Emily St. John Mandel is the author of seven novels, including Station Eleven, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was included in the New York Times Best 100 Books of the 21st Century list; The Glass Hotel, which was selected by Barack Obama as one of his favourite books of 2020 and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize; and Sea of Tranquility, which was also selected by Obama for his 2022 list. Her work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and adapted for television. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles.