R. J. Anderson

R. J. (Rebecca) Anderson isn't trying to pretend she's not female, she just thinks her initials look writerly. The daughter of a Bible teacher who read Tolkien and Lewis aloud to his children, she grew up daydreaming about Narnia and Middle-Earth, watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa, and hanging out in her brothers' comic book shop. Now she writes novels about knife-wielding faeries, weird science, and the numinous in the modern world.

Her debut novel Knife was longlisted for the Carnegie Award in 2009 and became a UK bestseller; it and its sequels Rebel and Arrow are now being re-released in US paperback and e-book by Enclave Publishing. Her teen thriller Ultraviolet was shortlisted for the 2012 Andre Norton (Nebula) award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian SF, and was followed by a companion novel, Quicksilver (2013). Her newest book is a magical mystery-adventure called A Pocket Full of Murder (Atheneum, September 2015).