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American writer and journalist

Sarah Mirk

Portrait of a white woman with blonde hair. She is wearing a black beanie and a jean jacket.

Mirk in 2019

Nationality American
Alma mater Grinnell College
Occupation Journalist

Sarah Mirk (she/they) is an author and journalist based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

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Education [ edit ]

Mirk Attended Grinnell College, Graduating in 2008. [first]

Cover of “Wikipedia Matters”, Mirk’s Zine about Wikipedia,

She worked for the Portland Mercury from 2008 to 2013. [2] She has also written for Bitch Media. [3] Since 2017 Mirk has been a contributing editor at The Nib.

In 2019, they also undertook the enterprise of making one zine a day, [4] [5] and she then compiled a hundred of them in a self-published book, Year of Zines (2020) . [6] They makes their zines freely available to “anyone, especially teachers and educators”. [7]

Guantanamo Voices was a New York Times pick for the Best Graphic Novels of 2020. [8] Mirk also teaches a writing class for graduate students at Portland State University’s Art + Design program.

Articles [ edit ]

Books [ edit ]

  • Oregon History Comics (Know Your City, 2012. Small comic books about Oregon history. Available for free for non-commercial purposes on Mirk’s official website.) [9]
  • Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules (Microcosm, 2014) [3]
  • Open Earth (Limerence Press, 2018. A queer sci-fi comic about polyamory, with art by Eva Cabrera and Claudia Aguirre) [ten]
  • Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (Abrams, 2020. Anthology of nonfiction comics) [11] [twelfth] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
  • Year of Zines (self-published, 2020) [twelfth]

Interviews [ edit ]

  • Nieman repairs – How comics can enhance reader engagement, bring new audiences to narrative nonfiction. [20]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ “Exactly the Job She Wanted | Grinnell Magazine” . Magazine.grinnell.edu . Retrieved 2020-10-22 .
  2. ^ “Articles by Sarah Mirk” . Portland Mercury . Retrieved 2018-11-25 .
  3. ^ a b Sabatier, Julie (September 10, 2014). “Navigating Non-Monogamy” . Oregon Public Broadcasting . Retrieved March 5, 2016 .
  4. ^ Paul, Constant (6 November 2019). “Sarah Mirk is creating one zine a day, and she’s bringing them to Short Run” . The Seattle Review of Books . Retrieved 2019-11-11-09 .
  5. ^ Joshua, Amberson (10 April 2019). “Behind the Zines: Sarah Mirk is Making 365 Zines in 365 Days” . Riot Fest . Retrieved 2019-04-10 .
  6. ^ Kaplan, Avery (July 4, 2020). “A Year of Free Comics: The many zines of SARAH MIRK” . Comics Beat . Retrieved December 8, 2020 .
  7. ^ Chamberlain, Henry (2020-05-23). “Interview: Sarah Mirk, the World of Zines, and Visual Storytelling” . Comics Grinder . Retrieved 2020-12-08 .
  8. ^ Ed Park and Hillary Chute (9 December 2020). “A New York Times pick for the Best Graphic Novels of 2020” . The New York Times . Retrieved 2020-12-12-09 .
  9. ^ Spitaleri, Ellen. “Oregon history gets a little comic twist” . Retrieved 2020-12-19 .
  10. ^ Dieppa, Isabel Sophia. “Erotic Sci-Fi Graphic Novel “Open Earth” Explores Polyamory In Space” . Bust .
  11. ^ “Guantanamo Voices (an excerpt)” . World Literature Today . Spring 2020.
  12. ^ a b Dueben, Alex (July 30, 2020). “Smash Pages Q&A: Sarah Mirk” . Smash Pages . Retrieved December 8, 2020 .
  13. ^ Waves, TJ. “Portland writer Sarah Mirk’s new illustrated book delves deep to tell the tales of lives in limbo at the prison built on the War on Terror” . Oregon ArtsWatch . Retrieved 26 August 2020 .
  14. ^ Lakshmi, Sarah. “A New Graphic Novel Makes the Stories of Guantánamo Bay Visible” . KQED . Retrieved 12 September 2020 .
  15. ^ Wang, Amy (5 September 2020). “Stories from Guantánamo get compelling comic-style treatment from Portland journalist” . The Oregonian/OregonLive . Retrieved 14 September 2020 .
  16. ^ Smith, Suzette. “This New Graphic Novel Looks at Guantanamo Bay with Clear Eyes and a Sunset Palette” . Portland Monthly . Retrieved 2020-09-03 .
  17. ^ Sabatier, Julie. “Portland author Sarah Mirk on ‘Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison’ ” (audio interview). Oregon Public Broadcasting . Retrieved 2020-09-08 . {{cite web}} : CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ James Amberson, Joshua. “The Stories We Tell About Guantánamo” . Propeller Books . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
  19. ^ “4 clouds with: Sarah Mirk – Author of Guantanamo Voices” . ComixIsland (in Italian). 2020-09-19 . Retrieved 2021-05-28 .
  20. ^ In it, polgreen. “How comics can enhance reader engagement, bring new audiences to narrative nonfiction” . Nieman Reports . Retrieved 15 July 2014 .

External links [ edit ]

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