Paolo Bacigalupi's writing focuses on environmental and social themes including GM foods, ecosystem collapse, drought, global warming, poverty, and industrial pollution. He is the author of the forthcoming novel The Windup Girl (Night Shade Books, Sept. 2009) and the young adult novel Ship Breaker (Little, Brown, forthcoming Summer 2010). His novelette "The Gambler" (Fast Forward 2, ed. Lou Anders) is a current Hugo Award finalist. His short story collection Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2008) is a current Locus Award finalist for best collection, and was named a Best Book of 2008 by Publishers Weekly. The title novelette is also Locus Award finalist. Other stories in the collection include Hugo and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist, "Yellow Card Man," Hugo finalist and Sturgeon Award winner "The Calorie Man," Hugo and Nebula finalist "The People of Sand and Slag," and Sturgeon finalist "The Fluted Girl." His website is at windupstories.com.