Helene Wecker is the author of
The Golem and the Jinni
--which was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award--and its sequel, book two of the trilogy,
The Hidden Palace.
A Midwest native, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as
Joyland
and
Catamaran
, as well as the fantasy anthology
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories
. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.
