MARIA SWEENEY is a Moldovan-born, United States-based freelance illustrator and comic artist. She graduated magna cum laude from Moore College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration. Her educational mini-comic, The Straw Ban, won an Outstanding Submission for the 2019 Locher Memorial Awards. She writes and self-publishes comics relating to her experience of navigating the world with a rare disability. She lives on the east coast.
