Yumi Sakugawa is an Ignatz Awards nominated comic book artist and author of I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You, Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe, and There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons. Her comics have appeared in BuzzFeed, The Believer, Bitch, The Best American Non­required Reading 2014, The Rumpus, Folio, Fjords Review, and other publications. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, Yumi lives in Los Angeles.