Education
2025 — Sequential Artists Workshop, Comics Certificate Intensive, Virtual
Courses: Drawing for Comics, Storytelling, Hidden History of Comics, Modern Comics, Depth and Details, Ideas and Vision, Comics Frontiers, Finishing Decisions, Markets Art & Practice
2022-2024 — City College of San Francisco, Continuing Education, San Francisco, CA
Courses: Basic Drawing, Figure Drawing, Photoshop, Creative Nonfiction
Publications
Comics
2025 (Forthcoming) — “Run Zareen Run,” How to Touch Grass Anthology, Power & Magic Press
2025 (Forthcoming) — “Burn On,” SAW Comics Anthology, Sequential Artists Workshop
2025 — “Boro Apu,” Solstice Literary Magazine: Summer 2025 Issue, Editor’s Pick
2024 — “Going Gluten Free,” Crucial Comix
2024 — “Fasting or No Fasting,” The Rumpus
2023 — “Direction to the Edge of the World,” B0ardside #07
2022 — “The Cancelled Collection,” The New Yorker
2022 — “Grand Re-Opening,” The New Yorker
2022 — “Student Flyer,” San Francisco Examiner
2022 — “Rainbow Washing,” Inglezine #02
2021 — “Do You Remember” (In Collaboration), The Nib
2021 — “Your Quarantine Wrapped” (In Collaboration), The New Yorker
2021 — “Ms. Pronunciation,” Awry Comics
Writing
2023 — “Your Driver Has Arrived,” Forum Literary Magazine
2023 — “South Asian Americana: The Immersive VR Experience,” McSweeney’s
2023 — “Fasting or No Fasting,” Interdisciplinary Writers Lab 2023 Chapbook
2023 — “Medical Board’s Recommendations for Doctors Who Don’t Know How to Diagnose Their Patients,” Greener Pastures
Shows & Exhibitions
Solo
2023 — Emerging Artist Showcase, Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2023 — Guest Cartoonist, Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
Group
2024 — Exhibitor, SF Zine Fest, San Francisco, CA
2023 — Summer in the Sunset Show, Sealevel, San Francisco, CA
2023 — Sunset Pride Show, Hunt & Gather, San Francisco, CA
2022 — Comics, Zines & Illustration Showcase, APAture, San Francisco, CA
2022 — UP in ARMS Show, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA
2022 — AAPI Artists Showcase, Babylon Burning, San Francisco, CA
Readings, Talks & Workshops
2025-present — Instructor, “Chronic Illness Comics Club,” Crucial Comix, Online
2024 — Speaker, Creatives in Residence Spotlight, The Ruby, San Francisco, CA
2023 — Speaker, The Forum Book Release, Medicine for Nightmares, San Francisco, CA
2022-2023 — Speaker, “Comix Remix” Reading Series, Silver Sprocket, San Francisco, CA
2022 — Guest Lecturer, “From Tech to Toons,” The Harker School, San Jose, CA
2022 — Panelist, “SPEAK! to the People,” Twitter Spaces, Online
Residencies & Honors
2023-2024 — Resident, The Ruby Creatives in Residence Program, San Francisco, CA
2023 — Selected Participant, Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, San Francisco, CA
2023 — Resident, St. Nell’s Humor Residency for Ladies, Williamsport, PA
2021 — Selected Participant, Cartoon Mentorship Program, Online
Professional Affiliations
2024-present — Member, Cartoonist Cooperative, Online
2023-present — Member, The Ruby, San Francisco, CA
2022-2023 — Member, National Cartoonists Society, Online
Press
2023 — Bowes-Mok, Vikki, “From Tech to Toons,” Harker Magazine.
2023 — Pandit, Pratibha, “New Yorker Cartoonist Shares Secrets to Successful Cartooning Freelance Work,” Career Calling Podcast.
2022 — LaCroix, Jeremy, “Meet the San Francisco Artists Who Turn the City’s West Side Into a Weekly Sketchfest,” The Frisc.
2022 — Brizard, Alex and Lian, Evan, “Flipping Out about the Bob's Burgers Movie with Zareen Choudhury,” Two Dudes Watch Cartoons Podcast.