Nate Powell is the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. An Arkansas native, Powell began self-publishing in 1992 at age 14. His work includes "Save It For Later", the "March trilogy" and its new follow-up "Run, Come Again", "Two Dead, Any Empire", "Swallow Me Whole", and "The Silence of Our Friends".

Powell’s work has also received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, and is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and is currently creating a graphic adaptation of James Loewen’s "Lies My Teacher Told Me" (2023) as well as his next solo graphic novel, "Fall Through" (2024).

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