Yao Xiao is a cartoonist and illustrator living in New York. Yao was born in China and moved to the United States in 2006. After graduation with a degree in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts, Yao documented her experiences as a queer immigrant in and developed a series of comics incorporating illustration and writing. Her debut graphic novel, Everything Is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid was published by Andrews McMeel in 2020 and has received praise by Publishers Weekly and Ms. Magazine. Her work has been nominated for the Ignatz Award and recognized by the Society of Illustrators.
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Taste, Memory
“I can tell I love you because I want to give you a bite of whatever I’m eating.”
Every Flavor a Ghost: A Comic
Sometimes even just a minor taste of something brings old ghosts back to me.
Falling: A Comic
I found it freeing: to accept—instead of fear—gravity, to savor that brief float before the fall.
