Sarah Lightman is an award-winning fine artist, a curator and arts journalist.

She makes 'diary drawings' of her life, autobiographical drawings and texts of her life, that panel by panel form an ongoing graphic novel of her life.

She is researching a PhD at  The University of Glasgow  in  'Autobiography in Comics'. She has recently published in The International Journal of Comic Art and Studies in Comics. She has featured at Thought Bubble Comics Convention, and guest lectured at Roehampton University.

Sarah has been invited to present 'A Revealing Selection of Graphic Details, Confessional Comics by Jewish Women' at NorthEast Modern Languages Conference in Montreal, (www.nemla.org) with Michael Kaminer.  The complete show opens at The San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum in September 2010 and tours to The Koffler Center For The Arts, Canada, in April 2011.

Sarah is co-curating 'Drawing a Diary' with Dr. Kylie Cardell,  Lecturer of English Literature at Flinders University, South Australia,  at The International Auto/ Biography association at Sussex University featuring the work of Phillip Marsden, Isabel Greenberg, and Steve White.

Sarah co-founded "Laydeez do Comics" with Nicola Streeten, a monthly reading group open to all, that explores autobiography and domestic drama in graphic novels and comics. Sarah and Nicola are on the steering committee of UniComics Comics Festival held at The University of Hertfordshire in April 2010. They are hosting 'Comixs Box', and 'Family Diary and Comics Workshop.'

Sarah recently recorded interviews  about the 'Graphic Truth' project at  The Eastside Trust for 'Panel Borders' for Resonance FM.

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These are intensely private, personal, and deeply and touchingly honest drawings... As ‘diary drawings’ Lightman’s sketches work to both compress a larger lived experience into a fragmentary or momentary object or scene, and to hint at a concealed depth and context.

Introductory Essay to 'In Memoriam' by Dr Kylie Cardell, Lecturer of English and Creative Writing, Flinders University.

The overall impact is of powerful emotional snapshots of an interior life, lovingly and painstakingly rendered in a way that suggests the way craft and commitment can transform loss and grief, through the reflective process of drawing, into a basis for ongoing life, connection and commitment.

Review of 'In Memoriam' by Ariel Kahn, Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing, Roehampton University, published in The International Journal of Comic Art, Fall Edition 2009.