Sage Walker

{{Short description|American science-fiction writer}}

Sage Walker is an American science-fiction writer based in New Mexico. She contributed to the Wild Cards series and won the Locus Award in 1997 for her debut novel, Whiteout.{{cite web |url=http://www.alamo-sf.org/lonestarcon2/partlist.html#Sage_Walker |publisher=LoneStarCon 2 |title=Sage Walker bio |year=1997}}

She was born in Oklahoma. She earned a B.S. in Zoology and then a M.D. She contributed to establishing the first full-time emergency physician coverage in hospitals in Taos, Los Alamos, and Santa Fe.{{Cite web |last=Macmillan Publishers |title=Sage Walker {{!}} Authors {{!}} Macmillan |url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/sagewalker |access-date=August 18, 2023 |website=Macmillan Publishers}}

She was one of several science fiction authors who attended a 2009 United States Department of Homeland Security conference on science and technology aimed at preventing future terrorist attacks.{{webarchive |title=Sci-fi writers join war on terror |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602123958/https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-05-29-deviant-thinkers-security_N.htm}}