1. Marjorie M Liu is an American New York Times best-selling author and comic book writer.
15 Facts About Marjorie Liu
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Marjorie Liu is acclaimed for her horror fantasy comic Monstress, and her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels including The Hunter Kiss and Tiger Eye series.
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Marjorie M Liu was born in Philadelphia, and grew up in Seattle, Washington.
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Marjorie Liu's father is Taiwanese, while her mother is an American of French, Scottish and Irish descent.
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Marjorie Liu developed an early love of reading, from books such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Campbell, Charles de Lint and Jorge Luis Borges.
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Marjorie Liu first purchased X-Men and Wolverine comics for reference for her fanfic from Powerhouse Comics in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Marjorie Liu found an internship in Beijing working at the Foreign Agriculture Service at the US Embassy, which at the time, was dealing with the Chinese government's new rules regarding the import of genetically modified food.
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Marjorie Liu graduated in May 2003, and was admitted to the bar.
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Marjorie Liu published poetry, short stories, and non-fiction pieces, then submitted her first novel, a paranormal romantic adventure set in China and the United States entitled Tiger Eye.
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Marjorie Liu submitted it to several publishers before it was acquired by Dorchester, and published in November 2007.
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Marjorie Liu wrote a sequel to Tiger Eye, then produced A Taste of Crimson, the sequel to Liz Maverick's Crimson City, which was published in August 2005.
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Marjorie Liu produced the X-Men novel Dark Mirror for Pocket in 2005, but it was three years before that she landed her first comics assignment at Marvel, the X-Men spin-off NYX.
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Marjorie Liu wrote the final 21 issues for Marvel's Astonishing X-Men series with artist Mike Perkins from 2012 to 2013.
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In July 2018 Marjorie Liu became the first woman in the 30-year history of the Eisner Awards to win the Eisner Award for Best Writer for her work on Monstress.
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Marjorie Liu shared the award with writer Tom King, who received it for his work on Batman books and Mister Miracle.