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 […]

Giovanni De Feo, a Clarion 2016 graduate, is a fabulist writer in the tradition of Italo Calvino. His Italian novels have been described as “a baroque cross between Terry Gilliam and Miyazaki.” He has published short stories in English for Conjunctions and Nightmare, among other venues. An IB literature teacher, he’s also a storyteller and a […]

Tony Ballantyne is the author of the acclaimed Penrose and Recursion series of novels as well as many short stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies around the world. He has been nominated for the BSFA and Philip K Dick awards. Dream Paris, a follow up to the critically acclaimed Dream London, was published […]