Sara Barkat is an artist & writer, who loves things that are new and shiny almost as much as things that are old and shiny. Barkat is the illustrator of The Yellow Wall-Paper & The Colour Out of Space unabridged graphic novels; the editor of Earth Song: A Nature Poem Anthology; the writer of the short story collection The Shivering Ground, a finalist in the Indie Excellence Awards; and the creator of the ongoing comic strip The Sadbook Collections, the adventures of a stick-figure human.