S.R. Mandel
S.R. Mandel is from San Francisco, Boston, and Philadelphia, in that order. Her background is in literature and media; she has lived and taught in France, Japan, and the Middle East. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apex, […]
Panelists
Victor Manibo
Victor Manibo is a Filipino speculative fiction writer living in New York. A 2022 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow, he is the author of the science fiction noir novel THE SLEEPLESS. His next novel, ESCAPE VELOCITY, is forthcoming from Erewhon […]
PJ Manney
PJ Manney wrote the bestselling and Philip K. Dick Award-nominated Phoenix Horizon trilogy: (R)EVOLUTION, (ID)ENTITY, and (CON)SCIENCE. A former chairperson of Humanity+, she authored “Yucky Gets Yummy: How Speculative Fiction Creates Society” and “Empathy in the Time of Technology: How […]
Cat Manning
Cat Manning is a narrative designer and writer who’s interested in procedural storytelling and social simulation mechanics. She’s worked on several indie games including Where the Water Tastes Like Wine and Pathologic 2. She’s also a recovering academic and classical […]
Marshall Ryan Maresca
Marshall Ryan Maresca is a fantasy and science-fiction writer, author of the Maradaine Saga: Four braided series set amid the bustling streets and crime-ridden districts of the exotic city called Maradaine, which includes The Thorn of Dentonhill, A Murder of […]
TB Markinson
TB Markinson has published over 30 novels, many of them making the Amazon bestseller lists for lesbian fiction and lesbian romance. In 2017, TB founded I Heart SapphFic (iheartsapphfic.com), a place for authors and readers to come together to celebrate […]
E.M. Markoff
Horror fantasist E.M. Markoff writes about damaged heroes and imperfect villains; she is also a klecksography artist. Her works include THE DEADBRINGER and TO NURTURE & KILL, for which she respectively won fantasy and novella finalist awards from the Next […]
Arkady Martine
Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. Under both names she writes about border politics, narrative and rhetoric, risk communication, and the edges of the […]
Kate Maruyama
Kate Maruyama’s is the author of Harrowgate (47North) Halloween Beyond: A Gentleman’s Suit (Crystal Lake) named best fiction book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Magazine, and Bleak Houses (Raw Dog Screaming Press, August 23) as well as The Collective, out […]