Kelly Sue DeConnick

Kelly Sue DeConnick first rose to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Eisner Award-winning Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her independent comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as New York Times bestsellers, and her latest ongoing comic book, FML (Dark Horse Comics), launched to immediate critical acclaim in November of 2024. Her comics have earned Alfie, Eisner, and British Fantasy Awards, the Bronze Medal for International Manga from Japan, as well as Hugo and Oregon Book Award nominations. On screen, DeConnick’s credits include work on Captain Marvel, a film that earned over $1 billion worldwide for Disney, and 2023’s The Marvels with Marvel Studios. Her most recent stage work is writing the mythic spectacle Awakening, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.

She lives in Portland, OR, with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.