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 […]
Mary Robinette Kowal is multitalented artist who has crafted puppets, regency gowns, and novels, among other things. She won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 2008, and has won multiple awards for her writing since then. “For Want of a Nail” won the Hugo Award for best short story in 2011, […]
Maurice Broaddus is a community organizer and teacher whose work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Weird Tales, Apex Magazine, Asimov’s, Cemetery Dance, Black Static, and many more. Some of his stories have been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. He is the author of the urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court. He co-authored […]
Hiromi Goto is a first generation Canadian author who writes books for adults, teens, and children. Her work has received many honors, from the Sunburst Award for excellence in Canadian literature of the fantastic, to the James Tiptree Jr. Award for work that explores and expands our notions of gender, to the Carl Brandon Society […]
John Chu is a writer, translator, and narrator. His work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Tor.com, and several other places, and he won the Hugo Award in 2014 for his story, “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere.” His stories have a tendency toward gentleness as they explore issues of identity, orientation, ambition, and […]
Sarah Pinsker is a writer and a musician. Her novelette, “Our Lady of the Open Road” won the Nebula Award in 2016, and her story, “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind” won the Sturgeon Award in 2013. She lives in Baltimore, but does not work as a quantologist at Johns Hopkins. At least, not in […]
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of over 20 books and over 250 short stories. He is a professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. A Blackfeet Native American, some of his work explores themes of identity and incorporates autobiographical elements, but he’s too prolific and multifaceted to be pinned down as one […]