Jen Wang

Jen Wang is a comics book author from Berkeley, Oakland but she was born and raised in California. Growing up, writing and reading was a huge part of her childhood as her mother always had a lot of picture books all over the house and also took them to the library whenever she had the time. Wang thus developed a love for drawing and visual stories from a very young age. As she grew into a teenager, she discovered young adult novels and would spend a lot of time reading these even though she did not know these were called YA until about a decade ago. She read a lot but it was not until she was in high school that she got into Manga and discovered that he could combine her love for writing with drawing to make comics. Before that, she was doing writing and drawing separately but was getting pulled in different directions. For the most part, she focused on prose fiction and from time to time she would dabble in drawings. She imagined that the best of both worlds would be writing an illustrated novel and for a long time she was going for that. But then she got into comics and thought I can do more drawings and have my stories in that format.