

May 20, 2026: On Wednesday, June 9 I'll be joining John Patrick Green at People's Book in Takoma Park, MD to chat about is latest graphic novel, InvestiGators: Weather or Not! The event starts at 5:30 pm. Click here to RSVP.
May 19, 2026: I'm a guest at this year's Atlantic Comic Con August 22-23, 2026 in Norfolk, VA. See you there!
May 18, 2026: Come see me and many other amazing authors at Cecil County Children's Book Festival on Saturday, June 13, 2026!
May 6, 2025: Creaky Acres is on sale! Get your copy from your favorite indie bookseller today!
December 14, 2023: Spider-Byte is swinging back onto bookshelves! I’m contributing a story to EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #1, and Eric Gapstur is illustrating. Find us in comic shops February 21, 2024!
August 10, 2021: Stephanie Guerdan at HarperCollins has bought world rights to the queer YA fantasy duology Hex and Havoc, written by Nilah Magruder (Reel Love; M.F.K.), illustrated by Sonia Liao (Thief in the Trees; The Marie Curie Society). The books follow two girls in a caste-based magical society as they fall in love and spark a revolution. Publication is planned for summer 2023 and 2024; Tricia Lawrence at Erin Murphy Literary represented the author, and the illustrator represented herself. Magruder is now represented by Patrice Caldwell at New Leaf Literary.
October 27, 2020: McDuffie Diversity Award-winning author of M.F.K Nilah Magruder’s REEL LOVE, based on the author’s experiences embracing being asexual, the graphic novel follows young Nilah who goes on a summer trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains where she develops a passion for fishing, meets a boy, and learns there’s no getting away from growing up and from facing her questions about identity and love, to Polo Orozco at Random House Children’s, in a major deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2023, by Patrice Caldwell at New Leaf Literary & Media (world English)


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