Fran Wilde writes science fiction and fantasy and has won a couple of Nebulas. She can also tie a bunch of sailing knots, set gemstones, and program digital minions.

Her first novel, the high-flying fantasy Updraft, was published by Tor in 2015, and won a Nebula and Compton Crook Award. Cloudbound and Horizon—the companion novels to Updraft—completed the trilogy in 2017. All are set in the Bone Universe.

Her debut Middle Grade novel, Riverland, won the 2019 Nebula, was named an NPR Best Book of 2019, and was a Lodestar finalist.

Her novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, four Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include the Hugo and Nebula finalist The Jewel & Her Lapidary, “Unseelie Brothers, Ltd.,” “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand,” and “A Catalog of Storms.” Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years’ best collections.

Her nonfiction appears in publications including TheWashington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and Tor.com. Her poetry has appeared in Fireside Fiction, The Marlboro Review, Articulate, and Poetry Baltimore. Her critical work has appeared in Educause Quarterly. 

Fran holds an MFA in poetry and an MA in information architecture and interaction design. Her digital media projects include games, dynamic widgets, and 3D immersive narratives. She’s taught writing and digital media at two colleges, a high school for the creative arts, and a long-distance program for young writers. The managing editor of The Sunday Morning Transport, Fran teaches for Vermont College of Fine Arts WFCYA MFA and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She is the former director of the Genre Fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University, and has served as an Endeavor Award Judge and on the Andre Norton Jury.

She reads too much and is a friend of the Oxford comma. She is represented by Andrea Somberg at Harvey Klinger.