WOMEN IN COMICS – NONFICTION

CHARLIE JANE ANDERS is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books). Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and the young adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes: Stories and Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories, a book about how to use creative writing to get through difficult times. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, Lambda Literary Award, Crawford Award, and Locus Award. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. Anders is also the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for The Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

MARGARET STOHL is a New York Times bestselling novelist, comics writer, and game creator. Best known for the Beautiful Creatures series, Stohl has published 15 novels in 50 countries and 35 languages, and many Marvel comics, including The Life of Captain Marvel and Spider-Man Noir. As the co‑founder of the YALLFEST and YALLWEST book festivals, she continues to champion youth literacy and empower storytellers for all ages, in all formats. A longtime contributor to beloved game franchises ranging from Dune to Call of Duty, Stohl is the co-founder and CEO of Stone Kite, a (still in stealth) world-building studio. She co-wrote Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics (Gallery 13) with producer Judith Stephens and editor Jeanine Schaefer.