What’s In a Name? Leise Hook on What Her American and Chinese Names Reveal About Herself
From the Graphic Memoir Names and Faces
The following is from Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir by Leise Hook.
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From Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir by Leise Hook. Copyright © 2026. Available from Henry Holt and Co., an imprint of Macmillan.
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Leise Hook
Leise Hook is a cartoonist and illustrator who grew up in college towns in Michigan and Virginia, and previously worked in art museums in New York City and Beijing. Her work has appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, Catapult, and Spotlight PA and has been short-listed for a National Magazine Award and the Cartoonist Studio Prize. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. She currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with her husband and tabby cat.
