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Authors
A.C. Wise
A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling, Hooked, and Ballad of the Bone Road, along with various novellas, collections, and short stories. Her work has won the Sunburst Award, and been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, British Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, Ignyte, and Lambda Literary Awards. In addition to her fiction, she contributes regular review columns to Apex and Locus. More info at acwise.net.
A.G. Howard
A.G. Howard is the #1 New York Times & International Bestselling author of several young adult retellings and spinoff novels, including her gothic Alice in Wonderland Splintered Series, and RoseBlood, a Phantom of the Opera inspired adaptation.
When writing, A.G. is most at home weaving the melancholy, magical, and macabre into her settings and scenes. In her downtime, she enjoys rollerblading, gardening, and visiting 18th century graveyards or abandoned buildings to appease her muse’s darker side.
A.L. Goldfuss
A.L. Goldfuss’s work has been shortlisted for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and has appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Fantasy, and other venues. For more work and newsletter updates, visit algoldfuss.com.
A.M. Dellamonica
A.M. Dellamonica’s first novel, Indigo Springs, won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Their fourth won the 2016 Prix Aurora for Best Novel. They have published over forty short stories in Tor.com, and elsewhere. Alyx teaches writing at two universities and is writing a screenplay as the final hurdle as they pursue an MFA in creative writing at a third. Their sixth novel, Gamechanger, was released in September under the name L.X. Beckett and is a hopetopia, a story that imagines humanity surviving climate change and creating a post-carbon economy.
Ada Hoffmann
Ada Hoffmann (they/them) is the author of the upcoming sci-fi novel Ignore All Previous Instructions, as well as the Outside space opera trilogy, the collections Resurrections, Monsters in My Mind, and Million-Year Elegies, and dozens of speculative short stories and poems. Ada’s novel-length work is represented by Hannah Bowman. Ada was diagnosed with autism at the age of 13 and is known for including #ownvoices queer and autistic characters in their work. Their former review series, Autistic Book Party, was a source of in-depth analysis of autistic characters and themes in speculative fiction. Ada lives in eastern Ontario and teaches computer science, cognitive science, and critical AI literacy at a major Canadian university. Their research on the relationship between computers and creativity has been presented at conferences around the world. Ada is also a classically trained soprano. They share their home with a sweet-natured black cat named Ninja.
Adam-Troy Castro
Adam-Troy Castro made his first non-fiction sale to Spy magazine in 1987. His books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator Andrea Cort, and six middle-grade novels about the dimension-spanning adventures of young Gustav Gloom. Adam’s works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Seiun (Japan), and have been nominated for eight Nebulas, three Stokers, two Hugos, one World Fantasy Award, and, internationally, the Ignotus (Spain), the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), and the Kurd-Laßwitz Preis (Germany). The audio collection My Wife Hates Time Travel And Other Stories (Skyboat Media) features thirteen hours of his fiction, including the new stories “The Hour In Between” and “Big Stupe and the Buried Big Glowing Booger.” In 2022 he came out with two collections, his The Author’s Wife Vs. The Giant Robot and his thirtieth book, A Touch of Strange. Adam was an Author Guest of Honor at 2023’s World Fantasy Convention. Adam lives in Florida with a pair of chaotic paladin cats.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son. He’s the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series as well as standalone works Guns of the Dawn and Children of Time, and numerous short stories.
Adrienne Celt
Adrienne Celt is the author of two novels: The Daughters, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for fiction and was shortlisted for the 2016 Crawford Award, and Invitation to a Bonfire, which will be published by Bloomsbury in June 2018. Her work has appeared in the 2016 O. Henry Prize Stories, Strange Horizons, The Kenyon Review, Esquire, Zyzzyva, Ecotone, and many other places, and her collection of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary came out with DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press in 2016. She lives in Tucson, and publishes a webcomic (most) every Wednesday at loveamongthelampreys.com. Find her online at adriennecelt.com, or, against her better judgement, on Twitter.
Aidan Doyle
Aidan Doyle is an Australian writer and computer programmer. He has visited more than 80 countries and his experiences include teaching English in Japan, interviewing ninjas in Bolivia, and going ten-pin bowling in North Korea. His stories and articles have been published in Strange Horizons, Fireside, and Salon.com and he has been shortlisted for Australia’s Aurealis Award. Find him at aidandoyle.net and @aidan_doyle.
