Marjorie Liu
Marjorie Liu
b. 19 Jun 1979 · From United States- Books
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Marjorie Liu is an American novelist and comics writer, born in Philadelphia and raised in Seattle. She studied East Asian Studies and Biomedical Ethics at Lawrence University and earned a law degree at the University of Wisconsin, and practiced law before writing full-time.
She is known for the Dirk & Steele and Hunter Kiss paranormal romance and urban fantasy series, for Marvel work including X-23, NYX, Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men, and for Monstress, the Image Comics series drawn by Sana Takeda.
In 2018 she became the first woman to win the Eisner Award for Best Writer, and the first Monstress collection won the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.
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Marjorie Liu is widely recognized for her work in comic books, particularly for her Eisner Award-winning series Monstress, which she co-created with Sana Takeda. She has also written for major comic franchises like X-23 and Astonishing X-Men.
The Monstress series should be read in the order of its collected volumes, starting with Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening. Each volume continues the overarching narrative, making sequential reading essential to follow the story.
Before her extensive work in comics, Marjorie Liu was a prolific author of urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels. Her early prose work includes series like the Hunter Kiss novels and the Dirk & Steele series.