Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary queer cartoonist, a kpop fan, a voracious reader, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in Gender Queer: A Memoir and in eir short comics and writing published in The Nib, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR and Time Magazine. Maia’s second book is Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier and e is currently working on Saachi’s Stories, forthcoming in 2026 with Lucky Srikumar.