Eve Ewing

She has written several projects for Marvel Comics, most notably the Ironheart series, and she’s currently at the helm of the Black Panther series. Additionally, she is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, produced by Manual Cinema, she co-wrote the short story “Timebox” with Janelle Monáe as part of the queer Afrofuturist short story collection The Memory Librarian, and she is the co-author the young adult graphic novel Change the Game with Colin Kaepernick, illustrated by Orlando Caicedo. Eve’s next book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, will be published by One World in 2025.

Eve has been an educator for many years in many settings, including Chicago Public Schools, After School Matters, Harvard University, and Wellesley College. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, where she teaches classes on race, education, and Afrofuturism. Furthermore, she is also an affiliate of the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, a visual arts and humanities project that connects teaching artists and scholars to folks incarcerated at Stateville Maximum Security Prison through classes, workshops and guest lectures.

Born and raised in the Logan Square community of Chicago, Eve is a proud alum of Chicago Public Schools. She completed her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to that, she received an undergraduate degree with honors in English Language & Literature from the University of Chicago, with a focus on African-American literature of the twentieth century. She also holds an MAT in Elementary Education from Dominican University and an M.Ed in Education Policy and Management from Harvard. Additionally, Eve has been a USA Artists Fellow, a New America National Fellow, and a MacDowell Fellow, receiving the James Baldwin Fellowship.