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Elise Dietrich has been making autobiographical and memoir comics since 2016. Her work draws on the everyday — parenthood, travel, craft, memory, and the particular experience of moving between cultures — rendered in an intimate, diary-comics style that invites readers into the texture of a life in progress.

Her minicomics include Key West Diary, a five-day travel diary that finds magic and difficulty in equal measure; Birth Story, made in four days at the Center for Cartoon Studies; Making Time, a Kickstarter-funded collection of diary comics about creative practice; and the Grandes Expectativas series, which explores her relationship with Brazil and her own mixed identity.

Elise holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from Tulane University and has spent years teaching and translating — but comics is where she does her most alive work. She lives with her family in Warren, Rhode Island, and co-organized Paper Beach, an indie comics fair in Providence. She has tabled at Small Press Expo (2022–2025), the Non-Fiction Comics Festival (2023–2024), Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (2018, 2023), Denver Comics and Arts Festival (2023), and CAKE Chicago (2019).

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"This is just a gem of a comic, the kind that puts a smile on your face even when the subject matter gets a little tough at times, and it's a polished and sparkling one thanks to Dietrich's superb narrative and visual choices." — Ryan C., Four Color Apocalypse

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