Maria Sweeney is a disabled Moldovan-born, United States-based freelance illustrator and comic artist. Her educational mini-comic, The Straw Ban won an Outstanding Submission for the 2019 Locher Memorial Awards. She writes and self-publishes comics relating to her experience of navigating the world with a rare disability. When she’s not reading or sketching comics, she’s snuggling with her tiny dog, Bambi.