Harvard English and the Korea Institute are proud to welcome comic book artist, illustrator, and adoptee activist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom to campus for a talk on creative writing, transnational adoption, activism, and mental health. Sjöblom is the author of the graphic memoir Palimpsest: Documents from a Korean Adoption.

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom was born in Busan, South Korea, and adopted to Sweden, where she grew up in a rural village in the north. She is a comic book artist, illustrator and adoptee rights activist. She's published two graphic novels about adoption. The first one, Palimpsest (2016), is an autobiographical account of the search for her Korean roots. The second one, The Excavated Earth (2022), is a documentary that follows Chilean adoptees who were stolen from their families and sold for adoption to Sweden. She is working on her third graphic novel, Invisible Lives, which deals with adoptees and mental health. She recently returned to Busan, where she lives with her partner, two children and a cat.