Rowan K. Briggs is an award winning graphic novelist and arts educator.
They began her comic-making career while pursuing her Masters at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art with a feminist re-imagining of the archetypal Hero Story, “Story(cycle)”. Their adaptation of “Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1” won the inaugural Elsinore Award for Graphic Shakespeare in 2016. Their work has been exhibited in both art galleries and colleges in Sweden, Scotland, Japan, and the United States.
An experienced art educator, Briggs lectured at their alma mater, Glasgow School of Art, The McManus Museum, and Dundee Contemporary Arts. They are currently a teaching artist for Fleisher Art Memorial and Spiral Q in Philadelphia and ARTFusion 19464 in Pottstown.
In 2018, Briggs moved back to the greater Philadelphia area, where they grew up. They live in West Philly with their cat Bruno and a growing book collection that will one day swallow them both.
Rowan K. Briggs 