Will McIntosh is a Hugo award winner and Nebula finalist whose latest novel, Defenders , has been optioned by Warner Brothers for a feature film. His previous novel, Love Minus Eighty , was named the best science fiction book of 2013 by the American Library Association, and was on both Io9.com and NPR.org's lists of the best SF novels of 2013. His debut novel, Soft Apocalypse , was a finalist for a Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Compton Crook Award. Along with four novels, he has published fifty short stories in venues such as Asimov's , Lightspeed , and Science Fiction and Fantasy: Best of the Year . Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full-time.

He lives in Williamsburg with his wife and their five year-old twins. You can follow him on Twitter @willmcintoshSF, or on his website, www.willmcintosh.net.