Bishakh SomBishakh Som is an Indian American trans femme visual artist and author. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Autostraddle, We’re Still Here, Beyond, vol. 2, The Strumpet, the Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Vice, the Broklyn Rail, Buzzfeed, Ink Brick, the Huffington Post, The Graphic Canon vol. 3, and Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream. She received the Xeric grant in 2003 for her comics collection Angel. Her graphic novel Apsara Engine (Feminist Press) is the winner of a 2021 L.A. Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel and a 2021 Lambda Literary Award winner for Best LGBTQ Comics. Her graphic memoir Spellbound (Street Noise Books) was also a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Read More Read Less