Stan Yan
Chinese-American Author/Illustrator of Graphic Novels
About Stan
Stan is an award-winning, first generation American-born-Chinese, Denver-based writer, illustrator, caricature artist and instructor. He helped to co-found the Squid Works comic creator cooperative, and former co-Regional Advisor for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (RMC-SCBWI). He has taught sequential illustration at the Community College of Aurora and the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, and he is a co-founding professor of the CuddlefishAcademy.com kidlit art school. His critically-acclaimed late middle-grade graphic novel, THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG was a 2025 JLG Gold Standard Selection and Crystal Kite Award Winner, and he is currently working on an unannounced middle-grade graphic novel series.
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