Maia Kobabe is an author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, won a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2020. It was also the number one most challenged book in the US in 2021. Maia’s short comics have been published by The New Yorker, The Nib, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies including The Secret Lives of Geeks, Faster Than Light Y’All, Gothic Tales Of Haunted Love, Advanced Death Saves, and Be Gay, Do Comics. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries.