“Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.”

American young adult science fiction and fantasy author

Marie Lu is an American young adult science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for the Legend series and for several other novels aimed at younger readers. Her work includes the dystopian, militarized world of Legend, along with the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series. Her writing is associated with speculative fiction, especially stories set in imagined futures and focused on conflict, power, and survival.