RSA Garcia

R.S.A. decided to be an author at 10 years old, when she discovered Lousia May Alcott was published at 8, and has not stopped writing since. She is now the first person from Trinidad and Tobago to have won the prestigious Nebula and Sturgeon Awards for science fiction. She is also the winner of the Machine Intelligence Foundation for Rights and Ethics’ 2023 Media Award, and a Locus, Ignyte and Eugie Foster Award finalist.

Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and won the IPPY Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook (2015).

She has published short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, The Sunday Morning Transport, and Internazionale Magazine. Her stories have been long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards, translated into several languages, and included in a number of anthologies, including the critically acclaimed The Best of World SF, The Best Science Fiction of the Year, The Year’s Best Fantasy, and The Apex Book of World SF. Her debut sci-fantasy duology is out now from Harper Voyager and the first book, The Nightward has been long-listed for the 2025 BSFAs and Locus Awards.