Alverne Ball has an M.F.A in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. His forthcoming historical graphic novel is set to be published by Abrams comic arts in 2026. He is the contributing writer to the graphic novel, Epiphany Engine (Advent comics 2025), as well a contributing writer to Shook: a Black horror anthology (Dark Horse comics 2024).  He is the writer of Across the Tracks (Abrams 2021), a homage to Greenwood, Oklahoma, illustrated by Stacey Robinson, as well as the graphic novels Virgin Wolf and Dime: a choose your own adventure mystery ( Arion Digital Media Group 2016). He is also the writer/creator of two web comics, When We Were Kings and Zulu, in partnership with Afropunk.com. Mr. Ball is the 2019 inaugural Tin House Graphic Novel Scholar as well as the 2018 headlining Graphic Novelist for Chicago’s Teen Lit Festival.  A recipient of the first ever Luminarts graphic novel writing award, he has also twice received the Glyph Rising Star award for his writing on the One Nation comic series.  His is also the author of two crime novels, Only The Holy Remain and Blue Religion (Sacramentum Press, 2018, 2022) He has written comic and graphic novel material for such companies as Di Bona Ventura Productions, Paramount Pictures, Mcgraw-Hill,  Lion Forge Comics, New Paradigm Entertainment, Campfire Graphic Novels