The novel is a memoir of her immigrant experience coming to the US as a fourteen-year-old girl. Her work has been published in several collections of short stories that include heavy “Metal Magazine,” “Secret Identities,” “Marvel Comics,” and “The Strumpet.” She published her first graphic novel “Almost American Girl” in 2020. Some of the biggest influences were the work s of Mike Mignola and David Mazzucchelli in the “Sandman” comics and series and French works such as “Kerascoet” and “Mobius.” Once he graduated with a BFA in Illustration from RISD, she moved to New York and started working as an illustrator for several fashion publications. As a student at RISD studying illustration, she was introduced to European and American comics and some of these would influence her later work. She had always been a lover of comics ever since she was a child but this was heightened when she went to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Robin Ha is a comic and graphic book author that was born in Seoul Korea but moved to the US as a fourteen-year-old.
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