Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis, son of a bearded mountebank and a discredited tarot card reader, is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels: The Milkweed Triptych series (Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War, and Necessary Evil), Something More Than Night, and The Alchemy Wars trilogy (The Mechanical, The Rising, and The Liberation). His short fiction has appeared in numerous venues including Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Tor.com, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and Best New Horror. He is a member of George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards consortium, and he penned six episodes of The Witch Who Came in From the Cold for Serial Box Publishing. A 2005 graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, he holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Minnesota and works at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico with his playwright wife, Sara, where they consort with writers, scientists, and other disreputable types.