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born 1979 United States
Marjorie M. Liu (born 1979) is an American best-selling author and comic book writer.
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Also known as: Marjorie M. Liu
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Books, words, were my most treasured escape. I lived inside stories, I breathed them. I felt like they made me more human, or a better human…
Monstress, however, was the product of many different ideas; my grandmother’s experience of the Japanese occupation of China, for example, my desire to explore what it is to be monstrous. But it also had to do with women—more precisely the representation of women.
I realized I was thinking about fiction two-dimensionally. When I’m writing comics, I’m also visualizing how the story will look on the page—not even always art-wise, but panel-wise, like how a moment will be enhanced dramatically by simply turning a page and getting a reveal. It requires thinking about story in a way I never had to consider when I was writing prose.