[2] She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D.[3] Her most famous work is The Alchemy of Stone, a steampunk novel that examines sexism and class bigotry.
[4] Sedia's other novels include The Secret History of Moscow, According to Crow, Heart of Iron, and The House of Discarded Dreams.
[6] In addition to writing, she teaches ecology and evolution courses as a professor at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey.
She currently teaches plant ecology and botany at Stockton University and lives in New Jersey with her husband Christopher Sedia and their cats.
[3] In her spare time, she blogs about fashion, food, cats, books, television, and feminism.
[3] She later moved to Boston and worked at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Science as a research assistant.
[11] In this story set in Sium, Josiah lives in a world where even though the war is over it is still not great times.
[12] The Secret History of Moscow is a fantasy novel set in the underworld of capitalist Russia.
Fyodor then takes them to a magical doorway to underground Moscow where creatures from Old Russian folklore live.
She coauthored an influential paper on the differential effects of lichens, mosses, and grasses on respiration and nitrogen mineralization,[19] how it promotes an alternate plant community,[20] and decomposition of litter in the New Jersey Pinelands.