The Martian Contingency
About Mary Robinette Kowal
Author, Puppeteer, Narrator

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut Universe, The Spare Man, and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers. She’s a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Nebula, and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, several Year’s Best anthologies and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.
Her novel The Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in a single year. Additionally, she us a USA TODAY bestselling author.
As a professional puppeteer and voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), Mary Robinette has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures, and founded Other Hand Productions. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve.
As an audiobook narrator, she records fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi.
Mary Robinette lives in Denver with her husband Robert, their dog Guppy, their “talking” cat Elsie, and a dozen manual typewriters.
Events
Sandia Starforgers Workshop & Retreat
– Join Mary Robinette Kowal, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Marie Parks for a Writing Retreat & Workshop centered around Worldbuilding. Become an even more confident writer and talented worldbuilder. Generate an immersive environment, culture, magic system, and more for your current science fiction, fantasy, horror, or other speculative fiction work in progress. Our instructors and critiquers include: New York Times bestselling […]
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Mary Robinette will be attending the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 17th in Gaithersburg, MD. More details to come soon! Check out their event page.