Leela Corman studied painting, printmaking and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art.  Her book Queen’s Day  earned her a Xeric Award in 1999 and was called “music to my eyes” by Scott McCloud.  She has created two more graphic novels including her latest, Unterzakhn, published by Schocken/Pantheon. She has illustrated books for major publishers on crafts, fashion, gardening, dating and other topics, and for clients such as The New York Times, New York Press, BUST Magazine, Thirteen/WNET, and many more.  She is also an accomplished bellydancer and bellydance instructor.  Corman and her husband, Tom Hart, are the founders of The Sequential Artists Workshop, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prosperity and promotion of comic art and artists, offering instruction in comic art, graphic novels and visual storytelling in vibrant Gainesville, Florida, where she is also an adjunct instructor at University of Florida. 


Her graphic novel Unterzakhn, published in 2012 by Schocken/Pantheon, has been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award, The Eisner Award, and Le Prix Artemisia, and won Le Prix Millepages 2012.


Leela is represented by Wales Literary Agency for her comics, and ArtrepNYC for her illustrations.