Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik is an American fantasy novelist who lives and writes in New York City. She studied English literature at Brown University and computer science at Columbia, and worked on the design of a computer role-playing game before turning to fiction. She is also a founder of the Organization for Transformative Works and its fan fiction archive, Archive of Our Own.

Her first novel, His Majesty's Dragon, launched the nine-book Temeraire series and was a Hugo Award finalist. She later turned to fairy tales and folklore with Uprooted, which won the Nebula Award, and Spinning Silver, a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin that was a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her Scholomance trilogy begins with A Deadly Education. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.

The Summer War (2025), a novella set in the same world as Uprooted and Spinning Silver, follows Celia, a young witch who curses her eldest brother in a moment of anger and must find a way to undo it.