Yasmeen Abedifard

Yasmeen Abedifard is an Iranian-American cartoonist, illustrator and educator. She was born in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996 and is currently based in Oakland, CA.
Abedifard received an MFA from Cornell University. She is currently teaching in the Comics program at The California College of the Arts and the UC Berkeley Art Studio.
Among her published comics are When to Pick a Pomegranate (2024, Silver Sprocket) and Death Bloom (2023 Lucky Pocket), winner of the 2023 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic. Abedifard is also part of a comics collective called D.R.Y.

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