Aliette de Bodard has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a European Science Fiction Society Award, a British Fantasy Award and six BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Awards. She is the author of Navigational Entanglements (forthcoming summer 2024), as well as A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo set in space. She also wrote The Red Scholar’s Wake (2022 BSFA Award finalist, 2022 Locus Award finalist, 2022 Clarke Award finalist), a lesbian space pirates romance set in Vietnamese-inspired galactic empires. She is well-known for the multi-award-winning, Hugo-award nominated series The Universe of Xuya, Vietnamese-inspired space opera with sentient spaceships. Finally, she is the author of the Dragons and Blades series, comedies of manners, murders and family shenanigans set in a Gothic Vietnamese court, which comprise Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders and Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances (2022 BSFA Award Winner). She lives in Paris, France.