About the Author
Martha Wells was born in 1964 in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in Anthropology. She is the author of fourteen SF/F novels, including The Element of Fire, City of Bones, Wheel of the Infinite, The Wizard Hunters, and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer. Forthcoming novels include a YA fantasy, Emilie and the Hollow World, due out in April of 2013, and a second YA fantasy and a Star Wars novel due out in 2014. She has had short stories in Black Gate, Lone Star Stories, Realms of Fantasy, and the anthologies Elemental, Tales of the Emerald Serpent, and The Other Half of the Sky, and essays in the nonfiction anthologies Farscape Forever, Mapping the World of Harry Potter, and Chicks Unravel Time. She also has two Stargate Atlantis media-tie-in novels: Reliquary and Entanglement. Her books have been published in seven languages. She lives in College Station, Texas, with her husband. Her web site is www.marthawells.com.