Gwendolyn Willow Wilson is an American comics writer, prose author, and essayist. Her best-known prose works include the novels Alif the Unseen (2012) and The Bird King (2019). She is most well known for relaunching the Ms. Marvel title for Marvel Comics starring a 16-year-old Muslim superhero named Kamala Khan. Her work is most often categorized as magical realism.
Wilson in 2019
Kamala Khan is a superheroine who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson, and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie, Kamala is Marvel's first major Muslim protagonist character and South Asian American personality with her own comic book. In the Marvel Universe, she is a teenage Pakistani-American from Jersey City, New Jersey with body-morphing abilities who discovers that she has Inhuman genes in the aftermath of the "Inhumanity" storyline. She assumes the mantle of Ms. Marvel from her idol, Carol Danvers, after Danvers becomes Captain Marvel.
Textless variant cover of Ms. Marvel #2 (March 2014). Art by Jorge Molina.
A statue of Kamala as Ms. Marvel at the Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes exhibition in Basel.
Kamala Khan dead in Spider-Man/Miles Morales' arms after being murdered by Zzzax, from Champions (2019) #3. Art by Steven Cummings.
Cover of The Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #1 with art by Eduard Petrovich.