Arwen Donahue is a writer, artist, and cartoonist. Her illustrated memoir, Landings, chronicles a year on her family’s Kentucky farm, exploring the conflicts and symbioses between art and land stewardship. Her comics have been featured in The Field Guide to Graphic Literature, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Nib, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. In 2023, she was awarded the Cornish Fellowship from the Center for Cartoon Studies.
At MacDowell, Donahue finished 14 pages of artwork for her graphic memoir How I Met My Mother (working title). Excerpts from the memoir have appeared in Electric Literature (2023) and Literary Hub (2022), the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize.
