Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer, trans author, a voracious reader, a kpop fan, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR and in eir other short comics, published by The New Yorker, The Nib, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies. GENDER QUEER won a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2020. It was also the number one most challenged book in the United States in both 2021 and 2022. Eir forthcoming book is SAACHI'S STORIES, written with Lucky Srikumar, due out from Scholastic Graphix in 2025. @redgoldsparks on instagram patreon.com/maiakobabe redgoldsparks.tumblr.com