Education
University of Virginia.
University of Virginia.
Her work appears on the websites Daily Kos, National Public Radio, Medium, Politico, and AlterNet. In Mississippi Magazine, The Progressive, and The Nation. And in over 20 alternative newsweeklies throughout America.
Raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sorensen enrolled in the University of Virginia, where she drew a daily comic strip, Li"l Gus, for its student newspaper, University Journal, from 1994 to 1995, as well as contributing to the satirical magazine The Yellow Journal.
Sorensen soon became published in various comic anthologies, including Action Girl and the Big Book of the 70"son She published her own book, Slowpoke Comix #1, in 1998.
In 1999, one year after the book was published, Slowpoke became a weekly comic strip. As of 2012 the strip goes simply by her own name, though a few alternative weekly papers continue to use the Slowpoke name.
Sorensen has published three volumes of cartoons: Slowpoke: Café Pompous from 2001, Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers from 2004 and her latest book, Slowpoke: One Nation Oh My God! published in 2008.
She has written and illustrated a number of long-form comics, most notably a piece on health care reform commissioned by Kaiser Health News, and a synopsis of Jane Austen"s Pride and Prejudice for National Public Radio. She has been interviewed by the Washington Post as well as the University of Virginia Magazine. The latter web article has a video of Sorensen working. She also writes a political weblog on her site.
Besides her weekly political cartoon, she has produced illustrations for such periodicals as Nickelodeon Magazine, The American Prospect, The Dallas Observer, Women"s Review of, and MAD Magazine.