About Edward Willett
Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction books for both children and adults. He's also the host of the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers: Conversations with Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors about the Creative Process. He successfully kickstarted and edited a new anthology, Shapers of Worlds, featuring authors who were guests during the first year of the podcast.
Among his novels are Lost in Translation; Marseguro (which won the 2009 Aurora Award for best English-language science fiction or fantasy book by a Canadian author) and its sequel Terra Insegura (a finalist for the 2010 Aurora Award); Magebane (written as Lee Arthur Chane); the Masks of Aygrima fantasy trilogy, written as E. C. Blake; and the stand-alone science fiction novel The Cityborn. His latest book series, Worldshapers, began with Worldshaper ("a rollicking contemporary fantasy," Publishers Weekly said in a starred review), and continues with Master of the World and The Moonlit World. Willett is also the author of the Shards of Excalibur modern-day YA fantasy series, I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust, a collection of science fiction and fantasy poetry published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing, and Paths to the Stars, a collection of his short fiction, published by Shadowpaw Press.
His YA fantasy Spirit Singer won a Saskatchewan Book Award; he's been shortlisted many other times.
Besides being a writer, Willett is a professional actor and singer who has performed in dozens of plays, musicals, and operas in and around Saskatchewan, hosted local television programs, and emceed numerous public events.
He's married to a telecommunications engineer and has one daughter and a black Siberian cat named Shadowpaw.
