All the Birds in the Sky (Tor), a novel published in 2016, received an Otherwise Award honorable mention, placed sixth in the Goodreads Choice Awards for the Fantasy category (garnering nearly fourteen thousand votes!), was a Hugo finalist, won both a Nebula Award and a Locus Award, and took the fifth spot on the Time Magazine list of the year’s ten best novels. The 2011 novelette “Six Months, Three Days” ( Tor.com) was a Sturgeon and Nebula award finalist and won a Hugo Award. To date she has well over one hundred stories published: her nonfiction and fiction appears in a range of publications, from literary notables such as McSweeney’s and Mother Jones to technologically inclined venues such as WIRED and MIT Technology Review to well-established genre magazines like Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and Tor.com.Īnders’ 2005 debut novel, Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press) won a Lambda Literary Award and was short listed for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, but this was just the beginning. She studied English and Asian literature at Cambridge University and studied abroad in China.

It’s kind of breathtaking and suggests unfathomable creativity.Īnders was born in Connecticut and grew up in Mansfield.

She comes up with highly entertaining, whimsical, and in-some-world probable introductions, individualized for each person she introduces. If you ever get to see Charlie Jane Anders host an event where she introduces people, you will be amazed by the way she sparkles but you’ll also be astonished by her creative prowess.

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