Emily St. John Mandel is the author of four novels, most recently Station Eleven , which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award , and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 31 languages. Mandel is a staff writer for The Millions , and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. Station Eleven is the focus of