About Tory Woollcott

Tory Woollcott is an author, illustrator, designer and educator based in Toronto Canada, her works include autobiography, graphic novels, science comics, audio dramas, podcasts and kids books.

Her first graphic novel Mirror Mind recounts her experiences growing up with dyslexia. Her other works include the Audio Drama Awake with Sparklermonthly, Toronto to Tuscany a travel diary she did in partnership with Kean Soo. As well as a successful Kickstarter campaign to create the Tessera Oracle.

She is a graduate from the University of Toronto with an Honors BA in archeology and Near Eastern studies. 

She has appeared on CBC Radio's Metro Morning, Ontario Morning, and Canada AM, alongside a feature story by the Toronto Star. She has been a speaker at Word on the Street, Right to Read, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, as well as at the University of Toronto, was the cartoonist in residence for young voices TPL, and a variety of public schools and libraries around the city. 

Tory also runs comic making, writing, and literacy workshops and has done so with the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Public Library, Little Island Comics, The AGO and Story Planet to name a few.