Marvel’s current Black Panther series—a comic written by Ta-Nehisi Coates—is getting a new companion series: World of Wakanda.

According to The New York Times, Roxane Gay (The Bad Feminist, 2014) and the poet Yona Harvey (Hemming the Water, 2013) will write World of Wakanda; the series will feature a female revolutionary who also appears in the first issue of the Black Panther series.

Coates, author of the National Book Award–winning Between the World and Me (2015) and national correspondent for The Atlantic, told the Times that it was important to him to have female writers write female characters.

“The women in Black Panther’s life are very, very important,” he said, adding that Gay’s reading of a ‘zombie’ short story at a conference a few years ago had impressed him. “It was the most surprising, unexpected, coolest zombie story you ever want to see. When we started thinking about writers, she popped up right away.”

Coates also chose Harvey as a cowriter because “I have found that poetry is so correlated with writing comic books. That’s (sic) just so little space, and you have to speak with so much power. I thought she’d be a natural.”

Gay told the Times, “It’s the most bizarre thing I’ve ever done,” referring to the new process of writing a comic, “and I mean that in the best possible way.”

World of Wakanda will premiere in November.

Related reading: US Congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis received the prestigious Eisner award for the second volume of his graphic novel memoir, March, reports the Guardian.

Image Credit: Marvel Entertainment.