About Arwen

Arwen Donahue is the author of the graphic memoir Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year (Hub City) and the oral history collection This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak (University Press of Kentucky). Her comics, essays and graphic stories have been featured in The Field Guide to Graphic Literature, Electric Literature, LitHub, The Nib, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has received grants and awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Xeric Foundation, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Kentucky Humanities Council, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. Arwen lives on a farm in Kentucky, where her family has raised produce for local markets for over 20 years.