bio

Tahneer Oksman (she/her) is a writer, teacher, and scholar. She is author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Columbia University Press, 2016), and co-editor of The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself(University Press of Mississippi, 2019), which won the 2020 Comics Studies Society (CSS) Prize for Best Edited Collection. Her most recent co-edited collection is Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology. She writes regularly about comics, graphic novels, and memoir, most recently for NPR, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.