Leise Hook is a cartoonist and illustrator who grew up in college towns in Michigan and Virginia. She previously worked in art museums, including Asia Society Museum in New York.
Hook is the author of the graphic memoir Names and Faces. Her work has appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, Catapult, and Spotlight PA and has been shortlisted 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.
