Com­ic by Emi­ly Bowen Cohen

Emi­ly Bowen Cohen cre­ates comics that explore inter­sec­tion­al iden­ti­ty. She is Jew­ish and a mem­ber of the Musco­gee (Creek) Nation. She uses per­son­al expe­ri­ence to tell sto­ries that exam­ine con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can and Jew­ish cul­ture. Emi­ly grew up in rur­al Okla­homa and spent her teenage years in sub­ur­ban New Jer­sey. She grad­u­at­ed from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty and cur­rent­ly lives in Los Ange­les, California.