Rebecca Roanhorse is the New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts, Black Sun, and Star Wars: Resistance Reborn. She has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards for her fiction, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding Award for Best New Writer. The next book in her Between Earth and Sky series, Fevered Star, is out in April 2022. She lives in New Mexico with her family.
"""Rebecca Roanhorse... [is one] of the Indigenous novelists reshaping North American science fiction, horror and fantasy -- genres in which Native writers have long been overlooked.""-- ""The New York Times"" ""The pages turn themselves. A beautifully crafted setting with complex character dynamics and layers of political intrigue? Perfection. Mark your calendars, this is the next big thing.""--Kirkus, starred review ""A a razor-sharp examination of politics, generational trauma, and the path to redemption...Roanhorse strikes a perfect balance between powerful worldbuilding and rich thematic exploration as the protagonists struggle against their fates. Fantasy fans will be wowed."" -- ""Publishers Weekly, starred review"" ""Absolutely tremendous. Roanhorse knocks it out of the park again with an epic tale about duty and destiny that will sweep readers away and broaden the horizons of an entire genre.""--S.A. Chakraborty, nationally bestselling author of The City of Brass. ""Engrossing and vibrant. Black Sun left me with my jaw on the floor.""--Tochi Oneybuchi, author of Riot Baby ""I emerged from Black Sun bleary-eyed, tongue-tied, heart-swollen. This is a brilliant world that shows the full panoply of human grace and depravity. Rebecca Roanhorse is the epic voice of our continent and time.""--Ken Liu, award-winning author of The Grace of Kings, and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. ""The world sucks you in from the start, and the pacing yanks you along by the collar. Black Sun is instantly riveting from the beginning--Roanhorse is at the top of her game here.""--R.F. Kuang, bestselling author of The Poppy War ""This is the novel I've been waiting for. This is the novel we've all been waiting for. Everything's different now, with Black Sun. Different and better. Stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best fantasy out there. There's Martin, there's Jemisin, and now there's Roanhorse.""--Stephen Graham Jones, award-winning author of The Only Good Indians, and Mongrels Roanhorse introduces an epic fantasy with vivid worldbuilding and exciting prose. Readers will be attracted to the story, in which there is no real right vs. wrong. Only inevitable change will draw out the heroes of this imaginative tale. -- Library Journal, (starred review)"