Leah Cypess
Leah Cypess is the author of the Sisters Ever After books, a series of stand-alone middle grade novels that retell fairy tales from the points of view of forgotten younger sisters. The first book in the series, Thornwood, is a […]
Panelists
Claire Davon
USA Today Bestselling author Claire Davon has written for most of her life, starting with fan fiction when she was very young. She writes across a wide range of genres. If a story calls to her, she will write it. […]
Beth Dawkins
Beth Dawkins grew up on front porches, fighting imaginary monsters with sticks, and building castles out of square hay bales. She currently lives in Northeast Georgia with her partner in crime and their offspring. She can be found on Twitter […]
J.R. Dawson
J. R. Dawson (she/they) has published shorter works in places such as F&SF, Lightspeed, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Omaha with her spouse and three dogs in the middle of a city park. Having […]
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and five British Science Fiction Association Awards. She is the author of the lesbian space pirates […]
Aya de León
Aya de León Aya is the award-winning author of nine novels and she teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She is the acquiring editor for Fighting Chance Books, the new climate justice fiction imprint at She Writes Press. In October, Candlewick Press published her […]
Paul Dees
Paul Dees is an Aerospace Engineer for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center and the NASA X-59 Deputy Propulsion Lead. His experience is in jet engine integration and testing, jet engine sensor validation, sonic boom noise measurements, and pilot display development. He […]
Whitney Delaglio
Whitney Delaglio (she/her/bro) is a nerd whose works include Prism, Tiny Tusks (part of the 2021 Level 1 Anthology — Ennie Award for Best Free Product), and a contributor to the Nebula Award Winner for Best Game Writing: Thirsty Sword […]
Blue Delliquanti
Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis, MN. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com. Blue is also the co-creator of the graphic novel Meal (with Soleil Ho), published […]
Michael J. Deluca
Michael J. DeLuca (he/him) lives in the rapidly suburbifying post-industrial woodlands north of Detroit with partner, kid, cats and microbes. He is the publisher of Reckoning, a journal of creative writing on environmental justice. His short fiction has appeared in […]