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.