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Somto Ihezue

Somto Ihezue is an Igbo writer, filmmaker, and wildlife enthusiast. A Nommo Award-nominee and Winner of the African Youth Network Movement Fiction Contest, his works have appeared or are forthcoming in Tordotcom: Africa Risen Anthology, Omenana Magazine, The 2021 Year’s […]

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Jon Ingold

Jon Ingold is the co-founder of inkle, a multi-award winning independent studio making narrative games, notably 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault. He’s the co-designer of ink, a writer-friendly scripting language for interactive fiction, and his talks on interactive dialogue construction and responsive narrative design […]

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Elle E. Ire

Elle Ire writes Sapphic science fiction/romance and paranormal romance featuring kickass women who fall in love with each other. Her current publications include: Vicious Circle (2015), the Storm Fronts trilogy (2019-2020), Reel to Real Love (2021), the Nearly Departed trilogy […]

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Patricia Jackson

Patricia A. Jackson is an English teacher in Pennsylvania. Her best known works are Black Sands of Socorro, a sourcebook for Star Wars: The Role-Playing Game, and The Final Exit, a short story published in the Bantam-Spectra anthology, Star Wars: […]

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Marissa James

As a fine art professional, Marissa has wielded katanas and handled Lady Gaga’s shoes. As a veterinary assistant, she has cared for hairless cats, hedgehogs, and, one time, a coyote. As a writer, her short fiction can be found in […]

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Naseem Jamnia

Naseem Jamnia (they/them) is a Persian-Chicagoan, former scientist, and fiction MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno. Their work has appeared in The Washington Post, Bitch Media, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer’s Chronicle, and other venues. A Lambda Literary, […]

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N.K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in the genre’s history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugos, for her Broken Earth trilogy. Her most recent novel is the NYT-bestselling THE CITY WE BECAME. She is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. […]

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Alex Jennings

Alex Jennings

Alex Jennings writes and teaches in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in strangehorizons.com, podcastle.org, and numerous anthologies including Stories for Chip, and New Suns. His debut collection, Here I Come and Other Stories was released by Fight On! Publications […]

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