Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen is a British comics writer best known for creator-owned series that blend fantasy, myth and pop culture. He started out as a video game journalist, writing for magazines including PC Gamer, before comics became his main work.

His breakout series, Phonogram, launched in 2006 with artist Jamie McKelvie, and the two later created The Wicked + The Divine together. With artist Stephanie Hans he made DIE, in which a group of adults are pulled back into a game world they barely survived as teenagers, as well as the graphic novel We Called Them Giants. He also writes the fantasy series Once & Future and The Power Fantasy, a superhero series drawn by Caspar Wijngaard.

Volumes of The Wicked + The Divine, DIE, Once & Future and The Power Fantasy, along with We Called Them Giants, have all been Hugo Award finalists. Gillen has also written many Marvel titles, including Young Avengers, Thor, Iron Man and Star Wars: Darth Vader, where he co-created the character Doctor Aphra. He lives in Bath, England.