Anna Sellheim was born in Washington, D.C. but currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD. She earned her MFA in comics from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2016. Sellheim’s work primarily deals with health, trauma, and the healing power of art and has been published by the Nib, Oni Press and Seven Days (Vermont’s Alternative Weekly Newspaper). She has also contributed to a number of anthologies, most notably Comics For Choice, an anthology of nonfiction comics about abortion that raised over $30,000 for the National Network Abortion Fund. Sellheim recently completed three years of being the Community Arts Collaborative Artist In Residence at the Refugee Youth Program (RYP), where she taught art and comics to refugee youth ages 5-21 throughout Baltimore City. She focused on guiding her students into creating their own healing art practices, while also using comics as an opportunity to solidify their English skills. One project of note, the RYP Zine, is an award-winning anthology created by her refugee students at Patterson High School. The sales of the initial print run raised over $1000 for the program. Anna Sellheim also guest- curated Infinite Possibilities: Art & Hope, an art show between Creative Alliance and RYP. She was a Sequential Artist Workshop (SAW) Teaching Fellow in 2025, and is now a teaching artist, teaching classes and workshops at SAW, the Baltimore Enoch Pratt Library System, Small Press Expo, and other locations.