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About the author
About the Author
Quiana Baxter is a literary critic, book historian, and lifelong devourer of speculative fiction. She holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and has spent over a decade working as a public librarian specializing in genre fiction. Her passion for post-apocalyptic literature began in high school when she stumbled upon *Alas, Babylon* in her school library and realized that the end of the world could be a starting point for profound human stories.
Since then, Quiana has read more than five hundred post-apocalyptic novels, short stories, and graphic novels, meticulously tracking publication dates, internal timelines, and author connections. She created the *Post-Apocalyptic Reading Order Guide* to address a gap she encountered repeatedly in library patrons and online communities: the confusion of where to start and what to read next. Her goal is to make the genre accessible to everyone, from casual readers to dedicated fans.
Quiana’s work has appeared in *Locus Magazine*, *Strange Horizons*, and the *Los Angeles Review of Books*. She has spoken at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and has run popular reading challenges on Goodreads and The StoryGraph. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her cat, Hobbes, and a bookshelf that is structurally unsound due to the weight of post-apocalyptic paperbacks.
When not reading or writing about the end of the world, Quiana enjoys hiking in the Pacific Northwest, practicing urban gardening (just in case), and binge-watching apocalyptic films with a critical eye. She believes that stories about collapse are ultimately stories about resilience—and that the right reading order can make all the difference.
