K.E. Lanning was born in Houston, Texas and grew up a stone’s throw from NASA’s space program in the small town of Friendswood, TX, laced with white oyster shell roads and open fields dotted with huge live oaks. Lanning is a writer of both commercial literary fiction and speculative fiction, allowing the author to explore society, humanity, and our future.

Her climate fiction trilogy titled, The Melt Trilogy: A Spider Sat Beside Her, The Sting of the Bee and Listen to the Birds, has garnered excellent Kirkus Reviews, with the last novel the recipient of Best New Novels of 2019 from Kirkus Reviews. Lanning has written a screenplay for a pilot of a limited series for the first novel in the trilogy, A Spider Sat Beside Her.

In addition, she’s published a series of book reviews and author interviews, including authors Claire Vaye Watkins, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hugh Howey, Margaret Atwood, Emily St. John Mandel, Andy Weir, and Cixin Liu.

Lanning is a member of the Virginia Screenwriters Forum and James River Writers.