Marisa Acocella Marchetto is a cartoonist for The New Yorker
and Glamour magazine. Her graphic memoir Cancer Vixen
was published by Knopf in the US (2006) and Fourth Estate in the UK
(2007).
Marisa, who was determined to be a cancer vixen rather than a victim,
has been awarded the Humanitarian Award for Breast Cancer Research. A
percentage of every copy sold is being donated to the Breast Cancer
Research Fund.