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American writer and journalist
Sarah Mirk
Mirk in 2019
Nationality American Alma mater
Grinnell College Occupation Journalist
Sarah Shay Mirk (she/they) is an author, zinester,
[1] and journalist based in
Portland, Oregon , in the United States.
Education
Mirk attended
Grinnell College , graduating in 2008.
[2]
Career
Cover of "Why Wikipedia Matters", Mirk's zine about
Wikipedia , 2022
She worked for the
Portland Mercury from 2008 to 2013.
[3] She has also written for Bitch Media.
[4] Since 2017 Mirk has been a contributing editor at
The Nib .
In 2019, they also undertook the enterprise of making one
zine a day,
[5]
[6] and she then compiled a hundred of them in a self-published book, Year of Zines (2020).
[7] They make their zines freely available to "anyone, especially teachers and educators".
[8]
Guantanamo Voices was a
New York Times pick for the Best Graphic Novels of 2020.
[9] Mirk also teaches a writing class for graduate students at Portland State University's Art + Design program.
Their comics have been featured in
The Nib ,
The New Yorker , Bitch , and
NPR .
Works
Articles
Books
Oregon History Comics (Know Your City, 2012. Small comic books about Oregon history. Available for free for non-commercial purposes on Mirk's official website.)
[10]
Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules (Microcosm, 2014)
[4]
Open Earth (Limerence Press, 2018. A queer sci-fi comic about
polyamory , with art by Eva Cabrera and Claudia Aguirre)
[11]
Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (
Abrams , 2020. Anthology of nonfiction comics)
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
[20]
Year of Zines (self-published, 2020)
[13]
Interviews
Nieman Reports - How comics can enhance reader engagement, bring new audiences to narrative nonfiction.
[21]
References
^ Ketcham, Amaris (2022-01-12).
"An Interview with Sarah Mirk" . Autobiographix . Retrieved 2023-11-16 .
^
"Exactly the Job She Wanted | Grinnell Magazine" . magazine.grinnell.edu . Retrieved 2020-10-22 .
^
"Articles by Sarah Mirk" .
Portland Mercury . Retrieved 2018-11-25 .
^
a
b Sabatier, Julie (September 10, 2014).
"Navigating Non-Monogamy" .
Oregon Public Broadcasting . Retrieved March 5, 2016 .
^ Paul, Constant (6 November 2019).
"Sarah Mirk is creating one zine a day, and she's bringing them to Short Run" . The Seattle Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-11-09 .
^ Joshua, Amberson (10 April 2019).
"Behind the Zines: Sarah Mirk is Making 365 Zines in 365 Days" . Riot Fest. Retrieved 2019-04-10 .
^ Kaplan, Avery (July 4, 2020).
"A Year of Free Comics: The many zines of SARAH MIRK" . Comics Beat . Retrieved December 8, 2020 .
^ Chamberlain, Henry (2020-05-23).
"Interview: Sarah Mirk, the World of Zines, and Visual Storytelling" . Comics Grinder . Retrieved 2020-12-08 .
^ Ed Park and Hillary Chute (9 December 2020).
"A New York Times pick for the Best Graphic Novels of 2020" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2020-12-09 .
^ Spitaleri, Ellen.
"Oregon history gets a little comic twist" . Retrieved 2020-12-19 .
^ Dieppa, Isabel Sophia.
"Erotic Sci-Fi Graphic Novel "Open Earth" Explores Polyamory In Space" . Bust .
^
"Guantanamo Voices (an excerpt)" . World Literature Today . Spring 2020.
^
a
b Dueben, Alex (July 30, 2020).
"Smash Pages Q&A: Sarah Mirk" . Smash Pages . Retrieved December 8, 2020 .
^ Acena, TJ.
"Portland writer Sarah Mirk's new illustrated book delves deep to tell the tales of lives in limbo at the prison built on the War on Terror" . Oregon ArtsWatch. Retrieved 26 August 2020 .
^ Lakshmi, Sarah.
"A New Graphic Novel Makes the Stories of Guantánamo Bay Visible" . KQED . Retrieved 12 September 2020 .
^ Wang, Amy (5 September 2020).
"Stories from Guantánamo get compelling comic-style treatment from Portland journalist" . The Oregonian/OregonLive. Retrieved 14 September 2020 .
^ Smith, Suzette.
"This New Graphic Novel Looks at Guantanamo Bay with Clear Eyes and a Sunset Palette" . Portland Monthly. Retrieved 2020-09-03 .
^ Sabatier, Julie.
"Portland author Sarah Mirk on 'Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison' " (audio interview). Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
^ James Amberson, Joshua.
"The Stories We Tell About Guantánamo" . Propeller Books. Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
^
"4 nuvolette con : Sarah Mirk - autrice di Guantanamo Voices" . ComixIsland (in Italian). 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2021-05-28 .
^ Erin, Polgreen.
"How comics can enhance reader engagement, bring new audiences to narrative nonfiction" . Nieman Reports. Retrieved 15 July 2014 .
External links
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(2016–2019)
2016:
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Chris Arnold ,
Uri Berliner ,
Neal Carruth ,
Heidi Glenn ,
Alyson Hurt ,
Avie Schneider ,
Lori Todd ,
John Ydstie ,
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2017:
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Kaitlin Roberts , Bruce Wallace
2018:
David Brancaccio ,
Katie Long ,
Nicole Childers ,
Ben Tolliday ,
Daniel Ramirez ,
Paulina Velasco
2019:
Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak ,
Liz Essley White ,
Joe Yerardi
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2020:
Najib Aminy ,
Fernando Arruda ,
John Barth ,
Jim Briggs ,
Andrew Donohue ,
Byard Duncan ,
Will Evans ,
Mwende Hinojosa ,
Esther Kaplan ,
Al Letson ,
Melissa Lewis ,
Katharine Mieszkowski ,
David Rodriguez ,
Kevin Sullivan ,
Taki Telonidis ,
Matt Thompson ,
Hannah Young ,
Rachel de Leon ,
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Jim Briggs ,
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Gabe Hongsdusit ,
Amy Julia Harris ,
Eren K. Wilson ,
Esther Kaplan ,
Al Letson ,
Katharine Mieszkowski ,
Sarah Mirk ,
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Claire Mullen ,
Brett Myers ,
Amanda Pike ,
David Rodriguez ,
Ike Sriskandarajah ,
Laura Starecheski ,
Kevin Sullivan ,
Matt Thompson ,
Shoshona Walter ,
Hannah Young ,
Narda Zacchino
2022:
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2023 (tie):
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2016:
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2017:
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2019:
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2022:
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2023:
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Emma Scott ,
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