Tom King

Tom King primarily grew up in Southern California. His mother worked for the film industry which inspired his love of storytelling. He interned at both DC and Marvel Comics during the late 1990s, where he was an assistant to X-Men writer Chris Claremont, before joining the CIA counterterrorism unit after 9/11. He studied both philosophy and history at Columbia University, graduating in 2000.

He is best known for writing the novel A Once Crowded Sky, The Vision for Marvel Comics, The Sheriff of Babylon for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo and Batman, Mister Miracle, and Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow for DC Comics. In 2018, he received the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his work on multiple Batman books and Mister Miracle, sharing the award with Marjorie Liu.