Marjorie Liu

Marjorie M. Liu is an American New York Times best-selling author and comic book writer. She is acclaimed for her horror fantasy comic Monstress, and her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels including The Hunter Kiss and Tiger Eye series. Her work for Marvel Comics includes NYX, X-23, Dark Wolverine, and Astonishing X-Men. In 2015 Image Comics debuted her creator-owned series Monstress, for which she was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series. In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for the first Monstress trade paperback collection. In July 2018 she became the first woman in the 30-year history of the Eisner Awards to win the Eisner Award for Best Writer for her work on Monstress.

Early life and education Liu was born in Philadelphia, and grew up in Seattle, Washington. Her father is Taiwanese, while her mother is an American of French, Scottish and Irish descent. She developed an early love of reading, from books such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Campbell, Charles de Lint and Jorge Luis Borges.

Liu graduated from Lawrence University with a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies and biomedical ethics in 2000.

After graduating, she attended the University of Wisconsin Law School. As a law student, she interned in Beijing working at the Foreign Agriculture Service at the U.S. Embassy, which at the time, was dealing with the Chinese government's new rules regarding the import of genetically modified food. She graduated in May 2003, and was soon admitted to the bar. She wrote a sequel to Tiger Eye, then produced A Taste of Crimson, the sequel to Liz Maverick's Crimson City, which was published in August 2005.

After seeing a little boy dressed as Spider-Man at a book convention in Tucson, Arizona, Liu told her former literary agent Lucienne Diver that she would enjoy writing for Marvel Comics. Diver, who knew a Marvel acquisition editor seeking authors for Marvel tie-in novels at Pocket Books, made inquiries. Pocket had already hired enough authors for the Spider-Man books, but they had not hired anyone to write tie-in novels for the X-Men. She served as co-writer on Marvel's Daken: Dark Wolverine with Daniel Way, and wrote the X-23 series, which ended with #21.

Liu wrote the final 21 issues for Marvel's Astonishing X-Men series with artist Mike Perkins from 2012 to 2013. The series received media attention for featuring Marvel Comics' first gay wedding between Northstar and longterm partner Kyle in issue #51 (August 2012). According to Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Axel Alonso, the issue comes as a response to real-world legalization of same sex marriage in New York. Liu was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in 2013.

In 2015, Liu taught a course at MIT on comic book writing and participated at the VONA/VOICES Workshop as guest lecturer at UC Berkeley for popular fiction.

In 2015 Image Comics debuted Liu's comics series, Monstress, which gained wide publicity for its exploration of racism, the effects of war, and feminism.

In July 2018 Liu became the first woman in the 30-year history of the Eisner Awards to win the Eisner Award for Best Writer for her work on Monstress. She shared the award with writer Tom King, who received it for his work on Batman books and Mister Miracle.

Writings Novels Dirk & Steele series

Hunter Kiss

"A Dream of Stone and Shadows" (Dirk & Steele noella) Sep 2006 Holidays are Hell|"Six" Jan 2007 Wild Thing n/a|n/a PEARL Award Best New Author

The Last Twilight|Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Best Shapeshifter Romance The Iron Hunt|Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Best Urban Fantasy

The Mortal Bone|Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Nominee Paranormal Romance Within the Flames|Romantic Times Book of the Year Editor's Choice 2012 The Mortal Bone|Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding 2013 Astonishing X-Men|GLAAD Media Award Outstanding Comic Book

Han Solo|Eisner Awards Best Limited Series

Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood|Hugo Award Best Graphic Story Monstress|Eisner Awards Best Writer

Monstress, Volume 3: Haven|Bram Stoker Award Best Graphic Novel Monstress, Volume 3: Haven|Hugo Award Best Graphic Story Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen|Bram Stoker Award Best Graphic Novel 2020 Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen|Hugo Award Best Graphic Story 2022 Monstress, Volume 6: The Vow|Hugo Award Best Graphic Story 2023 Monstress, Volume 7: Devourer''Hugo AwardBest Graphic Story