Susan Coyne is a writer and illustrator in New York (and sometimes other places). From 2016 to 2020, she contributed weekly illustrations to the podcast Open Source with Christopher Lydon, which airs on WBUR, Boston’s public radio station. Her illustration of James Baldwin for the show was featured in American Illustration. She has written and illustrated for Hyperallergic, Artnet News, Radcliffe Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Toast, Bowdoin Magazine, and Lenny Letter, among others.

In 2022, Coyne received a public arts grant from the Cambridge Arts Council to document older residents of the city through painting, video, audio and prose. That work is all gathered here. In the same year, Coyne exhibited paintings and writing in the “Women and Other Wild Creatures: Matrilineal Lines” exhibition at Sapar Contemporary art gallery in Manhattan.

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She has also designed merchandise and posters for Harvard Book Store, Brattle Theatre, and Radiotopia.

Coyne graduated in 2016 from the MFA: Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She was a 2016 recipient of an Alumni Scholarship from the School of Visual Arts. Her book The ABCs of Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm was featured in the 2017 Netflix movie The Incredible Jessica James and continues to have an enthusiastic readership. Her work was also included in the anthology Bad Drawings by Bad Women. Coyne graduated from Bowdoin College in 2007.

Past Coyneworks Newsletters for your perusal:

Summer 2022
Fall 2020
Fall 2019
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
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