Dr Sarah Lightman is a London-based artist, curator and writer. She attended Central/St Martin's and The Slade School of Art where she won The Slade Prize, The Coldstream Prize, and The Slade Life Drawing Prize. She has a PhD from University of Glasgow in women’s autobiographical comics. She has extensively published her research and her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Her first graphic novel, The Book of Sarah, will be published by Myriad in 2019. Sarah co-curated Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, an internationally touring exhibition of 18 comic artists, that opened at 9 museums over 6 years. She edited Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (McFarland 2014), that was awarded The Susan Koppelman Prize for Best Feminist Anthology (2015) and The Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly Publication (2015), an Association of Jewish Studies/Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Jews and The Arts (2016).