Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a queer Polish-Canadian writer of stories, including fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. She won the Grand Prize in the 2019 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards for her short story, “A Life Measured in Moons.” Her work has been published in LeVar Burton Reads, Analog, Writer’s Digest, Uncharted Magazine, and others. Ola is an alumna of Odyssey Writing Workshop and The New School’s creative writing MFA in fiction & creative non-fiction. She is also the founder and publisher of the IGNYTE-winning and Hugo-nominated khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. She is represented by Eric Showers of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

In her previous life, Ola earned a Ph.D. in Computational Biology at Columbia University, where she also completed a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and English Literature. She currently lives in New York City and is perpetually in need of more bookshelves.