Sierra Barnes is a historian-turned-comic-creator who currently lives in Washington, DC, making webcomics and print comics based on history and folklore. After graduating with a BA in History specializing in Central and Eastern Europe and Germanistik from the College of William & Mary, she spent a year in the town of Baumgartenberg, Upper Austria teaching English on a Fulbright Scholarship and taking the time to do research for what would eventually become Hans Vogel is Dead. She has a MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts.