Karin Jervert is an artist, writer, and Mad activist. Her work includes essays, visual art, graphic narratives, and poetry and explores spirituality and spiritual emergence, nature, and the power of creative expression to transform trauma – particularly trauma experienced as a result of forced psychiatric treatment. She is the founder and teaching artist at Woodland Sunflower Collective. She has a graphic memoir, ‘Tea and Ten Thousand Things’ available here. Her study of Buddhism and improvisational comedy find their way into her work as well.