Yoon Ha Lee

A Korean-American sf/f writer who received a B.A. in math from Cornell University and an M.A. in math education from Stanford University, Yoon finds it a source of continual delight that math can be mined for story ideas. Yoon’s novel NINEFOX GAMBIT won the Locus Award for best first novel, and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards; its sequels, RAVEN STRATAGEM and REVENANT GUN, were also Hugo finalists. His middle grade space opera DRAGON PEARL won the Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature and the Locus Award for best YA novel, and was a New York Times bestseller. Yoon’s hobbies include composing music, art, and destroying the reader. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy catten.