Raina Telgemeier
Cartoonist
Cartoonist who created the webcomic Smile (A Dental Drama). Scholastic Press's Graphix published it as a graphic novel in 2010.
She suffered a serious mouth injury in her youth and underwent years of orthodontic and dental work.
Her 2013 work Drama won a Stonewall Book Award.
She has a sister named Amara and a brother named Will. She married fellow cartoonist Dave Roman in the early 2000s.
She created graphic novel adaptations of several books in Ann Martin's young adult series The Baby-Sitters Club.