Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press), named on the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Longlist and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review, as well as Shotgun Lullabies. Thomas is also the editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies (Hachette), Associate Editor of OBSIDIAN: […]

Sarah Micklem is the author of two novels, Firethorn (Scribner, 2004) and Wildfire (Scribner, 2009). Micklem set out to write about war from a woman’s point of view—not that of a woman warrior, but a camp follower, as low on the social hierarchy as a person could get. Along the way she found herself writing […]

Micah Dean Hicks is the author of the upcoming story collection Vulture Gold, the novel Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones, and the story collection Electricity and Other Dreams. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and has been awarded the Calvino Prize. His writing has appeared in […]

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, […]

Bestselling author Jane Lindskold was born in Washington, D.C., which set her up for a lifetime of being told she couldn’t be from the United States, because she wasn’t from a state. An outsider perspective tends to permeate her writing, which may be why she is drawn to SF/F. Lindskold has published over twenty-five novels, […]

Born in Iowa, Kate Elliott grew up in rural Oregon, where she learned early to clean out stalls and pitchfork manure, thus preparing her for adult life. She’s written epic fantasy (Crown of Stars, the Crossroads trilogy, Black Wolves), space opera Unconquerable Sun (gender-bent Alexander the Great in space), young adult fantasy (the Court of […]

James Beamon has an unbelievable past, mostly because he uses his spare time writing down fabrications to sell to others. That said, he’s been in the Air Force, to Iraq and Afghanistan, on the Nebula Recommended Reading List and in trouble more times than he cares to honestly admit. But he doesn’t even try to […]

Cameron Van Sant is a pansexual transgender writer of speculative fiction. His short stories can be found in Capricious Magazine and the Queerly Loving Volume Two anthology and he has written non-fiction for You&Me Magazine. He lives in Sacramento, California with his partner. You can find him on Twitter at @cameronvansant.

Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in more than 50 publications, including Lightspeed, Nightmare, Pleiades, khōréō, The Florida Review Online, Reckoning, and the anthologies Best Microfiction 2021 & 2022, Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, and Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses from […]

Suzanne Palmer is a writer, artist, and Linux system administrator who lives in western Massachusetts. She has won both the Asimov’s and AnLab/Analog Reader Awards for her short fiction. Her first novel is forthcoming from DAW in 2019.