Naomi Kritzer writes award-winning novels and short stories. She may be best known for her story “Cat Pictures Please” which won the 2016 Hugo and Locus Awards (and was nominated for the Nebula and the WSFA Small Press Award). It grew into the novel Catfishing on CatNet which won the mystery Edgar Award and the YA Lodestar award (and was nominated for the Dragon, Andre Norton, and Locus awards). Other award winning fiction includes the Locus award for “Little Free Library” (Hugo nominated), the WSFA Small Press award in 2023 for “The Dragon Project”, the Hugo for “Better Living Through Algorithms” (Nebula and WSFA Small Press Award nominated), and the Hugo and Nebula for “The Year Without Sunshine” (nominated for the Eugie, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon awards). She has been nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award in 2024, 2023, 2016, and 2014 and won in 2023.
Her novels include: Fires of the Faithful (2002), Turning the Storm (2003), the Dead Rivers trilogy (2004-06), Catfishing on CatNet (2019), Chaos on Catnet (2021), and Liberty’s Daughter (2023).
She graduated from Carleton College in 1995.