Ebony Flowers
Illustration — Ebony Flowers speaking at the Small Press Expo in November 2019. 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.
Ebony Flowers
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- University of Wisconsin–Madison
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- Ignatz Award · Eisner Award for Best Short Story · Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent
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Illustration — Ebony Flowers speaking at the Small Press Expo in November 2019. 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.
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She has been published in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
Flowers is a recipient of the 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, won the 2019 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for My Lil Sister Lena and the 2020 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for Hot Comb, and won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Short Story for "Hot Comb".
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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.
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Ebony Flowers is recorded as having received Ignatz Award, Eisner Award for Best Short Story and Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent. Formation and teaching. Flowers studied at University of Wisconsin–Madison. The record notes the qualifications doctorate and Master of Science.
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- 1.Spring 2016 Contributors. Nashville Review. 2016-03-12.
- 2.Shannon O'Circle Part One. Nashville Review. 2016-03-28.
- 3.Bohlen, Teague. Denver's Ebony Flowers Debuts Graphic Novel Hot Comb. Westword. 2019-06-18.
- 4.DQHQ PR: Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers in Spring 2019. Drawn & Quarterly. 2018-05-08.
- 5.'Little Lulu' Headlines Drawn & Quarterly's Spring 2019 Releases.
- 6.D+Q announces 2019 releases at SDCC. Wow Cool. 2018-07-20.
- 7.Flowers, Ebony. My Lil Sister Lena. The Paris Review. 2019-07-24.
- 8.Flowers, Ebony. When Summer Reading Could Win You a Trophy. The New York Times. 2020-09-08. 0362-4331.
- 9.Flowers, Ebony. My Last Encounter With Pandemic Parenting. The New York Times. 2020-05-08. 0362-4331.
- 10.Flowers, Ebony. Lines. The New Yorker.
- 11.The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2017. www.ronajaffefoundation.org.
- 12.Ebony Flowers receives 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Wisconsin Alumni Association.
- 13.Chiu-Tabet, Christopher. 2019 Ignatz Awards Winners Announced. Multiversity Comics. September 15, 2019.
- 14.SPX 2020 Ignatz Nominees SPX: The Small Press Expo.
- 15.Comic-Con 2020 Eisner Award Winners Announced, by Jamie Lovett, at ComicBook.com; published July 25, 2020 retrieved July 25, 2020
- 16.DrawBridge. ProQuest.
- 17.Flowers, Ebony Victoria. DrawBridge. 8 August 2018.
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