Martha Wells is the author of nine fantasy novels, including Wheel of the Infinite, City of Bones, The Element of Fire, and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer. Her most recent novel is The Cloud Roads, to be published in March 2011 by Night Shade Books, with the sequel The Serpent Sea scheduled for 2012. She has had short stories in the magazines Realms of Fantasy, Black Gate, and Stargate Magazine, and in the Tsunami Relief anthology Elemental. She also has essays in the nonfiction anthologies Farscape Forever and Mapping the World of Harry Potter from BenBella Books. She has also written two media-tie-in novels, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary and Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement. Her books have been published in eight languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, and Dutch.

Martha Wells’s website can be found at http://www.marthawells.com.