Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire, a climate and energy policy analyst, and a city planner. Under both names she writes about border politics, narrative and rhetoric, risk communication, and the edges of the world.

She currently works as the New Mexico Senior Policy Advisor for Clean Energy at Western Resource Advocates, an environmental and clean energy nonprofit, where she specializes in utility regulation and legislative advocacy for energy grid modernization, climate change mitigation, and resiliency planning. Her debut novel, A Memory Called Empire, won the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and its sequel, A Desolation Called Peace, won the 2022 Hugo Award in the same category. Her latest novella, Rose/House, was nominated for the 2024 Hugo for Best Novella and won China’s 2024 Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Award for Best International Novella. Rose/House appeared in international wide release from Tor Publishing Group in March 2025.

Arkady grew up in New York City, and after some time in Turkey, Canada, Sweden, and Baltimore, lives in New Mexico with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw.

Photo credit: Karen Osborne.

(Source: Author's personal site.)