Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Diego Rivera and Goya's The Disasters of War. She is the author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received global praise and attention. Crabapple's reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She is a fellow at the New America Foundation, and has previously been the 2019 artist-in-residence at NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Brooklyn Library's 2018 Katowitz Radin Artist-in-residence, and a Yale Poynter Fellow. She is currently a New America 2020 Fellow and a 2020 Bard Fellow at the Brooklyn Public Library. She got her start as a journalist sketching the front lines of Occupy Wall Street, before covering, with wo