Leckie's debut novel Ancillary Justice, the first book of the Imperial Radch space opera trilogy, was published to critical acclaim in October 2013 and won all of the principal English-language science fiction awards (see Ann Leckie#Awards and nominations). She served as the secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 2012 to 2013. She edited the science fiction and fantasy online magazine Giganotosaurus from 2010 to 2013, and is assistant editor of the PodCastle podcast. Her short stories have been selected for inclusion in year's best collections, such as The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton. Leckie has published numerous short stories, in outlets including Subterranean Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Realms of Fantasy. After that, she wrote Ancillary Justice over a period of six years it was picked up by the publisher Orbit in 2012 and published the following year. In 2005, Leckie attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop, where she studied under Octavia Butler. Īfter giving birth to her children in 19, boredom as a stay-at-home mother motivated her to sketch a first draft of what would become Ancillary Justice for National Novel Writing Month 2002.

One of her few publications from that time was an unattributed bodice-ripper in True Confessions. Louis, Missouri, Leckie's attempts in her youth to get her science fiction works published were unsuccessful. Having grown up as a science fiction fan in St. Leckie's first fantasy novel, The Raven Tower, was published in February 2019.

Provenance, published in 2017, is also set in the Imperial Radch universe. The sequels, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy, each won the Locus Award and were nominated for the Nebula Award. Her 2013 debut novel Ancillary Justice, in part about artificial consciousness and gender-blindness, won the 2014 Hugo Award for 'Best Novel', as well as the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, BSFA Award, Locus AwardĪnn Leckie (born 2 March 1966 ) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Ann Leckie receiving the Hugo Award in 2014

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