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Ebony Victoria Flowers is an American prose writer and cartoonist who lives in Denver. Flowers authored the graphic novel, ''Hot Comb,'' which contains several short story comics that are a mix of autobiographical and fiction. She has been published in ''The Paris Review', The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker'.''


Accolades

Flowers is a recipient of the 2017
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award was ...
s, won the 2020 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for ''Hot Comb','' and won the 2020
Eisner Award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are named in ...
for Best Short Story for "Hot Comb."Comic-Con 2020 Eisner Award Winners Announced
by Jamie Lovett, at ComicBook.com; published July 25, 2020 retrieved July 25, 2020


Education

Flowers received her B.A. from the
University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...
(2002) in Applied Biological Anthropology, her M.S. and her 2017 PhD (titled '' 'DrawBridge' '') from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...
in Curriculum and Instruction.


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External links


Ebony Flower's Website
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