Meet the author

Wendy Xu.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Wendy Xu: American cartoonist behind Tidesong and Mooncakes (with Suzanne Walker) — bright, painterly, Chinese-mythology-and-cosy-witchcraft middle-grade / YA graphic novels for ages 9–14.

Wendy Xu is an American cartoonist best known for the Tidesong middle-grade graphic-novel and Mooncakes (YA graphic-novel, with Suzanne Walker), fantasy-adventure comics with a Chinese-mythology / cosy-witchcraft register. Xu's style is bright, painterly and warmly inclusive, with strong skill at depicting culturally specific magical settings. A reliable contemporary middle-grade / YA graphic-novel author-illustrator for ages 9–14, particularly important to LGBTQ-inclusive and Asian-diaspora reading shelves.