Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine is the pen name of AnnaLinden Weller, an American science fiction writer who also works as a historian of the Byzantine Empire and as a city planner. Her Teixcalaan series opens with A Memory Called Empire and continues with A Desolation Called Peace, and each of those two novels won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The books are space operas set within the Teixcalaan Empire.