Stephanie Williams is an American comic book writer, who has written for various properties, including Wonder Woman, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, and Street Sharks, as well as original series Roots of Madness and Temporal. She was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Writer in 2026.
Career Williams started writing comics after the birth of her child. She published the webcomics Parenthood Activate, But What If Though, and Living Heroes, the last of which was a Kickstarter-funded superhero fancomic featuring Storm, She-Hulk, Misty Knight, and Monica Rambeau living together in a sitcom setting. Marvel hired Williams for a two-page story about Rambeau titled Panic at the Supermarket for the comic anthology Marvel's Voices: Legacy after reading the comic.
Williams co-wrote the 2021 limited series Nubia & the Amazons with Vita Ayala, starring the Amazon Nubia. The series introduced Bia, the first transgender Amazon in DC Comics. While unconfirmed in her debut issue, Williams verified the character's status as a trans woman on Twitter.
In 2025, Williams and artist Sas Milledge adapted Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys into a graphic novel.
In 2023's Marvel's Voices: Pride, Williams wrote the short story What May Bloom, which introduced the character Logan Lewis, who operates as a superhero named Nightshade. Lewis is the cousin of existing character Tilda Johnson, who shares the same codename.
In 2024, Williams wrote the graphic novel Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Wreck and Roll, a tie-in with the Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur TV series.
In 2025, she wrote Roots of Madness, a creator-owned horror comic inspired by the life of Madam C. J. Walker, illustrated by Letizia Cadonici and published by Ignition Press. The same year, she wrote Temporal, a sci-fi heist series illustrated by Asiah Fulmore and published by Mad Cave Studios. Also in 2025, she wrote the Street Sharks comic miniseries for IDW Publishing. She has discussed being a fan of the original animated series as a child.
In June 2026 it was announced Williams would write the comic miniseries Vengeance Unchained: The Legend of Black Caesar with Shaquille O'Neal and illustrated by Ray-Anthony Height and Studio Skye-Tiger, based on the 18th-century pirate Black Caeser and set for release in October 2026. The same month, she was announced as the writer of Smile: Any Given Smile, a football-themed comic set in Smile franchise.
At the 2026 San Diego Comic-con, it was announced she would be writing the first ongoing series for the DC Comics superhero Vixen, to be illustrated by Khary Randolph. Awards and recognition In 2026, Williams was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Writer for her work on Street Sharks, Roots of Madness, and Temporal. Williams was the first Black woman to be nominated for the award, and was the second ever Black person to be nominated after Dwayne MacDuffie's nomination in 1995. She was also nominated for the Eisner Award for Best New Series for Temporal in the same year.
Outlets such as Comics Beat noted an initial lack of coverage for Williams's nominations in mainstream comics news outlets. Williams herself stated on Threads "It’s actually kinda wild that not one major comic news outlet ... have written any pieces about not only my historic Eisner nominations (first Black Woman and the second Black person since 95 for the Best Writer category) but also the amount of diverse nominations this year in total."
Personal life Williams graduated from the University of Illinois Chicago and worked in scientific research prior to entering the comics industry.
Williams is queer. In an interview with NPR, she discussed her experience with postpartum depression.
Bibliography DC Comics Wonder Woman: Black and Gold ("A Common Motivator", 2021, illustrated by Ashley A. Woods, ) Nubia and the Amazons (with Vita Ayala, 2021–2022, illustrated by Alitha Martinez, ) Trial of the Amazons #1–2 (with Vita Ayala, Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Jordie Bellaire, and Joëlle Jones, illustrated by Joëlle Jones, Elena Casagrande, Skylar Patridge, and Laura Braga, 2022, ) Nubia: Coronation Special #1 (with Vita Ayala, 2022, illustrated by Marguerite Sauvage, Colleen Doran, Darryl Banks, Jill Thompson, and Alitha Martinez. ) DC Pride 2022 ("Confessions", illustrated by Meghan Hetrick, 2022, ) Nubia: Queen of the Amazons (illustrated by Alitha Martinez, 2022, ) DC Power: A Celebration #1 ("The Queen, the Bee & the Symphony", 2023, illustrated by Alitha Martinez, 2023, ) Warriors and a Wee Wonder (webcomic for DC GO!, 2025) Warriors and a Tween Wonder (webcomic for DC GO!, 2026) Wonder Woman #29–30 (fill-in for Tom King, illustrated by Jeff Spokes, 2026, ) Wonder Woman #35–36 (fill-in for Tom King, illustrated by Clayton Henry, 2026, ) Wonder Woman Annual: Wonder War – The Matriarch #1 (with Leah Williams, illustrated by Eduardo Pansica and Belén Ortega, ) Marvel
Marvel's Voices: Legacy ("Panic at the Supermarket", illustrated by Natacha Bustos, 2021, ) Wakanda #1 (illustrated by Paco Medina, 2022, ) Marvel's Voices: Pride ("What May Bloom", illustrated by Héctor Barros, 2023, ) Alien: Black, White & Blood #2 (2024, )
IDW Publishing My Little Pony: Maretime Mysteries (illustrated by Abby Bulmer, 2024, ) Street Sharks (illustrated by Ariel Medel, 2025, ) Star Trek: Deviations – Threads of Destiny #1 (illustrated by Greg Maldonado, 2026, )
Penguin Random House The Raven Boys (adaption of the novel by Maggie Stiefvater, 2025, illustrated by Sas Milledge, )
Mad Cave Studios Temporal (illustrated by Asiah Fulmore, 2025, )
Ignition Press Roots of Madness (illustrated by Letizia Cadonici, 2025, )
Oni Press Sesame Street #2 (illustrated by Beth Hughes, 2025, )
Scholastic Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Wreck and Roll (illustrated by Asia Simone, 2024, )
References
External links
Stephanie Williams on Webtoon Living Heroes on Global Comix