Lois McMaster Bujold is a renowned American speculative fiction writer, born on November 2, 1949. She is acclaimed for winning the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Novel four times, an achievement that equals the record held by Robert A. Heinlein, excluding his Retro Hugos. Among her celebrated works, her novella The Mountains of Mourning was awarded both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

In the realm of fantasy, The Curse of Chalion earned her the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and a nomination for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. She also received her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award for Paladin of Souls. Further recognition came in 2011 with the Skylark Award, and she won the Hugo Awards for Best Series twice, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga and in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods.

In 2019, she achieved the honor of being named the 36th SFWA Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Her extensive body of work includes three main series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the World of the Five Gods, and the Sharing Knife series.