Alisa Kwitney is an American writer of comics and novels who worked as an editor at Vertigo Comics under Karen Berger, and is currently the editor for Liminal Comics at Brain Mill Press. Born in 1964 in New York City, she is the daughter of science fiction author Robert Sheckley. She holds a BA in English from Wesleyan University, where she received the Horgan Writing Prize for Fiction, and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her master's thesis was published by HarperCollins as her first novel, Till the Fat Lady Sings (1991). Her comics work includes writing The Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night (editor and contributing author), Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold (nominated for a Best Limited Series Eisner Award), Token, Mystik U for DC Comics, and contributing to A Flight of Angels and Batman: No Man's Land. She has also written numerous romance novels and genre fiction titles.
The Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night (DC/Vertigo, editor and contributing author); Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold (Vertigo, Eisner-nominated); Vertigo Visions: The Phantom Stranger; Token; A Flight of Angels (contributing author); Batman: No Man's Land Vol. 3 (contributing author); Mystik U (DC Comics)
1991: First novel Till the Fat Lady Sings published by HarperCollins; Editor at Vertigo Comics under Karen Berger; 1998: The Dreaming anthology published; 2000: Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold (Eisner nomination); 2017: Mystik U published by DC Comics; Currently editor at Liminal Comics, Brain Mill Press
Eisner Award nomination — Best Limited Series, Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
