


Fonda's father introduced science-fiction to her and she was a science fiction and fantasy fan from a young age.įonda Lee read tons of books and her mother encouraged her interest. She grew up in Calgary and lived in Toronto and the San Francisco Bay Area before settling in Portland. She is particularly known for her novels Jade City, Zeroboxer, and Exo.įonda Lee was born on March 10, 1979, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has also written several short fiction books and is an author at Llewellyn Worldwide.įonda Lee is a Canadian-American writer who writes science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 Fonda published the second book from The Green Bone Saga, Jade War. Exo was followed by sequel Cross Fire (2018). In 2017 Lee became an author at Orbit Books and published the first book from the Exo series, Exo, and the first book from The Green Bone Saga, the debut novel for adults, Jade City. Since that time she is an author at Scholastic. She wrote a practice novel, then a fantasy novel that wasn't sold, and then Zeroboxer (2015), which became her debut. She worked as a freelance business consultant, which gave her enough flexibility in her schedule to pursue her new goal, which was to become a published author. She took a writing course online and started working on a novel and eventually quit her day job. Then she realized she didn’t like what she was doing in her day job, and she resolved to finally start taking writing seriously, decided to cut back on her day job and find a way to include writing in her life. But she soon reached a point when she wasn’t writing anymore because she was too busy and she had no time left for writing. She had a day job going for a long time and writing for fun in her free time.

Early in career, Fonda Lee became a management consultant, and then a corporate strategist at Nike.
