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Liana Finck is an American cartoonist and author. She is the author of Passing for Human and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
She has been an artist-in-residence at the New York Foundation for the Arts, Tablet, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center. She has also contributed to The Huffington Post, The Modern Golem, The Awl, and Catapult.
She regularly posts her drawings to her Instagram account, which has over 600,000 followers.
She drew the cover of the Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber single Stuck with U.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.
Her Graphic novel memoir Passing For Human was published in September 2018. Vogue described the book as "a bildungsroman about an artist trying to understand her lifelong compulsion to make art."
She published Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self, a collection of comics, in September 2019. In April 2022, Finck published Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation, a graphic novel which reworks the Book of Genesis and features a female God.
Let There Be Light was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.Deborah Dundas, "5 Canadians nominated for first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for women and non-binary writers, worth $150,000 (U.S.)". Toronto Star, March 8. 2023.
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