Arkady Martine

Real name: AnnaLinden Weller

1985–

Arkady Martine is the pen name of AnnaLinden Weller, an American writer born in New York City. She studied religious studies at the University of Chicago and classical Armenian studies at Oxford, then completed a doctorate in Byzantine and comparative history at Rutgers University in 2014, going on to teach and research at St. Thomas University and Uppsala University. She has published fiction since 2012 and is best known for the Teixcalaan novels, A Memory Called Empire (2019) and A Desolation Called Peace (2021), both shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is married to the writer Vivian Shaw.

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