Ashlin Sara Paul is an art practitioner and independent researcher, whose creative journey is in the interconnection of literature and art, through mediums like graphic narratives and comics, zines, cut-up texts, and interdisciplinary studies. Their work is centered on comic journalism, queer representation in graphic narratives, and the history of Indian comics. Ashlin completed their MFA in History of Art from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan (2022- 2024), and their MA in English from The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad (2019-2021). Currently, Ashlin is a Project Coordinator of Explorations (Art Practice), a Foundation Project implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), which involves experiments in the making of a graphic narrative in mixed-media book form by collecting women and queer individuals’ personal experiences of gender biases in healthcare, accessibility to public toilets, and the social stigmas surrounding it. They are one of the recipients of Kerala Lalitakala Akademi’s Scholarship for Art Students (2024), co-curated the group exhibition “Nakshi: Eclectic Realms of Creation”, at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata (2024), participated and exhibited their zine in TEXTXET workshop held at Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), New Delhi in 2023. They also work as a book illustrator, having illustrated several books such as Thulir’s Stroll (2024), Guardians of the Forest (2023), Myth of the Wild Gaur (2022), After Hours (2022), Eye Am in Denial (2021) and Nimishaardhangal (2019).