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Kate Evans is a British writer, cartoonist, multimedia artist and public speaker with 30 years’ experience. Her previous work includes the internationally acclaimed historical biography Red Rosa and the award-winning graphic reportage Threads from the Refugee Crisis. Patchwork is her eighth work of graphic non-fiction based on the quilt that Jane Austen created in the later years of her life. Kate Evans takes the fabrics of this patchwork coverlet and uses them to illustrate a beautiful, brilliantly immersive and compelling comic-book retelling of Jane Austen’s life. She patchworks together the narrative from Austen’s own words, seamlessly interweaving snippets from her letters and stories and tells her life story from the cradle to the grave, including riotously joyous comic excerpts of her novels.

Sarnath Banerjee has published five acclaimed graphic novels including Corridor, All Quiet in Vikaspuri and Doab Dil and is working on his sixth. He has shown his work at several Biennales and Art Fairs and has had solo and group shows in museums and centres of contemporary art across the world. He has also had public commissions, notably a series of billboards across London during the London Olympics titled the Gallery of Losers. He has taught at many respected institutions and written columns for national newspapers. He is the founder of the independent publishing house, Phantomville.

Pinaki De is a graphic designer-illustrator working for renowned publishers globally. Winner of the PublishingNext Prize and the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize, he has designed almost 600 book covers to date. A member of the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives, his layout designs of Ray’s books based on the archival manuscripts are an important contribution helping to preserve his legacy. A Charles Wallace Trust Fellow, his PhD is in comics theory. He is one of the editors of the prestigious comics anthology Longform, published by HarperCollins (2018) and PenguinRandom House (2022 and 2025), respectively. He is also the Indian comics advisor of Mangasia, the biggest-ever exhibition on Asian Comics curated by Paul Gravett for the Barbican, London. He juggles his creative work with a day job as an Associate Professor of English.