Rachel Lindsay

is a Burlington, Vermont based cartoonist. Her book, RX: A Graphic Memoir (2018), was the featured book for US National Network of Libraries of Medicine's mental health month 2019, and was included on the American Association of Medical Colleges' top ten summer reads list 2019.

She is also the creator of Rachel Lives Here Now, a comic strip about Vermont-centric themes, which runs every other week in Vermont’s alt-weekly newspaper Seven Days.

She has spoken about her work at the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Rounds, Harvard Medical School, The Miami Book Fair, the Toronto Comics Arts Festival, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, Mount Sinai Hospital's Icahn School of Medicine and other institutions and organizations interested in mental illness and comics, treatment and storytelling.

Her work can be seen on The New Yorker’s website, Spiralbound, Issue #4 of James Kochalka's Superf*ckers Forever series, The Ladybroad Ledger, and The Maple Key Comics Anthology.

She has a B.A. in American Studies from Columbia University.

Press & Reviews

• VPR Vermont Edition Interview RX (LISTEN)

• New York Magazine - “What is Graphic Medicine?”

• New York Magazine - “Rachel Lindsay’s RX Proves Comics are Perfect for Tackling Mental Health”

• BUST Magazine - “Five Boobs”

• Kirkus Reviews RX

• GraphicMedicine.org Review

• Hyperallergic Review RX

• Book Riot Review

• Intima Review

• Publisher’s Weekly Interview

• Seven Days Review RX

• Publisher's Weekly Review RX

• Mental Health Happy Hour (Listen)

• World Literature Today Interview

• Take Magazine Profile

• Seven Days "7 Local Artists to Watch 2017"

• VPR Weekly Conversation on the Arts (LISTEN)

• “Stuck in Vermont” (Watch)

• Time Lapse (Watch)

• The T (Watch)

• Seriously Seven Days (Watch)

• MCPHS & Harvard Lecture (Watch)

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