Fonda Lee

Fonda Lee (born March 10, 1979 in Calgary , Canada ) is a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy writer.

Life

Fonda Lee grew up in Calgary and then lived in Toronto and the San Francisco Bay Area . She studied at Stanford University , where she graduated with a Masters . She then worked as a corporate consultant and, most recently, in corporate strategy at Nike before becoming a full-time writer.

In 2014 Lee participated in the Viable Paradise workshop for SF authors, and in 2015 her first novel Zeroboxer was published . This, as well as the two novels in the Exo series, was aimed at young people. The fantasy novel Jade City , first volume in the cycle The Green Bone Saga , won the World Fantasy and Aurora Awards in 2018 and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards. Lee was a finalist at the Andre Norton Awards with the novels Zeroboxer and Exo .

Lee has two children and lives in Portland , Oregon . She practices martial arts with a black belt in karate and kung fu .

Awards

• 2018: World Fantasy Award for the novel Jade City
• 2018: Aurora Award for the novel Jade City (Best Novel) and for Exo (Young Adult Novel)

bibliography

Exo

• 1 Exo (2017)
• 2 Cross Fire (2018)

Novels

• Zeroboxer (2015)
• Jade City ( The Green Bone Saga # 1, 2017)
• Jade War ( The Green Bone Saga # 2, 2019)

Short stories

• Universal Print (2015)
• Spectral (2016)
• Old Souls (2017)

literature

• Christian A. Coleman: Interview: Fonda Lee . In: Lightspeed Magazine # 92 (January 2108).
• Stephen H. Segal: Fonda Lee: When the Alien Invaders Win. In: Locus # 690 (July 2018), excerpts online .

Web links

• Fonda Lee in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Fonda Lee in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Fonda Lee at Open Library
• Fonda Lee (official website)
• Fonda Lee , Tumblr weblog
• Fonda Lee in Fantastic Fiction (English)