A longtime bibliophile, Lesly Betancourt-Gonzalez had the opportunity to work on translating stories during an internship focused on helping immigrant farmworkers. Born in Baja California, Mexico, she was raised by immigrant parents in Reno, Nevada. She went on to graduate from Cornell University in 2011 and to work for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) […]

Born in 1947 in Pasadena California, Octavia E. Butler began writing at age 10, using a Remington typewriter. After attending the Clarion Workshop, she started to sell short stories professionally and began writing novels. She published fourteen novels and numerous short stories, earning many honors including two Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, and a MacArthur […]

Samuel “Chip” Delany is an author, professor, and literary critic. Born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, he spent time living in San Francisco and London before returning to New York City, where he currently resides. He finished his first novel at 19 years old, and had published short fiction by age 20. […]

Steven Barnes is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning novelist and screenwriter who is the creator of the Lifewriting™ writing course, which he has taught nationwide. He recently won an NAACP Image Award as co-author of the Tennyson Hardwick mystery series with his wife, Tananarive Due, and actor Blair Underwood. He has written over 20 […]

Jennifer Marie Brissett is an author who once owned a indie bookstore. She’s been an artist, an engineer, and sometimes a poet. Her stories can be found in FIYAH Magazine, Motherboard VICE, Uncanny Magazine, The Future Fire, and other publications. Her debut novel Elysium (Aqueduct Press) received the Philip K. Dick Special Citation Award and […]

Nin Harris is a Malaysian author, poet, and Gothic scholar. Nin writes Gothic fiction, cyberpunk, space opera, planetary romances and various other forms of hyphenated weird fiction. Nin’s poetry is published in Jabberwocky 3, Goblin Fruit, and Strange Horizons. Nin’s fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Alphabet of Embers, Lackington’s, Giganotosaurus, and in […]

Gabriela Santiago grew up in Illinois, Montana, Florida, and Yokosuka, Japan; these days she lives in St. Paul with her partner, their dog, and a semi-alarming number of nightshades. She is a graduate of the Clarion writing workshop and a member of SFWA (as well as a proud member of Team Tiny Bonesaw). Her fiction […]

Terence Taylor (terencetaylor.com) is an award-winning children’s television writer whose work has appeared on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among many others. As an author of fiction, his first published short story, “Plaything,” appeared in Dark Dreams, the first horror/suspense anthology of African-American authors. He was one of a handful of authors to be included in the next two volumes, with The Share in Voices from the […]

Dayo Ntwari, a Rwandan Nigerian writer, has been a fan of science fiction and fantasy since childhood. He enjoys writing stories inspired by African legends and myths. He believes Africa’s diverse histories, religions, spirituality and mythologies can serve as a never-ending treasure trove of inspiration for African science fiction and fantasy. His short stories include […]

Nick Tchan (writing as Nick T. Chan) is a writer from Sydney, Australia. He’s sold stories to Writers of the Future, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Galaxy’s Edge. Because he does not own a cat, he has long doubted his legitimacy as a speculative fiction writer.