Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is an American author, translator, art director and puppeteer. She is best known for the Lady Astronaut series, beginning with The Calculating Stars and continuing in The Relentless Moon, and for the mystery Spare Man. She has won four Hugo Awards as well as a Nebula and a Locus, and she served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 2019 to 2021. She also worked on puppetry for Jim Henson Productions and LazyTown.