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Howard Waldrop

Howard Waldrop, American iconoclast, was born in Mississippi and now lives in Austin, Texas. His first sale to a professional magazine was the story “Lunchbox” which appeared in the May 1972 Analog. His unique fiction has received many nominations for the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, and in 1980 “The Ugly Chickens” won both […]

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Emma Bull

Emma Bull is the author of Territory, a historical fantasy set in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 (Tor Books). Other works include War for the Oaks, Bone Dance, and with Steven Brust, Freedom and Necessity. She’s a contributor to the Bordertown fantasy series, and is a writer and editor on Shadow Unit, a contemporary SF-suspense webfiction […]

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Mar Romasco-Moore

Mar Romasco-Moore is the author of Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her first novel, Some Kind of Animal, is forthcoming in 2020. She currently lives in Columbus, OH, and teaches writing at Columbus College of Art and Design. Find out more at marromascomoore.com.

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Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of poems and very short fiction written to the taste of 28 different kinds of honey. Her poetry has won the Rhysling award three times and the Richard Jefferies Prize once, and her story “The Truth About Owls” is presently a Locus Award finalist. Her […]

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Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy is the author of The Adventures of Mary Darling, a historic fantasy with a feminist twist, coming out in May 2025 from Tachyon Publications. Pat’s past works include The Falling Woman (winner of the Nebula Award for novel), Rachel in Love (winner of the Nebula Award for Novella), Points of Departure (short story […]

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Rajan Khanna

Rajan Khanna is an author, reviewer, podcaster, musician, and narrator. His three novels, Falling Sky, Rising Tide, and Raining Fire take place in a post-apocalyptic world of airships and floating cities. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Analog Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and multiple anthologies. His articles and reviews have appeared […]

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C. J. Cherryh

C. J. Cherryh, three-time Hugo Award winner, is one of today’s best-selling and most critically acclaimed writers of science fiction and fantasy. The author of more than fifty novels, including the popular Foreigner series, she makes her home in Spokane, Washington.  

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Samantha Murray

Samantha Murray’s fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Escape Pod, among other places. Samantha is a two-time Aurealis Award winner, and her work has been translated into Chinese and Vietnamese. You can find her on Twitter […]

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N.K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in the genre’s history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, all for her Broken Earth trilogy. Her most recent novel is The City We Became. Essays and links to her work can be found at nkjemisin.com.

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Kim Winternheimer

Kim Winternheimer’s work has appeared through Tin House, Gigantic Magazine, theNewerYork, The Oregonian, The Rumpus, and was the winner of Flavorwire’s Short Fiction Contest. She is the founding editor of The Masters Review and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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