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Willow Wilson

Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel The Bird King(2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series Ms. Marvel (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world’s best-known superhero comic book series, including The X-MenSuperman, and Wonder Woman. Her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the PEN America Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle.

Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel The Bird King(2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series Ms. Marvel (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world’s best-known superhero comic book series, including The X-MenSuperman, and Wonder Woman. Her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the PEN America Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle.

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