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CHARLIE JANE ANDERS

Charlie Jane Anders’s (www.charliejane.net) most recent novel is Victories Greater Than Death, the first in a new YA trilogy. She’s also the author of a nonfiction book, Never Say You Can’t Survive, and a new collection, Even Greater Mistakes. Her previous novels are The City in the Middle of the Night, which won a Locus Award; All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Crawford, and Locus awards; and Choir Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Boston Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Wired, Slate, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and many anthologies. Her story “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo Award, and her story “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” won a Theodore Sturgeon Award. Charlie Jane also organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series, and cohosts the Hugo Award–winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct with Annalee Newitz.