Sara Gómez Woolley is an award-winning Latina illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY.

She has worked on a variety of exciting projects for clients including National Geographic, DC COMICS, Image Comics, Scholastic, Random House, and Parallax Press.  Sara’s most recent work, Pirate Queens, the Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas, was published by Nat Geo Kids and came out in 2022 to very positive reviews.

This fall, Sara was selected by the US State Department to represent our nation at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Alger (FIBDA), Algeria, Africa. She was a guest of honor, serving as a cultural ambassador and the head juror of an international cosplay (Costume Art) competition. This festival attended by over 130,000 people, is the largest of its kind in the Middle East or the African continent.

Sara’s ongoing personal project, a fictionalized graphic memoir written collaboratively with her mother and art partner Leila Gómez Woolley, Los Pirineos the mostly true memoirs of Esperancita Gómez, was singled out for award by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the largest Latino arts organization in the US. It is due for publication by Lee and Low Books in 2025.

Sara is tenured faculty of the Communications Design Department at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and the CUNY Graduate Center program for Biography and Memoir.  She is proud to serve the illustration community as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Society of Illustrators.