Sarena Straus is the author of the multi-award-winning science fiction trilogy, ReInception. ReInception has won more than ten awards including an IBPA Ben Franklin for Best Audiobook, Fiction across all genres, and first place Pencraft and CIBA Cygnus Awards for Science Fiction. ReInception and DeInception were released to wide acclaim. The final book in the trilogy, MassInception is due out fall of 2025. Sarena is also the author of the forthcoming YA alien-invasion duology, Assimilation. This spring, her sci-horror short story will be featured in the anthology, All Roads Lead to Hell. Her true-crime memoir, Bronx DA, sold as a TV pilot to CBS/Paramount.
A lawyer by training, Sarena has been an adjunct professor in New York and Zambia and had a multi-year career as a talking head, appearing on more than 100 TV and radio shows. She has been a panelist and podcast guest sci-fi expert at the Nebula Conference, Readercon, Arisia, Boskone, Norwescon, HeliosphereNY, Live From The Bunker, The Author’s Corner, and many, many more. You can learn more about Sarena on her website, sarenastraus.com or by following her Substack substack.com/@sarenastraus.
