By Amy Joust

Amy Joust (she/her) is an author-illustrator who studied creative writing at the University of Maryland.  For over 15 years, Amy has taught English to immigrant children and children of immigrants in Baltimore public schools. Her comics are inspired by the children of Baltimore: her students and her own two kids. In the late 1980s, a local study claimed that, “in Baltimore, there is rot beneath the glitter.”  Through her comics, Amy aims to show that there is also glitter beneath the rot. See more of her work on Tumblr and Instagram.