M. Darusha Wehm

M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as over a dozen novels including the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots. Darusha is a member of the Many Worlds writing collective and their short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Strange Horizons, Terraform and Nature. Their poetry has been a finalist for the Rhysling Award. Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand after several years sailing the Pacific. Out in 2024 is Shores of a New Horizon: A Terraforming Mars novel, and in 2025 a Many Worlds novel, written with the collective as Darkly Lem, from Blackstone Publishing.