My name is Linda Kuo (she/her/她) and I live in Washington, DC. I am a Master of Social Work student and I have worked in early childhood programs, therapeutic recreation, and social science research. I am also a creative person, and this is mostly a space for my art projects (comics, bookbinding, zines)!

Linda creates comics, zines, and illustrations using primarily digital mediums to express personal experiences and explore the defenselessness and transformation that happens in close relationships. Her work is informed by an academic background in science, Chinese art, as well as scholarship in the humanities. Fictional forms of alchemy, ontology, and biochemical mechanisms are examined through a philosophy of interdependence and contemplation of (un)natural phenomena, monstrosity, primordial elements, and the life cycle of organisms. Linda’s comics are character-driven stories, shaped by histories and desires, such as the growing affection between a pair of water-chemistry post-baccalaureates and a snapshot of the friendship between a painter and a reluctantly artistic frame-creator. She also hosts local workshops on bookbinding and zine-making, to uplift artistic, material, and cultural practices in community settings.She has published comics with WildStar Press and JESSJESS Press, contributed zines to the National Museum of Women in the Arts Library, and is a member of a local figure drawing collective. As a graduate student in Social Work, Linda also collaborates with the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project in Washington, DC to lead healing spaces using creative approaches.