Lavanya Lakshminarayan is the multiple award winning author of Ten Percent Thief listed as one of the 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire Magazine. She's the first Indian woman to be shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the winner of the Times of India AutHer Award and the Valley of Words Award, and a Locus Award finalist. Her new novel, Interstellar Megachef, is out November 2024. She’s sometimes a game designer, and has built worlds for Zynga Inc.’s FarmVille and Mafia Wars, among other games. She lives in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India.