She first purchased X-Men and Wolverine comics for reference for her fanfic from Powerhouse Comics in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Although she had never read comic books as a child, she was familiar with the X-Men through the animated TV series and via fan fiction. During her undergraduate years, she practiced her web design skills by designing a fan site called The Wolverine and Jubilee page, after her discovery of numerous X-Men fan sites that she admired. Liu majored in East Asian Languages and Cultures and minored in Biomedical Ethics at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She developed an early love of reading, from books such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Campbell, Charles de Lint and Jorge Luis Borges. Her father is Taiwanese, while her mother is an American of French, Scottish and Irish descent. Liu was born in Philadelphia, and grew up in Seattle, Washington. In July 2018 she became the first woman in the 30-year history of the Eisner Awards to win the Eisner Award for Best Writer for her work on Monstress. In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for the first Monstress trade paperback collection. In 2015 Image Comics debuted her creator-owned series Monstress, for which she was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series. Her work for Marvel Comics includes NYX, X-23, Dark Wolverine, and Astonishing X-Men. She is acclaimed for her horror fantasy comic Monstress, and her paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels including The Hunter Kiss and Tiger Eye series. Liu is an American New York Times best-selling author and comic book writer. Adventure, urban fantasy, romance, superhero fantasy

Monstress, Vol. 3 by Marjorie M. Liu