Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, three Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula-winning and Lodestar finalist, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny, and Jonathan Strahan’s 2020 Year’s Best SFF.  Her nonfiction appears in publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Tor.com. Fran directs the genre fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University. You can find her at: http://franwilde.net