A. Merc Rustad is a queer non-binary writer who likes dinosaurs, robots, monsters, and cookies. Their vivid and emotionally-compelling fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex, Fireside, and Shimmer. Their stories “How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps” and “This is Not a Wardrobe Door” have been included in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, […]
Katharine Duckett writes, works in publishing, travels the world, and creates multimedia theater pieces with Daniel Flores Dance. Her fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine and Interzone, and Wilde Stories 2015: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared on The Toast and Tor.com. Currently living in Brooklyn and originally from East Tennessee, […]
Vina Jie-Min Prasad is a Singaporean writer working against the world-machine. She is a recent graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, and she’s already drawing attention for her 2017 stories “Fandom for Robots” and “A Series of Steaks.” Her beautifully crafted fiction shows remarkable range both in ideas and in tone, and the worlds […]
A. T. Greenblatt is a mechanical engineer by day and a writer by night. She lives in Philadelphia where she’s well acquainted with all four seasons and is known to frequently subject her friends to various cooking and home-brewing experiments. Her recent publications include “A Place to Grow” and “A Non-Hero’s Guide to the Road […]
Sunny Moraine is a doctoral candidate in sociology and a college instructor, living just outside Washington, DC. Their short fiction has appeared in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Tor.com, and also in their debut collection Singing With All My Skin and Bone. Moraine is also responsible for the Root Code and Casting the Bones trilogies, and the horror fiction podcast Gone. This story […]
S.B. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing, and worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer. Divya uses her academic and engineering background to create vivid, well-imagined futures, including the high-tech world of her Nebula-finalist novella, Runtime. “Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse” is her first appearance in Uncanny, and she has once […]
Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning writer of science fiction, fantasy, feminist essays, and humour. She lives in Tasmania, Australia, with her husband and two superhero daughters. Tansy is a co-host of Galactic Suburbia and Verity!, and also has her own weekly fiction podcast, Sheep Might Fly, where she reads her own fiction serials. She […]
Sam Joshua Miller attended Rutgers University, where he studied cinema studies and Russian language and literature, and met his future husband. Miller began publishing short fiction in the early aughts before attending the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Workshop in 2012. He’s published multiple award-winning and -nominated short fiction stories, his debut novel, the […]
Delia Sherman writes books for children and adults. Her most recent book, The Evil Wizard Smallbone, was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for childrens’ and young adult fantasy and science fiction, and her previous novel for children, The Freedom Maze won the Andre Norton Award in 2012. She’s also worked as an editor, […]
C. S. E. Cooney is a singer-songwriter, audiobook narrator, actor, poet, and writer. She won the Rhysling Award for her poem “The Sea King’s Second Bride” in 2010, and the World Fantasy Award for her prose collection Bone Swans in 2016. Her alter-ego, the rock star Brimstone Rhine, has produced two albums with more in […]