About

MacKenzie Cadenhead was born and raised in New York City, where she mastered her driver’s ed lessons on the Lower East Side but never quite learned how to ride a bike. She has a BA in English from Haverford College and an MFA in Dramaturgy from Brooklyn College. Favorite past employment includes pizza delivery person, IHOP waitress, production dramaturg, and comic book editor at Marvel Comics (not in that order).

These days she writes children’s books and comics, and reads them to her family, both human and canine. She is the author of comic books (the award-winning Marvel Mutts, Dogpool, Doom Academy), chapter books (the Marvel Super Hero Adventures series, the After-School Heroes series), middle grade (Sally’s Bones), and YA (Sleeper). MacKenzie’s debut picture book, Jingle, comes out October 2026.