Author Talk: Fonda Lee in Conversation with Luke Elliott

Join us for an author talk celebrating The Last Contract of Isako, the newest genre-bending adventure from award-winning author Fonda Lee, an award-winning and New York Times bestselling fantasy and science fiction author.

Her modern epic, the Green Bone Saga, has been translated into fifteen languages and was named one ofTime magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. She is also the author of the novella Untethered Sky and several young adult novels: Zeroboxer, the Exo duology, and, cowritten with Shannon Lee, the Breathmarked duology. Fonda is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award, as well as a six-time winner of the Aurora Award and a finalist for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. A former corporate strategist and black belt martial artist, she hails from Canada and the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in New England.

Fonda will be joined in conversation by Luke Elliott of the From Ink to Film podcast for a discussion of storytelling and craft.

August 11, 2026
6:30 PM
Parallel Worlds Bookshop
2639 NE Alberta St., Portland, OR 97211