Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for four Nebula awards, two Hugo Awards, and a World Fantasy Award. They include her Nebula/Andre Norton- and Compton Crook-winning debut novel, Updraft (Tor, 2015); its sequels, Cloudbound and Horizon; the double-starred middle-grade novel Riverland (Abrams); and the Hugo-, Locus-, and Nebula-Finalist novelette “The Jewel and Her Lapidary.” Her short stories and essays appear in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, and Uncanny Magazine. Fran is the Director of the Genre MFA Concentration at Western Colorado University. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and at franwilde.net.