Author Victor LaValle wrote the short-story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, and the novels The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, The Changeling and Lone Women. His fantasy-horror tale The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. LaValle made his Marvel Comics debut with Sabretooth, following that with its sequel, Sabretooth & The Exiles, before collaborating with fellow writer Benjamin Percy on the ""Sabretooth War"" arc of Wolverine.