Lenora Yerkes is a narrative artist and illustrator.

Her narrative drawings were the subject of her 2019 artist residency at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, her 2020 residency with Short Run Seattle, and recognized by a 2020 Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her comic “Rage Queen” was included in Drawing Power (Abrams ComicsArts Fall 2019), edited by Diane Noomin, an anthology named by the New York Times one of the best comics of 2019. She is a graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she was a Yozo Hamaguchi Scholar.

She’s illustrated for Counter Culture Coffee, Stanford Business School, Seesaw, and Clayful Health, among others. When she’s not drawing, she is gardening, biking, or learning a new skill.