Charlie Jane Anders is an American journalist, editor, and fiction writer. Her novel Choir Boy (Soft Skull, 2005) won a Lambda Literary Award in 2005, and her Tor.com story "Six Months, Three Days" won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Her journalism and other writing has appeared in, among other venues, Salon, the Bay Guardian, the New York Press, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, and the Wall Street Journal. With Annalee Newitz, she edited the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write about Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (Seal Press, 2006). She lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she is the managing editor of the science fiction website io9.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include
All the Birds in the Sky,
The City in the Middle of the Night and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection
Even Greater Mistakes, and
Never Say You Can't Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running
New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the
Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
