Shaun Levin is a writer and book artist whose work explores how inherited stories shape identity, memory, and belonging. His practice examines narratives of survival, violence, migration, and the pressures they exert on the self. He is the author of Seven Sweet Things, Alone with a Man in a Room, and Snapshots of The Boy, amongst other books.
Around 2012, as an experiment, he began making illustrated and book-based work under a pseudonym, exhibiting internationally at events including the New York Art Book Fair and the London Art Book Fair. His artists’ books are held in the special collections of Harvard Library, the University of Delaware Library, and the Universities of California at Irvine and Santa Barbara. Born in South Africa, he has lived in Israel, London, and now Madrid. He has taught creative writing for over twenty years, runs online creative writing courses on Domestika, and is the creator of Writing Maps.
Across text and image, his work treats repetition as a form of movement toward insight, and the book as a site of encounter where inherited narratives can be questioned, reimagined, and gently undone.
