Ann Leckie

Ann Leckie is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, born in Toledo, Ohio, and based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her debut novel, Ancillary Justice (2013), won the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction Association awards and began the Imperial Radch series, which went on to win the Hugo Award for Best Series.

She has also written the fantasy novel The Raven Tower, the novels Provenance and Translation State, and short fiction collected in Lake of Souls, which won the Locus Award for Best Collection. She studied at the Clarion West workshop in 2005 and served as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.