Leila Abdelrazaq (b. 1992, Chicago) is a Palestinian author, artist, and cultural organizer.
Leila’s debut graphic novel Baddawi (PM Press, 2015) was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards and has been translated into three languages. Her comic novella The Opening was published by Tosh Fesh (Beirut) in 2017. Leila’s creative writing, essays, short comics, and illustrated editorials have been published in Mophradat, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Funambulist, The Believer, Mizna, Harper’s, Kohl: A Journal For Gender and Body Research, The FADER, South Side Weekly, and others. She contributed a chapter on Palestinian futurist art and post-national imaginaries to the volume Palestine, Imprints and Visions: Approaches to Histories of the Future (Sharjah Art Foundation/The Palestinian Museum, 2025).
Leila has exhibited her work, participated in residencies, and given talks and workshops around the world. Her prints, zines, and artist books are housed in multiple public collections across Turtle Island and the UK. Leila has served as an invited guest editor for Mizna’s special Comix Issue as well as a juror for the 2018 Ignatz Awards. She co-founded Maamoul Press, an award-winning, transnational independent arts and publishing project dedicated to uplifting by-us-for-us storytelling in comics and book arts from SWANA communities and beyond.
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