Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Lavanya Lakshminarayan is a science fiction writer and game designer. She's the first Indian woman to be nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and is the multi-award winning author of The Ten Percent Thief and Interstellar MegaChef. Her work has been translated into multiple languages around the world, and her short fiction has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines.
Lavanya has also worked in the gaming industry for over a decade. She led game design at Zynga Inc. on several games, including Mafia Wars, FarmVille and FarmVille 2, and most recently tinkered with word games at PlaySimple Games. She's a gamer across platforms, a classically-trained pianist, and a compulsive traveller.