About Leela Corman

Leela Corman

Leela Corman is a painter, educator, and graphic novel creator. Her books include Unterzakhn (Schocken/Pantheon, 2012) and the short comics collections We All Wish For Deadly Force (Retrofit/Big Planet, 2016) and You Are Not A Guest (Field Mouse Press, 2023). Her graphic novel Victory Parade, a story about WWII, women’s wrestling, and the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, will be published by Schocken/Pantheon in 2024. Her short comics have appeared in The Believer Magazine, Tablet Magazine, Nautilus, and The Nib. She is a founding instructor at Sequential Artists Workshop, and an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design.

Author photo is (c) Dena Rosenberg.