Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, a Lodestar and three Hugo Awards, and include her Best of NPR 2019, Nebula-winning Middle Grade debut, Riverland (available now, complete with two starred reviews!), her new gemworld novella, The Fire Opal Mechanism, also available now! her Andre Norton- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, its sequels Cloudbound, and Horizon, and theNebula-, Hugo-, and Locus-nominated novelette The Jewel and Her Lapidary. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, and the 2017 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. (Bibliography.) She writes for publications including The Washington Post, Tor.com, Clarkesworld, iO9.com, and GeekMom.com.