Leah Williams is an American comic book writer. She is best known for her work on X-Men titles, namely X-Factor as well as DC Comics' Power Girl.
Life and career Leah Williams grew up Mississippi and before she became a professional writer she worked at an comic shop. She is bisexual. After she published the young adult novel, The Alchemy of Being Fourteen, she was approached via e-mail by Marvel Comics editor Chris Robinson, who was a long-time follower of Williams' Tumblr account and became a fan of her writing and her extensive knowledge of the Marvel Universe. Williams first comic would be a tie-in issue of The Totally Awesome Hulk for the Monsters Unleashed crossover event. The story is called Math Is Magic and follows the twin sister of Amadeus Cho and Lady Hellbender. It was released on March 1, 2017.
Bibliography Comics DC Comics Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton #1 (back-up story, illustrated by Marguerite Sauvage, January 2023)Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton #1 Collected in Power Girl Returns (trade paperback, 88 pages, 2023, ) Action Comics #1051–1053 (back-up story, illustrated by Marguerite Sauvage, January–March 2023) Collected in Power Girl Returns Power Girl Special #1 (illustrated by Marguerite Sauvage, May 2023)Power Girl Special #1 Collected in Power Girl Returns Power Girl (vol. 3) #1–20 (illustrated by Eduardo Pansica, Adriana Melo & David Baldeón, September 2023–April 2025) Collected in Power Girl – Volume 1: Electric Dreams (#1–7, trade paperback, 144 pages, 2024, ) Collected in Power Girl – Volume 2: More Than a Crush (#8–13, trade paperback, 136 pages, 2024, ) Collected in Power Girl – Volume 3: The Star (#14–20, trade paperback, 160 pages, 2025, ) Absolute Power: Task Force VII #1 (illustrated by Caitlin Yarsky, July 2024) Collected in Absolute Power: Task Force VII (trade paperback, 176 pages, 2025, ) Gotham City Sirens (vol. 2) #1–4 (illustrated by Matteo Lolli, Daniel Hillyard, Brandt & Stein, August 2024) Collected in Gotham City Sirens (trade paperback, 120 pages, 2025, ) Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit #1–5 (illustrated by Haining, July 2025)
IDW Publishing The Addams Family: Charlatan's Web #1–2 (co-written with Chynna Clugston Flores, illustrated by Juan Samu, December 2023–January 2024)
Marvel Comics X-Men Gold Annual #1 (co-written with Marc Guggenheim, illustrated by Alitha Martinez, January 2018)X-Men Gold Annual #1 Collected in X-Men Gold – Volume 7: Godwar (trade paperback, 136 pages, 2018, ) Age of X-Man: X-Tremists #1–5 (illustrated by Georges Jeanty, February–June 2019)Age of X-Man: X-Tremists (2019) Collected in Age Of X-Man: X-Tremists (trade paperback, 113 pages, 2019, ) Gwenpool Strikes Back #1–5 (illustrated by David Baldeón, August–December 2019)Gwenpool Strikes Back (2019) Collected in Gwenpool Strikes Back (trade paperback, 112 pages, 2020, ) Amazing Mary Jane #1–6 (illustrated by Carlos Gómez, Lucas Werneck & Zé Carlos, October 2019–March 2020)Amazing Mary Jane (2019-2020) Collected in Amazing Mary Jane: Down in Flames, Up in Smoke (#1–5, trade paperback, 112 pages, 2020, ) Doctor Strange: The End #1 (illustrated by Filipe Andrade, January 2020)Doctor Strange: The End #1 Collected in The End (trade paperback, 232 pages, 2020, ) X-Factor (vol. 4) #1–10 (illustrated by David Baldeón & Carlos Gómez, July 2020–June 2021)X-Factor (2020-2021) Collected in X-Factor by Leah Williams – Volume 1 (#1–3, 5, trade paperback, 144 pages, 2020, ) Collected in X of Swords (#4, trade paperback, 720 pages, 2021, ) Collected in X-Factor by Leah Williams – Volume 2 (#6–10, trade paperback, 136 pages, 2021, ) X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1–5 (illustrated by Lucas Werneck, August–December 2021)X-Men: The Trial of Magneto (2021) Collected in X-Men: The Trial of Magneto (trade paperback, 152 pages, 2022, ) X-Terminators (vol. 2) #1–5 (illustrated by Carlos Gómez, September 2022–January 2023)X-Terminators (2022-2023) Collected in X-Terminators (trade paperback, 120 pages, 2023, )
Awards and nominations 2021 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book — X-Factor (Marvel Comics) — Nomination
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