10 Facts About Margaret Stohl

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Margaret Stohl is the author of 14 novels, as well as 5 volumes of comics and several videogames.

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Margaret Stohl was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford and in Film Studies at Yale.

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Margaret Stohl attended the Creative Writing program of the University of East Anglia, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth.

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Margaret Stohl is best known as the co-author, along with her friend Kami Garcia, of the "Caster Chronicles" book series, starting with Beautiful Creatures.

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In 2018 and 2019, Margaret Stohl collaborated with her former husband Lewis Peterson on her first two middle-grade novels, Cats Vs Robots: This is War and Cats Vs Robots: Now With Fleas.

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Margaret Stohl subsequently released the Little Women re-telling Jo And Laurie, co-written with Melissa de la Cruz, in spring 2020.

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In 2014, Margaret Stohl began to work with Sana Amanat of Marvel Comics and Emily Meehan of Marvel Press on a series of YA novels featuring the popular Marvel Avengers character Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow.

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In 2019, Marvel announced that Margaret Stohl would be penning a new Spider-man: Noir series for a March 2020 release.

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In 1999, Margaret Stohl co-founded the developer 7 Studios with her former husband Lewis Peterson; they ran the studio together until 2011, when 7 was acquired by Activision.

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Margaret Stohl co-founded two literacy-based non-profits for teen and youth, the YALLFEST book festival in Charleston, South Carolina in 2011 and the YALLWEST book festival in Santa Monica, California in 2014.