Sanika Phawde (She/Her/They) is an illustrator, educator, cartoonist and reportage artist, born and raised in India, and based in Boston. Through autobiographical comics, drawings on location, and illustrated interviews their work strives to capture and communicate instances of emotional connection, queer immigrant culture, familial tension and the deeper sentiments hiding in the heart of it. Her comic series “Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas” won the 2025 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series.