The Stanford Graphic Novel Project is a twenty-week course at Stanford designed to teach nonfiction research, visual storytelling, and long-form narrative structure to undergraduates through the collaborative creation of a graphic novel. The Stanford Graphic Novel Project cohort of 2018-2019 that wrote and illustrated Flying Kites is: Candice Kim, Katherine Liu, Lily Nilipour, Sarah Shourd, Lucy Zhu, Peter DiCampo, Danial Shadmany, Nik Wesson, Elena Kamas, Serena Zhang, Sharon Tran, Luke Soon-Shiong and (Michelle) Bae.