“I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.”

American comics writer, prose author, and essayist

Gwendolyn Willow Wilson is an American comics writer, prose author, and essayist. Her work is most often described as magical realism, and she is best known for writing across comics and prose. Wilson writes in several forms, moving between graphic storytelling, fiction, and essays. Her work is associated with magical realism, a mode that blends everyday life with elements that feel unreal or extraordinary.