but… is it comics?

Erin Williams is a writer, illustrator, and educator whose recent work explores the intersections of the body, desire, illness, and absence.

She is the author or co-author of twelve books, including Commute: an illustrated memoir of women’s shame, and What’s Wrong?, a chronicle of chronic pain, medicine, and the stories we’re allowed to tell. Her work appears in MoMA Magazine, The Believer, Buzzfeed, Virginia Quarterly Review, HuffPost, and more.

Erin holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College, a BA from NYU's Gallatin School, and completed post-baccalaureate studies in science at Brooklyn College. She has taught at Hunter College and Parsons School of Design, and frequently lectures on writing, art, and health humanities.

She lives in New York and offers manuscript consultations for writers working in creative nonfiction, hybrid forms, and graphic narrative.

is it comics? updates weekly with fresh illustrated content about the horrors of dating over 40, the joys of long-term sobriety, and occasionally morbid reflections on midlife clownery.