About me
Emil Ferris is the author and artist of the acclaimed My Favorite Thing Is Monsters series. Among other honors, she has received multiple Eisner Awards, multiple Ignatz Awards, the Lambda Literary Award, the Grand Prix de la Critique ACBD, the Fauve d’or at FIBD, and the 2025 Whiting Award. She was recently appointed to the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters. She grew up in Chicago during the turbulent 1960s, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
