Ekaterina Sedia was born in Russia on July 9, 1970. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in
New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D. She is best known as a fantasy author. Her most famous work is
The Alchemy of Stone, a steampunk novel that examines sexism and class bigotry. Sedia’s other novels include
The Secret History of Moscow,
According to Crow, and
The House of Discarded Dreams. She has also written several short fiction stories, poems, and nonfiction books. Several of her publications have been nominated for awards and/or have made a well-known reading list. In addition, Sedia was the editor for Jigsaw Nation and the
World Fantasy Award-winning
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy. When Sedia is not busy writing, she teaches several ecology and evolution courses as a professor at
Stockton University in
Galloway, New Jersey.