Meg Elison is a Hugo, Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Scientific American, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elison is a high school […]

Crystal Koo’s fiction has been published in multiple venues including The Apex Book of World SF 4, Abyss and Apex, Maximum Volume: Best New Filipino Fiction, and International Speculative Fiction. She was a winner of the Carlos Palanca award and the Hong Kong Top Story award. She was born in Manila, worked as a lecturer in Hong Kong, and […]

Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime.” Chad Stahelski of John Wick fame is set to direct the book as a feature film. He’s also written comics for […]

Lizz Huerta is a Mexic-Rican writer. Her work has appeared in A People’s Future of the United States, The Miami Rail, The Cut, Brevity Magazine, and other journals. Her debut novel, The Lost Dreamer, will be released March 2022 by FSG for Young Readers. She was born, raised, and currently lives on Kumeyaay land, colonizer name San Diego. […]

Barbadian author, editor and research consultant Karen Lord is known for her debut novel Redemption in Indigo, which won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award, the 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award, the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and the 2012 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut), and was longlisted […]

Shweta is an Indian-American writer of speculative fiction. In her professional past, she has been an Astronomy grad student, actuary, and data analyst. Shweta lives with her spouse, child, and ADHD. She spent a childhood immersed in Hindu/Indian-subcontinent mythology, and deals with adulting by writing in it. Shweta was part of Clarion West’s class of […]

Coral Moore has always been the kind of girl who makes up stories. Fortunately, she never grew out of that. She writes character driven fiction, and enjoys conversations about genetics and microbiology as much as those about vampires and werewolves. She has an MFA in Writing from Albertus Magnus College and is an alum of […]