Arkady Martine
Born 19 April 1985
From New York City, New York, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction
Pseudonym for Dr AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantium Empire and a city planner.
Note: Wife of Vivian Shaw
Quotes
“Urban planning is a long history of cities (and their planners) seeing, and deliberately not seeing, the people who live in them. Working in city planning makes me consider the city as an organism, as a machine for living in…”
On how being a city planner affects her writing in “Questions For Arkady Martine “I feel as if empire is something that is either taken for granted in space opera—uninterrogated, simply present as a fact of worldbuilding—or it is rendered so evil as to be incomprehensibly bad…”
On how her writings wrestle with the concept of colonialism in “AN INTERVIEW WIT “Fanfiction lets you share the kind of story you like with other people who take delight in it, too, and lets you participate in making that sort of story for those people…”
On how fanfiction has affected her life in “AN INTERVIEW WITH ARKADY MARTINE” in
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Arkady Martine in order
Books by Arkady Martine in the order they were published, from A Memory Called Empire (2019) to Rose/House (2024).
