“It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.”

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.