Rebecca Roanhorse

In February 2019, Roanhorse's novel Trail of Lightning was nominated for 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel. In April 2019, it was also nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel. In June 2019, Trail of Lightning won the 2019 Locus Award for Best First Novel. Trail of Lightning was also nominated for the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

In 2018 Roanhorse received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short story "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" (Apex Magazine 2017) won two major awards: the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. The story also earned her nominations for the 2018 Locus Award for Best Short Story, the 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.

"I think a lot of Native characters that we see are stuck in the past. So it was important for me to do that, to show Native American readers and non-Native American readers that we're alive and we're thriving in our cultures", she said in 2018.

Rebecca Roanhorse (born 1971) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer from New Mexico. She has written short stories and science fiction novels featuring Navajo characters. Her work received Hugo and Nebula awards, among others.

Rebecca Roanhorse was born in Conway, Arkansas, and has stated in her biographies and interviews that she is of African-American and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo heritage. She was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where she says she found it difficult to be Black and Native in the 1970s and 1980s; thus, she turned to reading and writing, especially science fiction, as a form of escape. She lived for several years in the Navajo Nation, calls it her second home, and travels back there regularly to visit family. She currently lives in New Mexico with her husband, who is Navajo, their daughter, and pug Lucy.