Charlie Jane Anders is an American journalist, editor, and fiction writer. Her novel Choir Boy (Soft Skull, 2005) won a Lambda Literary Award in 2005, and her Tor.com story "Six Months, Three Days" won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Her journalism and other writing has appeared in, among other venues, Salon, the Bay Guardian, the New York Press, Mother Jones, McSweeney's, and the Wall Street Journal. With Annalee Newitz, she edited the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write about Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (Seal Press, 2006). She lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she is the managing editor of the science fiction website io9.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of
Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy, along with the short story collection
Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include
The City in the Middle of the Night and
All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
Slate,
McSweeney's,
Mother Jones, the
Boston Review,
Tor.com,
Tin House,
Conjunctions,
Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.