Molly Knox Ostertag is an Igntaz- and Prism-Award winning graphic novelist, 30 Under 30 Forbes scholar, and TV writer. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her spouse ND Stevenson.
Her middle-grade graphic novel debut, The Witch Boy, came out in 2017 from Scholastic, and is being adapted into a feature film by Netflix. It’s followed by the sequel The Hidden Witch in 2018 and NY Times bestseller The Midwinter Witch in 2019. Her next book, The Girl From The Sea, debuted as a #1 YA Bestseller on June 1, 2021. Beginning in 2021, she began serializing a new YA graphic novel, Darkest Night, on her newsletter. It was published by Scholastic under the title The Deep Dark in 2024.
She is also the writer of a trilogy of middle-grade Dungeons and Dragons books, Dungeon Club, with illustrator Xanthe Bouma.
Molly also writes for children’s TV animation. Notably, she wrote the GLAAD-nominated and Peabody Award Winning episode Enchanting Grom Fright for the Owl House.
Interviews:
Comics Beat (the Girl From the Sea)
Comics Beat (the Witch Boy)
