Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the USA Today bestselling, Compton Crook Award-winning author of The Splinter in the Sky, the forthcoming novella This World Is Not Yours, and the forthcoming novel The King Must Die. She studied organismic & evolutionary biology and astrophysics at Harvard, and is now pursuing a PhD in the Earth & Planetary Sciences department at Stanford. Her short fiction has appeared or will appear in Tor.com, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, The Sunday Morning Transport, Clarkesworld Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and Luna Station Quarterly.

She is represented by Tricia Skinner of Fuse Literary.

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the USA Today bestselling, Compton Crook Award-winning author of The Splinter in the Sky, This World Is Not Yours, The King Must Die, and several short stories. She studied integrative biology and astrophysics at Harvard, and is now pursuing a PhD in Earth & Planetary Sciences at Stanford.

Photo credit: Toni Bird for Stanford Magazine