Ann Leckie has published short stories in Subterranean Magazine and Strange Horizons, and has work forthcoming in Escape Pod, Surreal Botany, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Her story "Hesperia and Glory" was reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton.

Ann has worked as a waitress, a receptionist, a rodman on a land-surveying crew, and a recording engineer. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, children, and cats.