Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award-winning author Max Gladstone’s works include Wicked Problems (Tordotcom, 2024), Last Exit (Tor, 2022), Empress of Forever (Tor, 2019), the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and games, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the New York Times-bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War (Saga, 2019). His interactive projects include the XYZZY-finalist Choice of the Deathless and Deathless: The City’s Thirst, which take place in the world of the Craft Sequence. Gladstone created the Serial Box series Bookburners, and the interactive television series Wizard School Dropout.
Gladstone studied Chinese literature at Yale, and lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province. He regularly teaches at the Viable Paradise writer's workshop. He has wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, sung at Carnegie Hall, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia.