I’m a writer and cartoonist, though for the last few years I’ve mostly been cartooning.

My graphic memoir about my mother dying of Alzheimer’s, Tangles, was published by Freehand Books (Canada) in September 2010 and will be published by Jonathan Cape (UK/Commonwealth) in November 2011 and Skyhorse Publishing (US) in May 2012. More about Tangles (reviews, awards, readings, etc)…

I have published comics, fiction and non-fiction in magazines, newspapers and a number of anthologies, including Nobody’s Mother (Heritage 2006) and Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press 2009).

My agent is Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Literary Agency.

Photo by Teri Snelgrove

All art on this website by Sarah Leavitt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.