Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi is an American science fiction author whose novel Ship Breaker (2010) won the Michael L. Printz Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Ship Breaker is set in a future Gulf Coast where sea levels have risen and depicts a young boy who scraps old oil tankers for survival. Bacigalupi is best known for his adult novel The Windup Girl (2009), which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He has written several other YA novels including The Drowned Cities (2012) and The Water Knife (2015), and is widely considered one of the leading authors of climate fiction (cli-fi). He grew up in western Colorado and lives in the mountains near Paonia, Colorado. His work is characterised by its rigorously researched environmental and social scenarios and its dark yet humane perspective on the consequences of ecological collapse.