Rivers Solomon was born in 1989 and grew up in California, Indiana, Texas, and New York. They attended Stanford University, graduating with a degree in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and earned a MFA at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts was a finalist for Gaylactic Spectrum and Lambda Awards, and was selected for the James Tiptree,