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Author: Laura Marks

Laura Marks is a PEN Award-winning playwright and TV writer. Her debut comic series, Daphne Byrne (with art by Kelley Jones) will be released as a graphic novel in November 2020. Visit her website at www.lauramarks.net.
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Ms. Q&A: Carmen Maria Machado and Laura Marks on Writing Feminist Heroines into Horror Graphic Novels

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Ms. Q&A: Carmen Maria Machado and Laura Marks on Writing Feminist Heroines into Horror Graphic Novels

A conversation between PEN award-winning playwright and TV writer Laura Marks and National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado.

Both women have graphic novels from DC Comics out this fall. Women comic book writers are in the minority to begin with, and even more so in the horror genre.

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