Kelly Sue DeConnick is the Eisner Awardnominated writer ofBitch Planet (Image),Pretty Deadly (Image),Captain Marvel (Marvel) andOsborn (Marvel) and got her start in the comics industry adapting Japanese and Korean comics into English. Five years and more than ten thousand pages of adaptation later, she transitioned to American comics with30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella for Steve Niles and IDW. Work for Image, Boom, Oni, Humanoids, Dark Horse, DC, Vertigo and Marvel soon followed. Today DeConnick is best known for surprise hits like Carol Danvers's rebranding as Captain Marvel and the Eisnernominated mythological westernPretty Deadly, the latter cocreated with artist Emma Rciacute;os. DeConnick's most recent venture, the scifi kidneypunch calledBitch Planet, cocreated with Valentine De Landro, launched to rave reviews in December 2014. DeConnick lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Matt Fraction, and their two children.