Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Aug 2025), about a young witch who teaches her heartbroken mother how to do magic.

Previously, she published the Unstoppable trilogy, which began with Victories Greater Than Death. The trilogy has been optioned by Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society and Amazon Prime Video, and all three books won the Locus Award and were shortlisted for the Lodestar Award.

Her writing advice book Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. She also recently published a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. Her previous novels for adults include All the Birds in the Sky (2016) and The City in the Middle of the Night (2019). Her work has won the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda Literary, Crawford, Sturgeon and Locus Awards.

Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" has been viewed nearly four million times.

With Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane co-hosts a podcast about the meaning of science fiction called Our Opinions Are Correct.

Charlie Jane hugs trees, and keeps a British penny in her left shoe at all times.