Aliette de Bodard is a prolific French-American speculative fiction writer. She resides and works in Paris, and has achieved remarkable success in her field, garnering three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award, and four British Science Fiction Association Awards. Her work has also brought her to the forefront as a double Hugo finalist in 2019 for both Best Series and Best Novella.

Her literary contributions include the sapphic romantic fantasy Fireheart Tiger, set in a pre-colonial Vietnam-inspired world. This narrative follows a diplomat princess who is faced with critical decisions regarding her country's fate and her personal destiny. Additionally, she authored Seven of Infinities, a space opera that unites a sentient spaceship and a scholar in an unexpected alliance to solve a murder, leading to a romantic entanglement between the two. Other notable works are Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders and its standalone sequel Of Charms, Ghosts and Grie.