MARIA LEWIS is an award-winning screenwriter, best-selling author and pop culture etymologist. She's the author of the internationally published Supernatural Sisters series of eight novels, which includes the Aurealis Award-winning The Witch Who Courted Death (Best Fantasy Novel), along with titles for Marvel ( Mockingbird: Strike Out ), Angry Robot ( The Graveyard Shift ) and Assassin's Creed ( Mirage: Daughter Of No One ). As a screenwriter, she has worked on projects for Netflix, AMC, Ubisoft, DC Comics, SBS, Nickelodeon, ABC and many more. She's the producer, host and writer of audio AWGIE and Aurealis Award-winning documentaries The Phantom Never Dies - about the first superhero - and Josie and the Podcats - about the 2001 cult film. Her directorial debut The House That Hungers premiered in 2023, based on her award-winning short story of the same name.