Jade City was included on Time magazine's list 'The Best Fantasy Books of All Time'. Jade City won the 2018 World Fantasy Award and Aurora Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel and 2018 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her debut novel for adults, Jade City, the first in The Green Bone Saga, was published by Orbit Books in 2017 to critical acclaim. Her 2020 short story, 'I (28M) Created a Deepfake Girlfriend and Now My Parents Think We're Getting Married', was nominated for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Short Story. Her 2017 short story ' Old Souls', was published in Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy, and was nominated for the 2018 Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction and the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. The second volume, Cross Fire, was published in 2018, was nominated for the 2019 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel, and won the 2019 Aurora Award for Best YA Novel. Lee's Exo series for young adults was published by Scholastic beginning in 2017 with the first volume, Exo, which was well received by critics, was nominated for the 2017 Andre Norton Award, and won the 2018 Aurora Award for Best YA Novel in a tie. It received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, which described it as 'top-notch science fiction and a great sports novel too'. Lee's debut young adult science fiction novel, Zeroboxer, was published by Flux Books and nominated for the 2016 Andre Norton Award.

Lee is a martial artist and has earned black belts in karate and kung fu. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a corporate strategist. She attended Stanford University where she earned her MBA. Lee was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and currently resides in Portland, Oregon in the United States. The Green Bone Saga was also included on NPR's list, '50 Favorite Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade'. She is best known for writing The Green Bone Saga, the first of which, Jade City, won the 2018 World Fantasy Award and was named one of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Time magazine.

Fonda Lee (born March 10, 1979) is a Canadian-American author of speculative fiction.

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