Ekaterina Sedia
| Ekaterina Sedia | |
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| Born | Ekaterina Holland July 9, 1970 Moscow, Russia |
| Pen name | E. Sedia |
| Occupation | Novelist, botany and plant ecology professor |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden |
| Genre | Fantasy, steampunk, urban fantasy |
| Notable works | The Alchemy of Stone |
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Ekaterina Sedia (born July 9, 1970) is a Russian fantasy writer. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D. She is best known as a fantasy author. Her most famous work is The Alchemy of Stone, a steampunk novel that examines sexism and class bigotry. Sedia’s other novels include The Secret History of Moscow, According to Crow, and The House of Discarded Dreams. She has also written several short fiction stories, poems, and nonfiction books. Several of her publications have been nominated for awards and/or have made a well-known reading list. In addition, Sedia was the editor for Jigsaw Nation and the World Fantasy Award-winning Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy. In addition to writing, she teaches ecology and evolution courses as a professor at in Galloway, New Jersey.
Ekaterina Sedia was born on July 9, 1970 in Moscow, Russia, as Ekaterina Holland. She grew up in Moscow and attended Moscow State University; at 21, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a research assistant at MIT’s Department of Brain Cognitive Sciences. She later attended graduate school in New Jersey at Rutgers University, where she received a degree in plant ecology. Sedia currently teaches plant ecology and botany at Stockton College and lives with her husband Christopher Sedia and their cats. In her spare time, she blogs about fashion, food, cats, books, television, and feminism.
Ekaterina Sedia attended Moscow State University. She then moved to Boston and worked at MIT’s department of brain and cognitive sciences as a research assistant. After that she moved to New Jersey and went to graduate school at Rutgers University-Camden, which is where she got her degree in ecology and evolution in 2001. Today she works at teaching plant ecology and evolution.
In this story set in Sium, Josiah lives in a world where even though the war is over it is still not great times. The war had been over for seventeen years: however, there is no doubt the Meran Empire would expand. Josiah meets Caleb and they become friends. The two boys leave the country for fear of being persecuted and they find a strange world. A war is about to happen and Josiah must choose sides and potentially betray his heritage.
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