Ann Leckie

Ann Leckie is an American science fiction author who won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel twice consecutively—for Ancillary Sword (2015) and Ancillary Mercy (2016)—as well as the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Ancillary Justice (2014). Her Imperial Radch trilogy is a landmark of contemporary science fiction, renowned for its exploration of gender, empire, and consciousness. Born in Rochester, New York, Leckie studied music and worked various jobs before the publication of Ancillary Justice (2013), her debut novel, which became one of the most award-winning debut SF novels of all time, sweeping the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA, and Locus awards. The novel's protagonist is the fragment of a once-vast artificial intelligence that served as a warship for a galactic empire. Leckie has also written the standalone fantasy novel The Raven Tower and the Sword and Flower duology. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.