Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the USA Today bestselling, Compton Crook Award-winning author of The Splinter in the Sky, the forthcoming novella This World Is Not Yours, and the forthcoming novel The King Must Die. She studied organismic & evolutionary biology and astrophysics at Harvard, and is now pursuing a PhD in the Earth & Planetary Sciences department at Stanford.
Her short fiction has appeared or will appear in Tor.com, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, The Sunday Morning Transport, Clarkesworld Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and Luna Station Quarterly.