Saladin Ahmed

Saladin Ahmed
Born (1975-10-04) October 4, 1975 (age 49)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Alma materRutgers University (MA)
Brooklyn College (MFA)
University of Michigan (BA)
Henry Ford Community College
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, superheroes, poetry
Years active2000–present

Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975) is an American comic book writer and a science fiction/fantasy poetry and prose writer. His 2012 book Throne of the Crescent Moon was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel[1][2][3] and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.[4] Ahmed's fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines including Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2 and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He is currently set to write Daredevil and has previously written other series for Marvel Comics such as Black Bolt, Exiles, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, and The Magnificent Ms. Marvel.[5][2][6][7][8] He is also the co-creator of the comic series Abbott and its sequels Abbott: 1973 and Abbott: 1979.[9]

  1. ^ "2013 Hugo Award Nominations". December 22, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Cavna, Michael (October 26, 2017). "Kellogg's will change its Corn Pops box after author says it teaches 'kids racism'". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  3. ^ Smith, Aaron (October 26, 2017). "Kellogg's gets rid of racially insensitive art on Corn Pops box". CNN.com. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  4. ^ "Locus Awards Winners", Locus, June 29, 2013.
  5. ^ "Miles Morales Is Getting Back to His Spider-Man Roots in a New Series Written by Saladin Ahmed". Gizmodo. September 14, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
  6. ^ Krug, Kurt Anthony (May 1, 2017). "Award-winning Oak Park author tries his hand at Marvel Comics' 'Black Bolt'". Oakland Press.
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