Kayla E.

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Kayla E. is a Texas-born artist of Mexican-American descent. Her comics practice centers around her childhood and functions as a map-making exercise. Leaning heavily on the fixed compositional structure and aesthetic codes of post-war American comics, she imposes order onto recollections once disorganized by intrafamilial abuse, addiction, and sexual violence. Her textile work and painting practice are concerned with memories that present as unmappable. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University, where she was awarded the Albert Alcalay Prize in Visual Arts and currently works as creative director at Fantagraphics. As a public speaker, E. has been invited to expand on her practice at universities and creative conferences across the country. For the past few years, she has worked out of her downtown attic studio in rural North Carolina, where she lives with her wife, Laura Bullard. She will be using her time as a Hodder Fellow to expand her experimental comics and fine art practice, which includes the completion of Precious Rubbish, her forthcoming graphic memoir (Fantagraphics, 2025).

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