Born and raised in India, Rati Mehrotra now lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the science fantasy novels Markswoman (2018) and Mahimata (2019) published by Harper Voyager and the YA fantasy novel Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove (2022) published by Wednesday Books. Her short fiction has been […]

Kyle Muntz is the author of Scary People (Eraserhead Press, 2015) and Green Lights (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014). His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Fiction International, Mayday, and elsewhere in print and online. In 2016, he received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Notre Dame, where he was awarded the Spark’s Prize […]

G.V. Anderson is a British writer whose professional debut, “Das Steingeschöpf”, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 2017. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Interzone. She is currently working on her first novel and tweets regularly about it at @luna_luminarium.

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 […]