G. 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 a writer for some of the world's best-known superhero comic book series, including The X-Men, Superman, 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.