stef lenk is an artist and graphic designer from Toronto, Canada, who has been living in Berlin since 2010. She was a part of the »PathoGraphics« research team at Freie Universität Berlin from 2016-2021, and is currently scientific illustrator and graphic designer for BIFOLD, the »Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data« at Technische Universität Berlin. This cover entitled The Chaperone is the second one the artist has drawn for an issue of CLOSURE; she also drew and designed the cover for issue #7.5 on the theme of »Construction and Subversion of the Body in Comics«. Find out more about the artist on her website.