Comic writer Gail Simone worked for years on Birds of Prey, Batgirl, and Wonder Woman, for whom she was the series’s longest-running writer. She was the first female writer to take over the Birds of Prey series after its initial run and created the character of Huntress as well as Alysia Yeoh, one of the first major transgender comic book heroes.
Marjane Satrapi’s masterpiece Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran
Award-winning, No. 1 New York Times best-selling author
Yolanda Vargas Dulché, a storyteller and playwright, has been one of the most widely read writers in Mexico.
Creator of the 1940s comic superhero Miss Fury
Samira Ahmed is the author of “Love, Hate & Other Filters,” “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” and “Internment.”
Ngozi Ukazu is the creator of “Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey” (First Second), an online graphic novel whose printing campaign remains the most funded web comics Kickstarter ever, having raised almost $400,000 by May 2019.
American young adult author
Entitled G.I. Gertie, her comic strips appeared in a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) publication and featured the hijinks of a young woman soldier.
Barry invented the term “autobiofictionalography” to describe the hybrid nature of her multilayered, multimedia approach that incorporates collage and drawing in ink and watercolor.