Brenda Peynado’s stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, a Dana Award, a Fulbright Grant to the Dominican Republic, and other prizes. Her work appears in magazines such as Tor.com, The Georgia Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review Online, and The Threepenny Review. She’s currently […]

Deji Bryce Olukotun is the author of two novels and his fiction has appeared in five different book collections. His novel After the Flare won the 2018 Philip K. Dick special citation award, and his first novel Nigerians in Space, a thriller about brain drain from Africa, was published by Unnamed Press in 2014. He […]

Adanze Asante is an African Diasporic writer, a black belt, and an Olympic weightlifter, creating weird stories in the Bedford Stuyvesant village on planet Brooklyn. If she’s not writing, she’s reading. If she’s not reading, she’s cooking gourmet vegan meals. She is a Clarion West graduate and is currently writing on a speculative-fiction novel. Her […]

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls. He holds degrees from Yale, the Tisch School of the Arts, Sciences Po, and Columbia Law School. His fiction […]

T.L. Huchu’s work has appeared in Interzone, AfroSF, The Apex Book of World SF 5, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, The Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016, and elsewhere. He is the winner of a Nommo Award for African SFF, and has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize and the Grand prix de […]

Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, of which the most recent novel, Ruin of Angels, was released in September 2017. Max’s interactive mobile game, Choice of the Deathless, was nominated for the XYZZY Award, and his critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies […]

Eli Brown lives with his family in a California oak forest where the squirrels hide acorns in his garden. His novel, Cinnamon and Gunpowder, about a cook kidnapped  by a female pirate, was a NPR Book Review Staff Pick and a finalist for the California Book Award. A Yaddo fellow and featured reader at Litquake, Eli […]

Matthew Corradi lives in Prescott, Arizona where he works as the Chief Engineer for Arizona’s only locally-owned, independent TV station, KAZT. He is a very part time writer, having a small handful of short stories published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction over the years. Some day he might finish writing his novel, […]