Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian author best known for Station Eleven, a post-apocalyptic novel that won the Arthur C. Clarke Award (2015) and was adapted into an acclaimed HBO Max miniseries in 2021. She is also the author of The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility. Born in 1979 on Denman Island, British Columbia, Mandel trained as a dancer before turning to writing. Her early novels were literary crime fiction. Station Eleven, about a traveling Shakespearean theater company surviving in the aftermath of a flu pandemic, became one of the defining literary novels of its decade and took on new resonance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sea of Tranquility (2022), her most recent novel, interweaves timelines across several centuries. Mandel lives in New York City.