YUMI SAKUGAWA (she/they) is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan-American interdisciplinary artist and the author of several books including I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU, YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE, THE LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE HACKS, and THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY TO MEDITATE.
Her comics have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, Bitch, The Best American NonRequired Reading 2014, The Rumpus, and other publications.
Her multimedia art installations have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, the Japanese American National Museum, and the Peabody Essex Museum.
A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she currently lives in Los Angeles.
Represented by Laurie Abkemeier at DeFiore Literary Company.