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Lia Belt

Lia Belt was born in 1969 and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Originally a translator of mostly industry manuals from English and German into the Dutch language, a little over ten years ago she started translating fiction for several publishers in the Netherlands. She translates fantasy from authors such as Robert Jordan, Stan Nicholls, David […]

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K.M. Szpara

K.M. Szpara lives in Baltimore, MD, with a black cat and miniature poodle. He has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, which he totally uses at his day job as a legal secretary. On nights and weekends, he advances his queer agenda at the local LGBT Community Center and writes speculative fiction […]

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Gabrielle Friesen

Gabrielle Friesen’s favorite monsters are Scylla and Charybdis, with the alien from Alien as a close runner-up. Her work has been featured in Hello Horror, the Devilfish Review, Theme of Absence, and The First Line, as well as in 18thwall’s anthology Those Who Live Long Forgotten. She definitely does not believe in Bigfoot, but will […]

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Stephen Cox

Books expanded Stephen Cox’s mind as a child—myths history, fantasy, SF. Good stories came in many forms, but he remembers most those which challenged the world of now. Ged was red-brown and won without killing; Jerry Cornelius was a jerk, but a pansexual one. Stories could be about relationships too. Now he’s dug in for […]

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Shannon Peavey

Shannon Peavey is a native of Seattle, Washington. When not writing, she works as a horse trainer and battles rain, mud, and horse-eating plastic bags on a near-daily basis. A graduate of the Clarion West writer’s workshop, her fiction has also appeared in Apex, Writers of the Future, and The Masters Review. Find her online at shannonpeavey.com, […]

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JY Yang

JY Yang is a queer, non-binary Singaporean author. They are the author of the Tensorate series of novellas from Tor.com Publishing (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Descent of Monsters, and the upcoming The Ascent of Heaven), and they have over two dozen works of short fiction published in places […]

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Gabby Reed

Gabby Reed is a queer, bisexual, Filipin@-American writer who hails variously from Cavite, Philadelphia, Seattle, Milwaukee, and Madison, Wisconsin. Her fiction has appeared in Parenthesis from Comma Press, her poetry is Rhysling-nominated, and she’s scripted a story in the upcoming Beyond anthology of queer science fiction and fantasy comics. Gabby’s focus are the things that […]

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Claudine Griggs

Claudine Griggs is the Writing Center Director at Rhode Island College, and her publications include three nonfiction books about transsexuals along with a couple dozen articles on writing, teaching, and other topics.  She has also recently begun writing fiction, publishing three stories, and hopes to draft more science fiction, her first-love genre as a teenager. […]

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Chaz Brenchley

Chaz Brenchley has been making a living as a writer since the age of eighteen. He is the author of nine thrillers, most recently Shelter; two fantasy series, The Books of Outremer and Selling Water by the River; and two ghost stories, House of Doors and House of Bells. As Daniel Fox, he has published […]

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Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz grew up in a place conducive to dreaming. Her stories are sometimes letters to her former self, but more often they are love letters to those who are of the beloved country. A recipient of the Octavia Butler scholarship, Rochita attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in 2009. A terribly chaotic record keeper, she […]

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