Stan Yan

Stan is an award-winning, first generation American-born-Chinese, Denver-based writer, illustrator, caricature artist and instructor. He helped to co-found the Squid Works comic creator cooperative, and former co-Regional Advisor for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the  Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (RMC-SCBWI). He has taught sequential illustration at the Community College of Aurora and the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, and he is a co-founding professor of the CuddlefishAcademy.com kidlit art school. His critically-acclaimed late middle-grade graphic novel, THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG was a 2025 JLG Gold Standard Selection, and he is currently working on an unannounced middle-grade graphic novel series.