She co-wrote non-fiction book How to Future (2020) with Scott Smith of Changeist.Īshby married her first husband shortly after moving to Canada they later divorced. She runs workshops on the impact of future technologies, and publishes non-fiction widely in that field. In addition to writing, Ashby works as a futurist, with clients including Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, and more. Campbell Award for Best New Writer on the strength of her debut novel, but recused herself due to an earlier professional story publication that made her ineligible. She was one of the writers on tie-in serial Orphan Black: The Next Chapter for Serial Box (2019). With husband David Nickle, she edited Aurora Award finalist Licence E xpired: The Unauthorized James Bond (2015). She has another standalone near-future novel forthcoming. Standalone novel Company Town was published in 2016 it won a Copper Cylinder Award and was a finalist for the Aurora Award, and a finalist in the 2017 CBC Books Canada Reads competition. The Machine Dynasties series continued with iD (2013), and third volume ReV is forthcoming in July. Her story ”Domestic Violence” (2018) was a Sunburst Award finalist.ĭebut novel vN appeared in 2012 and was a finalist for the Kitschies’ Golden Tentacle Award. She began publishing short fiction in 2007, and her first professional sale was ”The Chair” in Nature (2009). in Strategic Foresight and Innovation with a focus on the future of border security.

from York University in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on ”Japanese animation, cyborg theory, and fan cultures.” She then attended the Ontario College of Art and Design University, where she earned an M.Des. She graduated from Seattle University in 2005, and went on to get an M.A. Madeline Ashby was born Apin Panorama City CA and grew up in Washington State, outside Seattle, before relocating to Canada in her early twenties.

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