Ebony Victoria Flowers is an American prose writer and cartoonist who lives in Denver. Flowers authored the graphic novel Hot Comb (2019), which contains several short story comics that are a mix of autobiographical and fiction.
She has been published in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
Accolades
Flowers is a recipient of the 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, won the 2020 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for Hot Comb, and won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Short Story for "Hot Comb".
Education
Flowers received her B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park (2002) in Applied Biological Anthropology, her M.S. and her 2017 PhD (titled 'DrawBridge' ) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Curriculum and Instruction.
References
- "Spring 2016 Contributors". Nashville Review. 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- "Shannon O'Circle Part One". Nashville Review. 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- ^ Bohlen, Teague (2019-06-18). "Denver's Ebony Flowers Debuts Graphic Novel Hot Comb". Westword. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- "DQHQ PR: Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers in Spring 2019". Drawn & Quarterly. 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- "'Little Lulu' Headlines Drawn & Quarterly's Spring 2019 Releases". Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- "D+Q announces 2019 releases at SDCC". Wow Cool. 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- Flowers, Ebony (2019-07-24). "My Lil Sister Lena". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- Flowers, Ebony (2020-09-08). "When Summer Reading Could Win You a Trophy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- Flowers, Ebony (2020-05-08). "My Last Encounter With Pandemic Parenting". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- Flowers, Ebony. "Lines". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2017". www.ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- "Ebony Flowers receives 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award". Wisconsin Alumni Association. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- "SPX 2020 Ignatz Nominees | SPX: The Small Press Expo". Archived from the original on 2021-06-30. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- Comic-Con 2020 Eisner Award Winners Announced, by Jamie Lovett, at ComicBook.com; published July 25, 2020 retrieved July 25, 2020
- "DrawBridge". ProQuest. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- Flowers, Ebony Victoria (8 August 2018). "DrawBridge" – via Open WorldCat.
External links
- Ebony Flower's Website
- Quotations related to Ebony Flowers at Wikiquote
- American women cartoonists
- American women writers
- 21st-century African-American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century African-American writers
- Living people
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education alumni
- The New Yorker cartoonists
- Eisner Award winners
- American cartoonists
- 21st-century African-American people