Dana Mashoian Walrath practices a border-crossing blend of creative writing, comics, art, and anthropology. Her books include Aliceheimer’s, a graphic memoir about her mother’s dementia journey; Like Water on Stone, a verse novel about the Armenian genocide; and The Book of Genocides, an interactive art installation turned disaster comic.
Her illustrated essays, comics, commentary, and poetry have appeared places like The Nation, The Lancet, Irish Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, on public radio, and in numerous edited volumes. She has shown her artwork in galleries and museums across North America and Eurasia and shared her thinking on the healing power of story through TEDx and more.
An Atlantic Fellow and Fulbright Scholar with work spanning the entire life cycle, other projects include the picture book I Am a Bird, a contribution to the anthology Menopause: A Comic Treatment (a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020 and Eisner Award Winner), and the libretto for the Aliceheimer’s chamber opera.
Her animation Between the Wall and the Sides was part of Collation 2 at The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg South Africa and she is collaborating with a South African team on a virtual reality animation related to The Book of Genocides.
At MacDowell, Walrath drew many pages for The Book of Genocides (under contract with Harvard University Press). She also created images for a virtual reality animation, Girl, Earth, Fire, Time funded by the Atlantic Institute that developed from this project. She received residencies from Hedgebrook in 2025 to complete this book and from The Centre for the Less Good Idea, also in 2025, to create a 2D animation Between The Wall And The Sides, which also grew from The Book Of Genocides.
