Yoon Ha Lee (he/him) is the New York Times best-selling author of Dragon Pearl, a companion to this book and winner of the Locus Award and the Mythopoeic Award. Tiger Honor is the second book in the Thousand Worlds trilogy. He has also published several books for adults, including a stand-alone fantasy entitled Phoenix Extravagant and the Machineries of Empire space opera trilogy: Ninefox Gambit, Raven Strategem, and Revenant Gun. Yoon draws inspiration from a variety of sources, such as Korean history and mythology, fairy tales, higher mathematics, classic moral dilemmas, and genre fiction. His website can be found at YoonHaLee.com.