Nilah Magruder is currently an executive producer at Outlook VFX on an unannounced animated preschool project. She has fifteen years of experience in television animation and marketing for television and film. She previously worked on Disney Junior's Ariel, Polly Pocket, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventures, Cannon Busters, and Dinotrux.
Nilah is also an award-winning author and Hugo-nominated illustrator. She is the co-author of Creaky Acres, a middle-grade graphic novel; the author of M.F.K., a middle-grade graphic novel and winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity; and picture books How to Find a Fox and Wutaryoo. Her next graphic novel, Hex and Havoc, the first book in a duology co-authored with Sonia Liao, is in the works.
She has published short stories in Fireside Magazine and All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages, along with comics for Marvel and BOOM! Studios. She created the character Spider-Byte for Marvel’s Spider-Geddon event.
Nilah is based in Maryland. Between projects, she can be found baking, gardening, and herding her assortment of cats, dogs, and chickens.