Margaret Stohl

Spider-man: Noir (2020) for Marvel Comics, edited by Devin Lewis, art by Juan Ferrerya. (limited series #1-5)

In 2019, Marvel announced that Margaret would be penning a new Spider-man: Noir series (with artist Juan Ferreyra) for a March 2020 release.

Batwoman/Supergirl: World's Finest Giant #1 (2019) for DC Comics, "Sister Sister," one shot, edited by Katie Kubert, art by Laura Braga. (anthology)

Life of Captain Marvel, a retelling of Carol Danvers' origin story in advance of her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (with artists Carlos Pacheco and Marguerite Sauvage) was well-received and well-reviewed on July 18, 2018. G. Willow Wilson tweeted, "I have rarely heard editors talk about any book the way they talk about this one...an innovative, literary upending of the superhero genre. Do not miss!" Margaret has previously released three collected volumes of Mighty Captain Marvel as trade editions; "Life" was the fourth.

Cats vs Robots: This is War (2018) and Cats vs Robots: Now With Fleas (2019) (middle grade humor)

Life of Captain Marvel (2018) for Marvel Comics, edited by Sarah Brunstadt and Sana Amanat, art by Carlos Pacheco and Marguerite Sauvage. (limited series #1-5)

In April 2017, Margaret released her eleventh YA novel, Royce Rolls, a satirical look at Los Angeles' celebrity culture. The book was published by Disney's Freeform Press, and released with a trailer lampooning a reality television family. In 2018 and 2019, Margaret collaborated with her former husband Lewis Peterson on her first two middle-grade novels, Cats Vs. Robots: This is War and Cats Vs. Robots: Now With Fleas. Both books were illustrated by their child, Kay Peterson, a student at Maryland Institute College of the Arts.

After taking a hiatus from the game industry to establish her career as a novelist, in 2017 Margaret began to work as a consulting writer for Activision Blizzard again, ultimately joining the game developer Bungie as a Narrative Director for Destiny 2. In July 2018, her twitter and instagram profiles listed her position as Bungie Incubation Narrative Director.

After writing two one-shots for Marvel Comics (based on a YA character invented for the novels, Ava Orlova, also known as the Red Widow) Margaret was asked to write the Mighty Captain Marvel comic in December 2016, followed by Generations, Legacy: Dark Origins, and Life of Captain Marvel. After G. Willow Wilson, Margaret became the second female creator ever invited to attend the Marvel Creative Summit.

Mighty Captain Marvel (2016-2017) (ongoing) for Marvel Comics

In 2014, Margaret began to work with Sana Amanat of Marvel Comics and Emily Meehan of Marvel Press (a part of Disney Publishing) on a series of YA novels featuring the popular Marvel Avengers character Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow. Black Widow Forever Red was an instant New York Times bestseller, and given generally favorable reviews, including an "A" rating by Entertainment Weekly. Black Widow Red Vengeance soon followed.

Beautiful Creatures debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List and quickly became an international bestseller, published in 39 countries and translated into 28 languages. It was made into the 2013 film Beautiful Creatures. which featured an all-star cast including Alden Ehrenreich (best known for playing the young Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story) as well as Emmy Rossum, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, Zoe Deutch, Rachel Brosnahan and Thomas Mann. The film adaptation was written and directed by Richard LaGravenese. Both the books and the film adaptation have found wide audiences.

Margaret co-founded two literacy-based non-profits for teen and youth, the YALLFEST book festival in Charleston, South Carolina in 2011 (with her former writing partner, Kami Garcia, as well as Jonathan Sanchez of Charleston's Blue Bicycle Books) and the YALLWEST book festival in Santa Monica, California in 2014 (with best-selling author and friend, Melissa de la Cruz.) The two festivals are the largest dedicated youth and teen festivals in the United States. As an outspoken LGBT advocate and parent of a non-binary child, Margaret is also a regional board member for Facing History and Ourselves, an organization dedicated to advocating empathy and eliminating bias (whether based on race, religion, gender or sexuality) in schools.

Margaret also works in the video game industry. Notable writing credits include Activision's adventure games The Elk Moon Murder, Zork Nemesis and Zork: Grand Inquisitor (the latter as lead designer, for which she was nominated for "Most Innovative Game Design" at the Game Developers' Conference Spotlight Awards in 1998); Westwood Studios' real-time strategy titles Dune 2000, Command & Conquer: Red Alert Retaliation, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun; Infogrames' Slave Zero; Midway Games' Legion: The Legend of Excalibur and the 2002 Defender remake; Activision's Apocalypse and Fantastic Four. In 1999, Margaret co-founded the developer 7 Studios with her former husband Lewis Peterson; they ran the studio together until 2011, when 7 was acquired by Activision.

Margaret Stohl (/s t oʊ l / ; born 1967) is an American novelist. She is the author of 13 novels, as well as 5 volumes of comics and several videogames. She was born in Pasadena, California, and now lives in Santa Monica.