Lea Hernandez is the creator of the popular Rumble Girls comic series. Set in the future, the series tells of a group of girls who wear body armor called HardSkin and, in a combination of roller derby and professional wrestling, battle among themselves in front of a large audience. The problems of transitory fame, the fear of failure, and the machinations of faceless media corporations are the subjects found in the Rumble Girls stories. Hernandez has also written graphic novels, including the award-winning Cathedral Child.

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Hernandez was born in Alameda, California, and raised in various places throughout the country as her family moved wherever her U.S. Navy officer father was assigned. She spent many years living in Texas, a state she has returned to in her adulthood to live with her husband and two children. Hernandez began drawing comics when she was about eleven or...