Yoon Ha Lee is a Korean-American sf/f writer who received a B.A. in math from Cornell University and an M.A. in math education from Stanford University, and is pursuing an MFA in media composition and orchestration at ThinkSpace Education. Yoon’s novel NINEFOX GAMBIT won the Locus Award for best first novel, and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards. His middle grade space opera DRAGON PEARL won the Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature and the Locus Award for best YA novel, and was a New York Times bestseller. His YA mecha novel MOONSTORM is currently a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. His TTRPG Ninefox Gambit RPG, co-authored with Marie Brennan, was a Nebula finalist in game writing. He has written comic scripts for Marvel (“Epée Is Truth” in The X-Men: The Wedding Special #1 and Doom’s Division #1-5, starting March 2025). Yoon’s hobbies include game design, art, and destroying the reader. He lives in Louisiana with his family and a lazy catten.