Mariko Tamaki is an award-winning New York Times Bestselling writer of both comics and prose. Her work on graphic novels like Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me and Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass earned her an Eisner Award for Best Writer. In 2021, she began a ground-breaking appointment as the lead-writer for the ongoing Detective Comics series, which she continued for nearly 30 issues. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for her Roaming. Tamaki currently resides in Toronto, Canada.