Kameron Hurley is the author of the novels "God's War, Infidel", and "Rapture" a science-fantasy noir series which earned her the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschies Award for Best Debut Novel. She has won the Hugo Award (twice), and been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the BSFA Award for Best Novel. Her most recent novel is the epic fantasy The Mirror Empire. The sequel, "Empire Ascendant", will be out in October 2015. She writes regularly for "Locus Magazine".