Alix E. Harrow

 
Alix E. Harrow (born November 9, 1989) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award, and in 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her story "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies". She has published under the name Alix Heintzman. 
Life and career.
Alix E. Harrow was born in 1989 in the United States and grew up in Kentucky. She enrolled at Berea College at age sixteen, where she completed a bachelor's degree in history in three years. She then went on to earn a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. Harrow lives in Kentucky with her husband, Nick Stiner, and two children. 
Her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, was critically received and nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award for best novel. Harrow has also written short fiction for "Shimmer", "Strange Horizons", Tor.com, and Apex. Before working as a full-time writer, Harrow was an academic historian who taught as an adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University.