Natalie Norris is a cartoonist, teacher, and comics librarian. She has taught and lectured about depicting trauma in graphic memoirs at the 2020 Graphic Medicine Conference, The Larner College of Medicine, the Sequential Artists Workshop, and the Center for Cartoon Studies where she graduated in 2020. Dear Mini (2023) is her first book. She currently resides in Vermont with her chihuahua-poodle rescue, Gwen.