Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is the 2008 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, a multiple Hugo winner, and a frequent finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards. Kowal was the previous vice-president and secretary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, currently co-hosts the Writing Excuses podcast with Brandon Sanderson, and organized the "Month of Letters" campaign. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and nine manual typewriters.