Grace Ellis is an American journalist, comics and television writer. She won the Eisner Award for Best New Series and Best Publication for Teens in 2015 for Lumberjanes[1] and Best Reality-Based Work in 2023 for Flung Out of Space and was nominated for Best Writer.[2]
Career
After college, Ellis worked for Autostraddle[3] where, during an annual sleepaway camp the site hosted, she met Shannon Watters, who was a writer and editor at Boom! Studios. Watters recommended that they make a comic together and they came up with the idea for Lumberjanes. The first issue of Lumberjanes was the first comic Ellis had ever written.[4] Lumberjanes would go on to win the 2016