Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee is 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, and is currently pursuing an MFA in media composition and orchestration at ThinkSpace Education. His young adult mecha novel Moonstorm is currently a finalist for the Ignyte Award (YA) and was a finalist for the Nebula Award (YA). Yoon’s novel Ninefox Gambit won the Locus Award for best first novel, and was a finalist for the Nebula and Clarke awards. His middle grade space opera Dragon Pearl from Rick Riordan Presents 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 short fiction has appeared in Reactor (formerly Tor.com), Clarkesworld Magazine, and Audubon Magazine, as well as numerous year’s best anthologies. His TTRPG Ninefox Gambit RPG, co-authored with Marie Brennan, was a Nebula finalist in game writing. He has written comic scripts for Marvel (Doom’s Division #1-5 and “Epée Is Truth” in The X-Men: The Wedding Special #1). Yoon’s hobbies include game design, art, and destroying the reader. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy catten. (Source: www.yoonhalee.com)