'Combustion'.
Ellen Sharp was born and raised in the South Eastern United States but left that area as soon as she could. Since then she's lived in a lot of places, including Austin, Iowa City, Seattle, and South Korea and Nicaragua. The early/ mid-1990s wave of alternative comics raised her interest in the medium, while Renee French's 'Grit Bath' and Julie Doucet's 'Dirty Plotte' made her realize that it was her professional future.
Much of Sharp's work is inspired by the bizarre folklore she's encountered abroad. Her stories have featured women who give birth to rats, men who sleep with centipedes, princesses who marry pigs, and monkey witches who puke out their souls.
Sharp lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she's completed a collection of Nicaraguan folklore and started an adaptation of the Popol Vuh, the human sacrifice-obsessed holy book of the ancient Mayans. Her work can be found in the literary journal Fence (stories like 'Centipede Girl'), on the site of USS Catastrophe (see her Korean folk tale, 'Nails') as well as on her old website, Lubricity Comics.
'Enchanted Pig'.