Michael Damian Thomas
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Michael Damian Thomas is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Locus Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. In these roles, Michael has won nine Hugo Awards, a British Fantasy Award, a World Fantasy Award, and a Parsec Award. Michael was a Hugo Award finalist as the former Managing Editor of Apex Magazine (2012-2013), co-edited the Hugo Award finalist essay anthology Queers Dig Time Lords (Mad Norwegian Press, 2013) with Sigrid Ellis, co-edited the anthology Glitter & Mayhem (Apex Publications, 2013) with John Klima and Lynne M. Thomas, and co-edited the Locus Award finalist anthology The Best of Uncanny (Subterranean Press, 2019) with Lynne M. Thomas.
Michael was additionally a contributor to the SF Squeecast podcast (with Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente), a contributor to the Down and Safe- Blake’s 7 podcast (with Amal El-Mohtar, Scott Lynch, and L.M. Myles), and is currently the Content Editor of the It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton podcast.
Michael was formerly the full-time caregiver of his late daughter, Caitlin. Caitlin had a rare congenital disorder called Aicardi syndrome. Michael currently lives in Urbana, Illinois.
Monte Lin
Managing Editor
While being rained on in Oregon, Monte Lin edits, writes, and plays tabletop roleplaying games. He has stories in Cossmass Infinities, Cast of Wonders, Translunar Travelers Lounge, Flame Tree Press, and others, and Ignyte-nominated nonfiction at Strange Horizons. He is an alum of the Clarion West (2019) and Tin House (YA 2022) workshops. He can be found tweeting Doctor Who news, Asian American diaspora discourse, and his board game losses on Bluesky @montelin.bsky.social.
Betsy Aoki
Poetry Editor
Betsy Aoki is a poet, game producer and graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. A Rhysling Award nominee, she won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. Her debut poetry collection, Breakpoint, was a National Poetry Series Finalist and winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. Aoki’s speculative fiction and poetry have appeared in: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Translunar Travelers Lounge, The Deadlands, 580 Split, Fantasy Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and anthologized in Climbing Lightly Through Forests (a Ursula K. Le Guin tribute poetry anthology). Learn more at betsyaoki.com .
Erika Ensign
Podcast Producer
Erika is podcast-happy. In addition to co-producing Uncanny’s monthly podcast (and creating the Uncanny Patreon video), she has two Doctor Who podcasts: She’s technical producer and cohost of the Hugo-nominated Verity!, and she’s half of the Lazy Doctor Who podcast. She cohosts and shares moderation duties on The Audio Guide to Babylon 5. She’s a frequent panelist on The Incomparable. She launched and produced the first 17 months of Hugo Award-nominated Apex Magazine’s short fiction podcast. As if that’s not enough, she plays Dungeons and Dragons online on Total Party Kill (available in both video and audio formats).
You can find her online tweeting about all kinds of things as @HollyGoDarkly and blogging about Doctor Who, knitting, and other random geeky (and non-geeky) pursuits. Her degree in communications, which concentrated on editing and production, is finally serving her in the real world. Podcasts are in the real world, right? Right?
Steven Schapansky
Podcast Producer
Steven is one of the co-hosts and producers of the long running and popular Doctor Who podcast Radio Free Skaro. He also hosts and produces another podcast, Doctor Who: The Memory Cheats. He’s also Canadian, and thus he apologizes for talking so much about himself right now.
Matt Peters
Podcast Reader
Matt Peters is a passionate Chicago-based voice talent. Having amassed hundreds of hours behind the mic through podcasting, Matt trained with Acting Studio Chicago to improve his skill set. Since then, he’s lent his voice to hosting events, ad campaigns, and audiobook narration. Matt is now a proud member of the Uncanny Magazine family and is excited to share some of our favorite stories with you.
Caroline M. Yoachim
Interviewer
Caroline M. Yoachim is a two-time Hugo and five-time Nebula Award finalist. Her short stories have been translated into several languages and reprinted in multiple best-of anthologies, including three times in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Yoachim’s short story collection Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories and the print chapbook of her novelette The Archronology of Love are available from Fairwood Press. For more, check out her website at carolineyoachim.com.
Tania Chen
Assistant Editor
Submissions Editors:
Dolores Peters, Heather Leigh, Jay Wolf, Liam Meilleur, Matt Peters, Piper Hale, Tazmania Hayward, Rowan MacBean, Genevra Hsu, Sylvia Santiago, Michelle Enehiwealu Iruobe, Emily Simroth, Mwenya S. Chikwa, Anna Brock, Makeda K. Braithwaite, Jenelle DeCosta, Isabel Hinchliff, Kirsty Thomas, Isadora H. Petrovsky, Diana DeVault, Jayasri Sridhar, Oladosu Michael Emerald, Gabriela Lee, Kristi Chadwick, Esperanza Godot, Eliza Eun
Alumni Staff
Lynne M. Thomas- Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Meg Elison- Nonfiction Editor
Chimedum Ohaegbu- Managing Editor/Poetry Editor
Naomi Day- Senior Assistant Editor
Elsa Sjunneson- Nonfiction Editor
Joy Piedmont- Podcast Reader
Angel Cruz- Assistant Editor
Michi Trota- Managing/Nonfiction Editor
Stephanie Malia Morris- Podcast Reader
Mimi Mondal- Poetry/Reprint Editor
Julia Rios- Poetry/Reprint Editor
Amal El-Mohtar- Podcast Reader
C. S. E. Cooney- Podcast Reader
Deborah Stanish- Interviewer
Shana DuBois- Interviewer