Sage Coffey is a trans non-binary cartoonist living in Chicago, IL. They graduated from SCAD Atlanta with a Bachelor's in Sequential art and Animation. Since 2016 they've edited the Ignatz award nominated anthology Sweaty Palms, a comic anthology about anxiety and had helped co-organize Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) from 2019-2025.
Sage has been published by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Nib, and multiple award winning comics anthologies such as Comics for Choice and Be Gay, Do Comics. They've also done freelance work for Adult Swim, Wizards of the Coast, Cards Against Humanity, Def Jam Entertainment, Young Horses Games, We Testify, The Chicago Public Library and Kickstarter LLC.
Sage was a 2018 and 2019 John Locher award honorable mention, 2021 GLAAD Award Nominee for their work on BUGSNAX (nominated for Best Video Game) and 2025 GLADD Award Winner for their work in Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans. Illustrator on one of Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2021, I AM NOT A WOLF and 2025 Eisner Award, often referred to as the "Oscars of Comics", nominee for Abortion Pill Zine.