Leslie Absher’s new memoir Spy Daughter, Queer Girl isn’t a story about secrets, but rather a testament to what happens when one commits to unwinding those secrets. The very nature of memoir is to reveal and make vulnerable—which is a perfect subversion of another type of work: spying for the CIA.
Author: Sophia Glock
Sophia Glock is a cartoonist who lives in Austin, Texas. Her graphic memoir, Passport, was published by Little Brown Young Readers in 2021. Glock's comics and cartoons have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Narratively and Time Out New York. Her work has also been featured in various anthologies including, Ink Brick, Digestate and The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1. Her collection of comics "Born, Not Raised" was selected to be included in The Society of Illustrators Cartoon and Comics Art Annual 2016, and her short comic "The Secrets in My Mother's Nightstand" was shortlisted for The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year in 2016.