A person with short black hair and glasses, wearing a dark jacket, looks up at the camera and smiles slightly. The background is out of focus and appears to be a light-colored paved surface.

Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee’s debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards. Its sequel, Raven Strategem, was a finalist for the Hugo. His middle grade space opera, Dragon Pearl, is forthcoming from Disney-Hyperion’s Rick Riordan Presents imprint in January 2019. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.