NAOMI NOVIK is the acclaimed NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling author of the Nebula Award-winning novel UPROOTED, SPINNING SILVER, and the nine-volume Temeraire series, as well as a founder of the Archive of Our Own. Her recent books, A DEADLY EDUCATION and THE LAST GRADUATE, are the first and second books of the Scholomance trilogy. The third and final book in the trilogy, THE GOLDEN ENCLAVES, will be available September 2022.

KATHERINE ARDEN is the bestselling author of The Winternight Trilogy, which began with THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE.  She is also the author of two middle grade ghost stories, SMALL SPACES and DEAD VOICES. Born in Austin, Texas, she has studied Russian in Moscow, taught at a school in the French Alps, and worked on a farm in Hawaii. She currently lives in Vermont.

Naomi Novik discussing THE GOLDEN ENCLAVES, with Katherine Arden