Nate Powell

Nate Powell is the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978, he began self-publishing at age 14.

His work includes brand new memoir/essay hybrid SAVE IT FOR LATER, Eisner-nominated Ozark horror-fairytale COME AGAIN, civil rights icon John Lewis' legendary graphic memoir trilogy MARCH, TWO DEAD, YOU DON'T SAY, ANY EMPIRE, SWALLOW ME WHOLE, THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS, THE YEAR OF THE BEASTS, and Rick Riordan’s THE LOST HERO.

Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, the Walter Dean Myers Award, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN.

He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.