Marjorie Liu

Marjorie Liu
Liu at the 2012 New York Comic Con
Born	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Novelist, poet, comic book writer
Language	English, Chinese
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Lawrence University University of Wisconsin
Period	2007 to the present
Genre	Adventure, urban fantasy, romance, superhero fantasy
Notable works	Tiger Eye NYX X-23 Dark Wolverine
Website
marjoriemliu.com

Marjorie M. Liu is an American New York Times best-selling author and comic novelist. Her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels include most notable The Hunter Kiss and Tiger Eye series. Her work for Marvel Comics include NYX, X-23, Dark Wolverine, and Astonishing X-Men. She also writes Monstress for Image Comics for which she was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series.

Marjorie M. Liu was born in Philadelphia in 1979, and grew up in Seattle, Washington. Her father is Taiwanese, while her mother is an American of French, Scottish and Irish descent. She 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.

Liu majored in East Asian Languages and Cultures and minored in Biomedical Ethics at the Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. During her undergraduate years there, she also practiced her web design skills by designing a fan site called The Wolverine and Jubilee page, based on her discovery of numerous X-Men fan sites that she found to be well-designed. Although she had never read comic books in her youth, she was familiar with the X-Men through the animated TV series and fan fiction, and to familiarize herself with them more closely, she purchased X-Men and Wolverine comics for reference from Powerhouse Comics in Appleton, Wisconsin. In the process, she became a fan of the franchise herself, and wrote her own X-Men fan fiction, finding it an experimental exercise that improved her storytelling skills.