Gabrielle Drolet is a journalist, essayist, and cartoonist based in Montreal. She regularly contributes cartoons to The New Yorker and The Globe and Mail and has been a guest panellist on CBC Radio’s Commotion. This year, Drolet became the first woman to receive a National Newspaper Award nomination for Editorial Cartooning. Her written work has been published in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, VICE, Teen Vogue, and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays. Her essays on disability have been nominated for a Digital Publishing Award and won gold at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Drolet holds an MFA from the University of Guelph. Look Ma, No Hands is her first book.
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