December Author Talk: Sophia Glock
Lower Level Conference Room
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Author and artist Sophia Glock discusses her YA graphic memoir, Passport, about growing up overseas -- and discovering that her parents work for the CIA.
Come learn about Sophia's creative process, and how she went from writing fairy tale comics to drawing a memoir of growing up internationally in a family full of secrets. She will discuss how she draws, writes, and mines her life for ideas for both long-form comics such as Passport, as well as shorter cartoons for publications such as The New Yorker. Sophia celebrates the power of comics as devices for deep connection and storytelling, and delves into how to develop a point of view when writing complicated personal histories.
This event is co-hosted with Bards Alley Bookshop. Copies of the author's book will be available for sale at the program or you can reserve copies by calling Bards Alley at 571-459-2653. A book signing will follow the author talk.
About the Book: Passport
Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of her life in America. Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret. They are not who they say they are; they are working for the CIA. As Sophia tries to make sense of this news, and the web of lies surrounding her, she begins to question everything. The impact that this has on Sophia's emerging sense of self and understanding of the world makes for a page-turning exploration of lies and double lives. In the hands of this extraordinary graphic storyteller, this astonishing true story bursts to life.
About the Author
Sophia Glock is a cartoonist and the author of the graphic memoir Passport as well as the forthcoming Before We Wake (February 2026). Her comics and cartoons have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Narratively, and Time Out New York. She currently lives and draws in Virginia.
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