Arkady Martine
AnnaLinden Weller, better known under her pen name Arkady Martine (born April 19, 1985), is an American historian, city planner, and author of science fiction literature. She received the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel for her debut novel A Memory Ca
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AnnaLinden Weller, better known under her pen name Arkady Martine (born April 19, 1985), is an American historian, city planner, and author of science fiction literature. She received the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel for her debut novel A Memory Called Empire (2019).
Weller was born and grew up in New York City. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. Her parents are classical musicians of Russian Jewish heritage: her mother is a professor of violin at Juilliard and her father played for the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera; she has described herself as an "assimilated American Jew" and noted that, in the 1930s, Jews who moved to the United States from Europe "were basically playing classical music and inventing the Anglophone discipline of science fiction at the same time". She is also a climate activist.
Weller obtained a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies at the University of Chicago in 2007, a Master of Studies in classical Armenian studies at the University of Oxford in 2013, and a Ph.D. in medieval Byzantine, global, and comparative history at Rutgers University in 2014. Her dissertation was titled "Imagining Pre-Modern Empire: Byzantine Imperial Agents Outside the Metropole". She was a visiting assistant professor of history at St. Thomas University from 2014–15 and a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University from 2015–17. She has published writings on the topic of Byzantine and medieval Armenian history.
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