Adoptee Book Club
Comic Artist, Writer, and Colorist Sarah Myer (They/Them) is an Eisner and L.A. Times Book Prize nominated author of the graphic memoir Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story (First Second Books), which is the 2024 ILA Young Adult NonFiction Winner, has received multiple starred reviews, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and was selected as a Kirkus Best Teen & YA Graphic Literature of 2023. Sarah is currently the illustrator and cover artist of several comic issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures, and was previously the colorist of TMNT vs Street Fighter and TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures comics, as well as a variant cover artist of TMNT Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen issues for IDW Publishing. In addition to Sarah’s published graphic novel and monthly comics work, they are the writer and illustrator of their independent webcomic Cheer Up, Michael! Sarah’s previous work includes Hello Kitty & Friends Coloring Book (VIZ Media), the Ringo Award Nominated Anthology Votes for Women: The Battle for the 19th Amendment (Little Red Bird Press) for which they wrote and illustrated the installment “Asian American Exclusion,” and the graphic novel Maker Comics: Create a Costume! (First Second Books). In addition to writing and illustrating comics, Sarah previously taught Foundation Studies courses at Savannah College of Art and Design for three years and has attended comic and anime conventions since 1999, exhibiting and selling their art at a variety of conventions since 2002. Sarah can be found at sarahmyer.net and on instagram @smyercomics
Past Events
Conferences
2024 AWP in Kansas City
(Re)Vision: Creating a Sustainable Writing Community
Tiana Nobile, Sarah Audsley, Tamiko Beyer, Dharani Persaud
Crafting Unforgettable Characters—a Writer’s Guide to Storytelling
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Jen Fawkes, Raul Palma, Matthew Salesses, Caroline Kim
How Book Reviewing is Changing and Why it Matters
Martha Anne Toll, Ericka Taylor, Tope Folarin, Alice Stephens
Vision & Re-Vision: Teaching Revision in University & Community Workshops
Sarah Browning, Maya Marshall, Matthew Salesses, Allison Joseph, Sara Henning
Collaborating in Korean: The Value of Co-Translating
Jack Jung, Jeanine Walker, Jaekwan Shim, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Michael Joseph Walsh
2023 AWP in Seattle
Off-Site Reading: Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Authors Showcase
Organized by Joshua Nguyen & Susan Nguyen with Sarah Audsley
They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets
Christine Kitano, Alycia Pirmohamed, Paul Tran, Manahil Bandukwala, Sarah Audsley
"Memory that Pricks the Skin": Five Asian Women Poets Writing About History
Marianne Chan, Cynthia Dewi-Oka, Jessica Stark, Emily Jungmin Moon, Tiana Nobile
Beyond BTS & Squid Games: Korean Contemporary Poetry in Translation
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Jeanine Walker, Stine An, E. Bok Lee, Emily Jungmin Yoon
Adoptee Representation Is a Human Rights Issue
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Alice Stephens, Ansley Moon, Sarah Audsley, Tiana Nobile
Uprooted/Unrooted: Adopted & Donor-conceived Poets Rewriting Family
Stacey Balkun, Lori Desrosiers, Lee Herrick, Leah Silvieus
2022 AWP (virtual)
“Who Are Adoptees and Who Has the Right to Write about Them?”
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus
2019 New Orleans Poetry Festival
“Adoptee Book Club: On Fostering Community and Kinship”
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, Tiana Nobile
2019 AWP in Portland
"Adopted Korean Women Writers: History Shapes Our Writing Journey"
Julayne Lee, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus, SooJin Pate, Kim Sunee
2018 Association of Asian American Studies in San Francisco
"Reclaiming the Adoption Narrative in Asian American Poetry"
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus