“Writing about a robot girlfriend freed me to explore desire, respect, and longing in ways that felt very new and strange to me.”

SIERRA GREER grew up in Minnesota before attending Williams College and Johns Hopkins University. Her novel, Annie Bot, is the winner of the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom. A former high school English teacher, she writes about the future from her home in rural Connecticut.

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