Leela Corman

[1] Corman created the 2012 graphic novel Unterzakhn, which follows the lives of Jewish twin sisters growing up in the tenements of New York City's Lower East Side at the turn of the last century.

[7] She was also an adjunct professor at the University of Florida's College of Fine Arts and a founding instructor at Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville.

[14] Unterzakhn is Corman's second graphic novel and uses simplistic black and white drawings to illustrate the lives of twin Jewish girls in the turn of the last century in the lower east side of New York.

[6] Reviewer Laura Dattaro writes that, "The book is a sweetly sad story, illustrating the difficulty of life in the early 20th century as seen through the narrow eye of a specific subculture.

"[3] Columnist Joe Gross reviews Unterzakhn as, "A haunting and often heartbreaking look at Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century... is also a story about women, power and bodies.

[5] For her 2012 graphic novel, Unterzakhn, Corman earned a Le Prix Millepages award and best Anglo-American comic at Rome Festival.