G. Willow Wilson
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Ms. Marvel | |
Awards | Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award |
Spouse(s) | Omar |
Children | 2 |
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Gwendolyn Willow Wilson (born August 31, 1982) is an American comics writer, prose author, and essayist. Her best-known prose works include the novels
Early life
Wilson was born on August 31, 1982, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and grew up in Morganville.[1][2] Wilson lived in the county until she was 12.[3] However, in an interview with Newsrama in 2013, she erroneously said she was born in Morris County and spent the first ten years of her life there.[4] Her parents were atheists who renounced Protestantism in the late 1960s,[1] hence Wilson was not raised in a religious household. Wilson first encountered comics when she read an anti-smoking pamphlet featuring the X-Men in the fifth grade. The characters fascinated her and she began watching the cartoon X-Men every Saturday.[5] Two years later she and her family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where Wilson continued to pursue her interest in comics and other forms of popular culture such as tabletop role-playing games.
Converting to Islam
After high school, Wilson attended
In 2003, shortly before her graduation, Wilson agreed to teach English in Cairo. During the plane journey, Wilson converted to Islam; claiming she "made peace with God. I called him Allah." According to Butterfly Mosque, upon arrival in Cairo, Wilson secretly practiced Islam but after becoming engaged to an Egyptian she began to practice it more openly.
Career
Wilson's writing career began from her work as a freelance music critic for
Her first graphic novel,
Her first ongoing comic series,
Wilson then wrote
Her debut novel Alif the Unseen (Grove/Atlantic) won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for best novel.[23][24][25]
In 2014, Marvel debuted a new
In November 2018, Wilson began writing Wonder Woman from DC Comics. The character battles Ares in an arc entitled "The Just War."[26]
Her March 2019 novel, The Bird King,[27] tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker. Hassan has a secret: he can draw maps of places he's never seen and bend the shape of reality.
In 2020, she is writing The Dreaming from DC Comics, with art by Nick Robles and starting with issue #19.[28] The series is part of The Sandman Universe.
Creating Kamala Khan
Wilson had already had a few forays into the comic book industry, having worked on titles such as
Personal life
Since 2007, Wilson has lived in Seattle with her husband, Omar. She has two daughters.
Awards
Award wins
- 2012 – Middle East Book Award—Youth Literature: Alif the Unseen[36]
- 2013 – Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award—Regional Book: Alif the Unseen[37]
- 2013 – World Fantasy Award—Novel: Alif the Unseen[38]
- 2014 – Broken Frontier Awards—Best Writer, Mainstream[39]
- 2015 – Hugo Award—Best Graphic Story: Ms. Marvel[40]
- 2016 – Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics: Ms. Marvel[41]
- 2019 - American Book Award: Ms. Marvel[42]
Nominations
- 2009 – Eisner Awards—Best New Series: Air, by G. Willow Wilson and M. K. Perker (Vertigo/DC) (nomination)[43]
- 2012 – Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize—First Novel (finalist): Alif the Unseen[44]
- 2013 – Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction—Fiction (Nominee): Alif the Unseen[45]
- 2013 – John W. Campbell Memorial Award—Novel (Third Place): Alif the Unseen[46]
- 2013 – Locus Award—First Novel (Nominee): Alif the Unseen[47]
- 2015 – Eisner Awards: Best New Series: Ms. Marvel, by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona (Marvel) (nomination)[48]
- 2015 – Eisner Awards: Best Writer (nomination)[48]
- 2015 – Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity: Ms. Marvel, by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona (Marvel) (nomination)[49]
- 2015 – Harvey Awards: Best Writer (nomination)[50]
- 2015 – Harvey Awards: Best New Series: Ms. Marvel (nomination)[50]
- 2016 – Eisner Awards: Best Writer[51]
Bibliography
Comics
AiT/Planet Lar
- ISBN 1-932051-52-X)
Dark Horse Comics/Berger Books
- Invisible Kingdom #1–present (with Christian Ward, October 2019-ongoing)
DC Comics
- Batman Black and White
- "Metamorphosis" (with Greg Smallwood, in #1, 2020)
- ISBN 1-4012-1672-2)
- Vixen: Return of the Lion(limited series) (October 2008 – February 2009)
- Vixen: Return of the Lion (tpb, 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2512-8) collects:
- "Predators" (with CAFU, in #1, 2008)
- "Prey" (with CAFU, in #2, 2008)
- "Sanctuary" (with CAFU, in #3, 2008)
- "Risen" (with CAFU, in #4, 2009)
- "Idols" (with CAFU, in #5, 2009)
- Vixen: Return of the Lion (tpb, 128 pages, 2009,
- ISBN 1-4012-3075-X)
- Jesús Merino, 2018–2019)
- Poison Ivy (2022)
Vertigo
- ISBN 1-4012-1140-2)
- Air (August 2008 – August 2010)
- Volume 1: Letters from Lost Countries (tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2153-X) collects:
- "Letters from Lost Countries" (with M.K. Perker, in #1–3, 2008)
- "Masks and Other Memories" (with M.K. Perker, in #4, 2008)
- "The Engine Room" (with M.K. Perker, in #5, 2008)
- Volume 2: Flying Machine (tpb, 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2483-0) collects:
- "The Secret Life of Maps" (with M.K. Perker, in #6, 2009)
- "The Picture of Zayn al Harrani" (with M.K. Perker, in #7, 2009)
- "Her Own Devices" (with M.K. Perker, in #8, 2009)
- "Mass Transit" (with M.K. Perker, in #9, 2009)
- "Place of the Egrets" (with M.K. Perker, in #10, 2009)
- Volume 3: Pureland (tpb, 168 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2706-6) collects:
- "Sweet as the Tongue" (with M.K. Perker, in #11, 2009)
- "Pureland" (with M.K. Perker, in #12–14, 2009)
- "Air Heart" (with M.K. Perker, in #15, 2009)
- "Infinite Shades" (with M.K. Perker, in #16, 2009)
- "The Picture of Blythe Alice Cameron" (with M.K. Perker, in #17, 2010)
- Volume 4: A History of the Future (tpb, 168 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2983-2) collects:
- "Reveille" (with M.K. Perker, in #18, 2010)
- "A History of the Future" (with M.K. Perker, in #19–21, 2010)
- "Wild Blue Yonder" (with M.K. Perker, in #22, 2010)
- "Dogfight!" (with M.K. Perker, in #23, 2010)
- "The Last Horizon" (with M.K. Perker, in #24, 2010)
- Volume 1: Letters from Lost Countries (tpb, 144 pages, 2009,
- ISBN 1-4012-4394-0)
Marvel Comics
- Ming Doyle, March 2010).
- Women of Marvel #1, "Thrones" (with Peter Nguyen, November 2010)
- ISBN 0-7851-5608-9)
- Ms. Marvel vol. 3 #1–19 (with Adrian Alphona, February 2014 – October 2015)
- Volume 1: No Normal (tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-9021-X) collects:
- "Garden State of Mind" (with Adrian Alphona, in All-New Marvel NOW! Point One #1.NOW, 2014)
- "Meta Morphosis" (with Adrian Alphona, in #1, 2014)
- "All Mankind" (with Adrian Alphona, in #2, 2014)
- "Side Entrance" (with Adrian Alphona, in #3, 2014)
- "Past Curfew" (with Adrian Alphona, in #4, 2014)
- "Urban Legend" (with Adrian Alphona, in #5, 2014)
- Volume 2: Generation Why (tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9022-8) collects:
- "Healing Factor" (with Jake Wyatt, in #6–7, 2014)
- "Generation Why" (with Adrian Alphona, in #8–11, 2014–2015)
- Volume 3: Crushed (tpb, 112 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9227-1) collects:
- "Loki in Love" (with Elmo Bondoc, in #12, 2015)
- "Crushed" (with Takeshi Miyazawa, in #13–15, 2015)
- Volume 4: Last Days (tpb, 120 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9736-2) collects:
- "Last Days" (with Adrian Alphona, in #16–19, 2015)
- Volume 1: No Normal (tpb, 120 pages, 2014,
- Ms. Marvel vol. 4 #1-38 (November 2015 – April 2019)
- Volume 5: Super Famous (tpb, 136 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9611-0) collects:
- "Super Famous" (with Adrian Alphona and Takeshi Miyazawa, in #1–3, 2015–2016)
- "Army of One" (with Nico Leon, in #4–6, 2016)
- Volume 6: Civil War II (tpb, 136 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9612-9) collects:
- "The Road to War" (with Adrian Alphona, in #7, 2016)
- "Civil War II" (with Takeshi Miyazawa and Adrian Alphona, in #8–11, 2016)
- "The Road to War" (with Mirka Andolfo, in #12, 2016)
- Volume 7: Damage Per Second (tpb, 136 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0305-5) collects:
- "Election Day" (with Mirka Andolfo, in #13, 2016)
- "Damage Per Second" (with Takeshi Miyazawa, in #14–17, 2017)
- "Meanwhile in Wakanda" (with Francesco Gaston, in #18, 2017)
- Volume 5: Super Famous (tpb, 136 pages, 2016,
- X-Men vol. 4 #23–26 (January 2015 – April 2015)
- Volume 5: The Burning World (tpb, 96 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9726-5) collects:
- "The Burning World" (with Roland Boschi, Javi Fernandez, in #23–26, 2015)
- Volume 5: The Burning World (tpb, 96 pages, 2015,
- ISBN 0-7851-9861-X)
- A-Force vol. 2, #1–4 (January–April 2016)
- Volume 1: Hypertime #1–4, Avengers #0 (with Jorge Molina and ISBN 0-7851-9605-6)
- Volume 1: Hypertime #1–4, Avengers #0 (with Jorge Molina and
- Mahmud Asrar, August 2016)
- ISBN 1-3029-0847-2)
Novels
- The Butterfly Mosque (memoir, ISBN 0-8021-4533-7)
- Alif the Unseen (Grove/Atlantic, July 2012)
- ISBN 978-0-8021-2903-1
References
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- ^ "Jersey City to feature heavily in new Marvel comic book, writer says". nj.com. November 8, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- ^ Wilson, G. Willow (February 27, 2018). "A Jew and a Muslim Walk Into a Comic Book Shop. The Proprietor Hands Them a Sandwich". Orthodox Union (Interview). Interviewed by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- ^ "G. Willow Wilson's New MS. MARVEL – Teen, Muslim, Jersey Girl, Fangirl!". Newsarama. November 6, 2013. Archived from the original on September 16, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ^ a b Wilson, G. Willow (March 25, 2015). "Islam Sci-fi Interview of G. Willow Wilson (Part I)". Islam and Science Fiction (Interview). Interviewed by Rebecca Hankins. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ^ "'The Butterfly Mosque' by G. Willow Wilson". The Denver Post. June 3, 2010.
- ^ Wilson, G. Willow (June 20, 2010). "Beneath the veil". Boston.com (Interview). Interviewed by Ideas. Seattle. Written by Lisa Wangsness. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
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- ^ "GCD :: Issue :: Vixen: Return of the Lion #1". Comics.org. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ^ a b Wilson, G. Willow (November 14, 2016). "Interview: G. Willow Wilson on Ms. Marvel and the Muslim-American Experience". Comics Bulletin (Interview). Interviewed by Ardo Omer. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
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External links
- Official website
- G. Willow Wilson at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)