

Wilde is the Director of the Genre Fiction MFA Concentration at Western Colorado University. The audio drama was a twelve episode series that followed the fictional story of two companies competing to bring artificial intelligence to Mars. Wilde is the writer and creator of the podcast called Machina produced by Realm. She attended Taos Toolbox in 2012 and served as an Endeavor Award judge in 2015, and a Norton Jury Member in 2016. She writes for the blog GeekMom and runs the blog and podcast Cooking the Books.

She has published a number of short stories and completed several novels.

Her first published novel grew from a short story she developed for the 2011 Viable Paradise writing workshop. Prior to publishing, Wilde worked as a sailing instructor, a jeweler's assistant, a teacher and professor, and a web and game developer. She then went on to earn a MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1996 and a master's degree in information architecture and interaction design from the University of Baltimore in 2001.

She attended the University of Virginia, earning a BA in English with honors in 1994. Wilde was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972. Her fiction explores themes of social class, disability, disruptive technology, and empowerment against a backdrop of engineering and artisan culture. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Nature, Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, and elsewhere. Wilde is the first person to win two Andre Norton Awards for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. Her debut middle grade novel, Riverland, won the 2019 Andre Norton Award, was named an NPR Best Book of 2019 and was a Lodestar Finalist. Her debut novel, Updraft, was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award, and won the 2016 Andre Norton Award and the 2016 Compton Crook Award. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statesįran Wilde is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and blogger. Fran Wilde at Worldcon in Helsinki, 2017.
