Maia Kobabe is an author/illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (2019), was the winner of an Alex Award and Stonewall Honor in 2020, and nominated for an Ignatz Award and the Best Graphic Novels for Teens List from YALSA in 2019. It was also the most challenged book in the United States in 2021, 2022, and 2023. It is available in softcover, hardcover, and audio book, and has been translated into Spanish, Polish, Czech, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Japanese, Icelandic, Greek, and Ukrainian. GENDER QUEER: THE ANNOTATED EDITION was released in May 2026 from Oni Press, with notes and new comics added by eighteen contributors.
