Malka Older

Writer and sociologist

Malka Older is a writer and sociologist. After working in international aid and disaster response for over a decade, she obtained her PhD in organizational sociology from Sciences Po.

She writes primarily on disaster response, temporality and geopolitics, and has published in American Behavioral Scientist, American Quarterly, Revue Interdisciplinaire de Travaux sur les Amériques, and numerous academic books. She is a faculty associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches humanitarian aid and predictive fiction, and her opinions can be found in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy and NBC THINK, among others.

Her sci-fi political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot and the Washington Post, while her latest book, The Mimicking of Known Successes, was a highly anticipated pick for Today.com, Buzzfeed, Polygon, Book Riot and Ms. Magazine.