Leela Cor­man is a painter, edu­ca­tor, and graph­ic nov­el cre­ator, work­ing in the realm of dias­po­ra Ashke­nazi cul­ture and third-gen­er­a­tion restora­tive work. Her books include Unterza­khn (Schocken/​Pantheon, 2012), which was nom­i­nat­ed for the Eis­ner, the L.A. Times Book Award, and Le Prix Artemisia, and won the ROMICS Prize for Best Anglo-Amer­i­can Com­ic and the MoC­CA Award of Excel­lence, and the short comics col­lec­tions You Are Not A Guest (Field Mouse Press, 2023) and We All Wish For Dead­ly Force (Retrofit/​Big Plan­et, 2016). Her graph­ic nov­el Vic­to­ry Parade, a sto­ry about WWII, wom­en’s wrestling, and the astral plane over Buchen­wald, will be pub­lished by Schocken/​Pantheon in April 2024. Her short comics have appeared in The Believ­er Mag­a­zine, Tablet Mag­a­zine, Nau­tilus, and The Nib. She is a found­ing instruc­tor at Sequen­tial Artists Work­shop, and an instruc­tor at Rhode Island School of Design.