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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
Cancelled – MRK at Gen Con 2026
I unfortunately had to cancel my appearance at Gen Con this year, but please say hello to my fellow hosts of the Writing Excuses podcast. For more information, visit the convention website.
MRK Teaches Virtual Class: “Building a Story from Research”
Live-streaming Class for Writers by Mary Robinette Kowal “Building a Story from Research” Monday, August 3 at 8 PM ET (moved from its former time of Monday, July 27 at 8 PM ET) Everyone has read an interesting newspaper article or learned a random factoid and wondered how to turn it into a piece of fiction, […]
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