Leslie What collects and sells eclectic vintage jewelry and is a Nebula Award-winning writer and finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Ms. What has edited fiction for the journal Phantom Drift: New Fabulism and nonfiction for Winter Tales: Women and the Art of Aging. Her writing has been published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Parabola, Interfictions, […]

Max Wynne is a location-independent writer primarily based west of Utah. After receiving a window-dressing degree in neuroscience, they spent a few years wandering from state to state, sleeping in questionable spaces, and working a menagerie of menial jobs as a way of trying to wrap their head around their country’s economic and social realities. […]

Jonathan L. Howard is the author of the Johannes Cabal, Carter & Lovecraft, Goon Squad, and Russalka Chronicles series, and a BAFTA-nominated game designer and writer. His ninth novel After the End of the World will be released in November 2017. He is currently working on a new novel and an adventure game for Binary Space. He […]

Kathleen Kayembe is the Octavia E. Butler Scholar from Clarion’s class of 2016, with stories in Lightspeed, Nightmare, and several Best of the Year anthologies; an essay in the Hugo-nominated anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler; and previous queer romance publications with Less Than Three Press under the name Kaseka Nvita. You can find […]

Cadwell Turnbull is the award-winning author of The Lesson, No Gods, No Monsters, and We Are the Crisis. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and several anthologies. His novel The Lesson was the winner of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category. No Gods, No […]

Kodiak Julian is a graduate of Reed College and of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Together with Jamaica Zoglman, she cohosts the weekly podcast, Spirit of the Endeavor, which explores the pursuit of beauty, mystery, and the sublime in everyday life. She lives with her husband and son in Yakima, Washington, where she teaches truly magnificent […]

Gord Sellar is a Canadian writer living with his wife, son, and an army of plastic dinosaurs in a small town in South Korea. His work has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies since 2007, and has been translated to Korean, Italian, Czech, and Chinese, as well as appearing in a number […]