- Scholar
- Writer
- American
- Black
Eve L. Ewing is a writer, sociologist, and cultural organizer born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She wrote the Marvel series Ironheart (2018), centered on Riri Williams. In 2023, she became the first Black female author of the Black Panther series at Marvel. She also wrote Exceptional X-Men. Beyond comics, she is an associate professor at the University of Chicago and the author of the award-winning poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, and the nonfiction book Ghosts in the Schoolyard.
Ironheart #1-6 (Marvel, 2018)
Exceptional X-Men (Marvel)
Black Panther (Marvel, 2023)
Change the Game – co-writer with Colin Kaepernick (graphic novel)
First Black female author of the Black Panther series at Marvel Comics (2023)
2018 Alex Award (ALA, Electric Arches)
2020 Black Caucus of the American Library Association (Best Poetry Book – 1919)
2021 USA Artists Fellow
2021 New America National Fellow
2022 MacDowell Fellow
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Magazine
New York Times
NPR
The New Yorker