Malka Older
Biography
Malka Older
Malka Older is a writer, aid worker and sociologist. She is the Executive Director of Global Voices, a community of writers, editors and translators providing community journalism from all over the world and advocating for indigenous and minority languages, media literacy, digital rights and online freedom of expression.
Her science-fiction political thriller, INFOMOCRACY, was named among the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, the Washington Post and Book Riot; with sequels, it was a finalist for a Hugo award. THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, a murder mystery set on Jupiter, was on four best of 2023 lists and was a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus and Ignyte awards for Best Novella. The sequel, THE IMPOSITION OF UNNECESSARY OBSTACLES, was named one of the best science-fiction books of 2024 by Esquire, and the third book in the series is the newly released THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES.
She is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches on predictive fictions. She is co-editor of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction about social justice movements, coming out in December 2025.
Malka Older