Zoe Hana Mikuta

Zoe Hana Mikuta is an American novelist working in young-adult science fiction. Her debut, Gearbreakers, published in 2021 by Feiwel & Friends, is set in a dystopia where rebel pilots battle towering war machines called Windups, and its story continues in the sequel Godslayers. Mikuta writes fast-paced, high-concept speculative fiction aimed at teen and young-adult readers, a register she has carried into more recent books such as Off with Their Heads and The Coven Tendency. Her work sits within a wave of contemporary young-adult science fiction built around large-scale mecha combat and morally compromised rebel protagonists.