John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969, in Fairfield, California) is an American science fiction author best known for the Old Man's War series. His debut novel, Old Man's War (2005), was a Hugo Award finalist, and Redshirts (2012) won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 2010 to 2013 and has written the long-running blog Whatever since 1998.
Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1996 and raised in Dallas, Texas, after immigrating to the United States at age four, Rebecca F. Kuang writes fantasy and literary fiction under the name R. F. Kuang. She began her debut novel, The Poppy War, at nineteen during a gap year in China spent coaching competitive debate, and published it shortly before turning twenty-two. A trained historian of modern China, she holds a BA in History from Georgetown University, an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge an...
Olivie Blake is the pen name of Alexene Farol Follmuth, an American author of half-Filipino descent born in the Bay Area and now based in Los Angeles. She left law school to write full-time and is best known for The Atlas Six trilogy, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; she also publishes young-adult novels, including My Mechanical Romance, under her legal name.
P. Djèlí Clark is the pen name of Phenderson Djèlí Clark, an American writer of speculative fiction and a historian who teaches at the University of Connecticut. Born in Queens, New York, he was raised largely in Houston, Texas, and spent formative early years in Trinidad and Tobago, his parents' homeland. He holds a doctorate in history from Stony Brook University, where his research focused on emancipation and abolition, and he chose the pen name to keep his fiction apart from his academic wor...