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A. Maus

A. Maus is a typically unassuming mammal who wrangles suits by day and squeaks words by night. Notable achievements include a few regional medals, minor infamy and gainful employment. You can find A. Maus on Twitter at @AMausWrites.

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Beesan Odeh

Beesan Odeh lives in Ohio and is nearing her final year of the Northeastern Ohio MFA program at Youngstown State University. You can see her work in Lightspeed, Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology, and Jenny Magazine. You can also find her on Twitter: @Beesan_O.

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Bryan Camp

Bryan Camp is a graduate of the University of New Orleans MFA program and the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop. He is a fan of the Saints, mythology, and the Oxford comma. When he’s not translating ancient languages or restoring antique motorcycles, he spends his time making up lies about himself in author bios. His first […]

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Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer whose fiction has been nominated for the Locus and British Fantasy Awards. Their short stories can be found in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Uncanny Magazine, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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Jonathan Moore

Jonathan Moore is a Bram Stoker Award nominated author of five novels. His third novel, The Poison Artist, was a selection of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. His novels have been translated into seven languages. Before graduating from law school in New Orleans, he lived in Taiwan for three years, guided whitewater raft trips […]

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Xia Jia

Xia Jia (a.k.a Wang Yao) is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong University. She has been publishing speculative fiction since college. Seven of her stories have won the Galaxy Award, China’s most prestigious science fiction award. So far she has published a fantasy novel Odyssey of China Fantasy: On the Road (2010), as […]

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Malinda Lo

Malinda Lo is the New York Times bestselling author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, winner of the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as Michael L. Printz and Walter Dean Myers honors. Her debut novel Ash, a Sapphic retelling of Cinderella, was a […]

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny (1937 – 1995) was the legendary author of such books as The Chronicles of Amber, Lord of Light, and This Immortal, as well as many other classic novels and nearly one hundred fifty short stories—including classics such as “Damnation Alley,” “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth,” and “A Rose […]

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José Pablo Iriarte

José Pablo Iriarte is a Cuban-American writer, high school math teacher, and parent of two. Their fiction has been finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus and Sturgeon Awards, longlisted for the Otherwise Award, and reprinted in various Year’s Best compilations. Their debut novel, Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed was published in 2024 by Knopf […]

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Joanna Ruocco

Joanna Ruocco is the author of several books, including Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project), The Week (The Elephants of British Columbia), and Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych (FC2). She also works pseudonymously as Alessandra Shahbaz (Ghazal in the Moonlight, Midnight Flame), Toni Jones (No Secrets in Spandex), and Joanna Lowell (Dark Season). […]

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