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Degrees

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • BA, University of Maryland College Park

Area(s) of Interest

  • Cartoonist
  • Educator
  • Fiction
  • Creative Non-Fiction

Courses taught at WFU

  • CRW 286: Making Comics
  • CRW 386: Advanced Fiction

Selected Books

  • Flowers, E. (under contract). Baltimore Brownfield. Montreal, Que: Drawn & Quarterly, 2027.
  • Flowers, Ebony. Hot Comb. Drawn & Quarterly, 2019.

Selected Publications & Illustrations

  • Meanwhile Time. In Buntin and Dinerstein Knight (Eds), Notes to New Mothers. (pps. TBD). New York, NY: Norton (Sept 2026).
  • We Collect Cans for Money. Shenandoah Literary Magazine (Spring 2025 Issue). https://www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/we-collect-cans-
    for-money/
  • A Sketch of Sunday. MoMA Magazine (2024). https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/1155.
  • Black Women in Cartoons: ‘PW’ Talks with Barbara Brandon-Croft. Publisher’s Weekly (2023). https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/bytopic/authors/interviews/article/91415
    -black-women-in-cartoons-pw-talks-with-barbara-brandon-croft.html
  • Pleasure Gardening with Tourmaline (illustrator). MoMA
    Magazine (2021). https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/576
  • 7 Questions, 75 Artists, 1 Very Bad Year (contributor). The
    New York Times (2021). https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/10/arts/artists-
    coronavirus-lockdown.html
  • When Summer Reading Could Win You a Trophy. The New
    York Times (2020). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/books/when-summer-
    reading-could-win-you-a-trophy.html
  • My Last Encounter with Pandemic Parenting. The New York
    Times (2020). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/arts/ebony-flowers-diary-
    project.html
  • On copying. In S. Kirtley, A. Garcia, & P. Carlson (Eds.), With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics (pp.85-91). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2020).
  • Virgin Hair. Scoundrel Time (2020). https://scoundreltime.com/virgin-hair/