Stephanie Saulter is Jamaican by birth, heritage and upbringing, a Londoner by choice, and spent 15+ years in America along the way. She was educated at Mannings School (Jamaica) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). She’s worked in the private, public and non-profit sectors of three countries, including roles in hotels and property development, affordable housing provision, a district heating and community energy startup and various public policy initiatives.

Her first novel, Gemsigns, was published in 2013 and was followed by Binary and Regeneration. They’re science fiction which uses the lens of an altered humanity to take a new look at the old issues of race, class, religious extremism and social conflict. She is primarily a novelist but has also published the short stories Audiovisionary and Discordances. She’s currently seeking publication for her fourth novel, Sacred, which is a magical realist take on the power of storytelling.

Stephanie has read at venues large and small, from the Calabash Literary Festival to Unsung Live, and has been a panelist at the Women of the World Festival at Southbank Centre; the annual conventions of the World Science Fiction Society, the British Science Fiction Association, Nine Worlds and various others; and been guest of honour of the Science Fiction Foundation. She’s enjoyed guest lectures to undergraduates at the universities of Notre Dame (London campus) and Chichester. She contributed to the BBC Radio 4 documentary Herland and has served as a judge for the James White Award for short fiction and the Una Marson Award for unpublished novels/creative non-fiction by a Jamaican author.