MariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir KISS & TELL: A ROMANTIC RESUME, AGES 0 TO 22, DRAGON'S BREATH AND OTHER TRUE STORIES, TURNING JAPANESE and her self-published Estrus Comics. Her work has appeared in more than fifty anthologies, including I SAW YOU: COMICS INSPIRED BY REAL LIFE MISSED CONNECTIONS, CHEERS TO MUSES: CONTEMPORARY WORKS BY ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN, NO STRAIGHT LINES, QU33R and ACTION GIRL COMICS. Her comics and essays have been featured in The Rumpus, The Weeklings, LA Review of Books, Truth-out, SFBay.CA, The Comics Journal, The Bay Citizen, XOJane and more.

 

MariNaomi's artwork has been featured in such venues as the De Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco's Asian American Museum and the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles. In 2011, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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