Briana Loewinsohn draws comic books and teaches high school art. She lives in Oakland, CA with her husband, daughter, and son, and is an avid gardener. After years of making mini-comics and daily journal comics, her first graphic novel, Ephemera, was published by Fantagraphics in 2023.

Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts between the life of a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a painted palette of warm earth tones, it is a quiet book of isolation, plants, confusion, acceptance, and the fog of childhood. Loewinsohn’s debut book is an aching, meditative twist on autobiography, infusing the genre with an ethereal fusion of memory an imagination.

Loewinsohn will read from her work and be interviewed by MFA Comics Chair and fellow cartoonist, Justin Hall, followed by a short reception and signing.

7-8:30pm – a reading and a conversation with Justin Hall at Timken Auditorium, 1111 8th Street 

8:30-10pm – a reception and signing at Hooper Atrium, 184 Hooper Street

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