Dr Kremena Dimitrova is a socially engaged and interdisciplinary London based illustrator-as-historian. Her research, residencies, and interventions in the heritage sector often focus on co-creatively unearthing untold, hidden, forgotten, and marginalised narratives. Working with oral histories, folklore, archives, and artefacts, Kremena uses a mixture of artistic approaches such as text and images, creative writing and mapmaking, comics and character development - with a touch of humour and emotion - to bring history to life. Kremena experiments with photographic material and traditionally made textures, patterns, painted, drawn, and printed backgrounds, which she often combines into contemporary, yet nostalgic, digital collages. Kremena’s PhD at the University of Portsmouth titled “Runaway poetics: Mapping histories of migration through comics but not only”, conceptualised and trialled comics-as-maps-as-poetry as a comics-based research methodology for visualising histories of migration.