Biography
Maja Miłkowska-Shibata (Illinois) was born and raised in Poland. She is a public health professional and medical interpreter by training, using writing and art to share stories and perspectives. Over the past few years, she began seeking a deeper connection to humanity in her work, which led her to discover the field of graphic medicine, which uses comics to discuss health-related topics. Her comics have been featured in Sequential Artists Workshop Anthologies (2023, 2024), as well as in the journals The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (2023), Intima (2024), and Tendon (2025).