Jennie Wood
Non-binary author of Flutter and Paper Planes, exploring gender, identity, and self-discovery through comics.
Jennie Wood writes stories that help people find themselves—sometimes by losing someone else. A non-binary author, musician, and animal rescue volunteer based in Boston, Wood has built a body of work centered on gender, identity, and the messy, beautiful process of becoming who you are.
Wood’s breakthrough series, Flutter (215 Ink, later collected by Dark Horse Comics), is a sci-fi graphic novel about a shape-shifting protagonist named Lily who can transform between male and female forms. What started as a way to explore how girls and boys are treated differently became deeply personal: writing Flutter led Wood to come out as non-binary. The series was hailed by The Advocate as one of the best LGBTQ graphic novels of its time, featured in The New York Times and Boston Globe, and even appeared on Law & Order: SVU. Dark Horse collected the entire saga in 2018, and it won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for best graphic novel of 2019.
Their 2023 graphic novel Paper Planes earned a Next Generation Indie Book Award and an IPPY Bronze Medal. Earlier, their YA novel A Boy Like Me was named one of Foreword Reviews’ 10 Best Indie YA novels in 2014 and was an INDIEFAB and Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist.
Wood’s anthologies include the bestselling FUBAR series, the Eisner-winning Love Is Love, the Harvey-nominated 27: A Comic Anthology, and John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight. They contributed to All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World from A Wave Blue World alongside collaborator Jeff McComsey and are the creator of I Didn’t Ask For This and New Romantics.
Beyond comics, Wood is a musician and dedicated animal rescue volunteer living in Boston with their partner Natalie and rescue dog Moxie. Their work is a testament to the power of comics as a tool for self-discovery—both for the people who make them and the people who read them.
Perfect for fans of thoughtful, identity-driven comics like Saga, The Prince and the Dressmaker, and Gender Queer. Wood’s work is essential reading for anyone who believes comics can change how we see ourselves.
