Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik grew up in Roslyn Heights on Long Island, New York; she is a second-generation American whose father's family were Lithuanian Jews and whose mother's family were Polish Catholics. She read English literature at Brown and took a master's in computer science at Columbia, working on the game Neverwinter Nights before turning to fiction. Her Temeraire series retells the Napoleonic Wars with dragons; Uprooted, drawn from Polish folklore, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2015. She also helped create the Organization for Transformative Works and co-founded its Archive of Our Own, the fan-fiction archive now used by millions of writers.