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Ben Passmore

Ben Passmore’s work ranges from the wild to the wildly autobiographical, containing cold takes on politics, anarchism, police brutality, history, sports, and black identity. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Believer magazine, and MOMA magazine. He is […]

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Carrie Patel (she/her)

“Carrie Patel is a Senior Narrative Designer and Game Director at Obsidian Entertainment, where she has worked on The Outer Worlds and Pillars of Eternity franchises. She wrote for the original Pillars of Eternity and The White March expansions, worked […]

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Monique Patterson

Monique Patterson is vice president and editorial director of Bramble. The quote “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town,” by Leo Tolstoy, is one of her favorites, […]

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Liz Pelletier

Liz Pelletier is co-founder and managing partner of Savvy Media Services, which owns Savvy Authors, Savvy Readers, and Entangled Publishing. In addition to running a successful online writing community, Liz is an award-winning author, a workshop instructor, and a freelance […]

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Leslye Penelope

Leslye Penelope has been writing since she could hold a pen and loves getting lost in the worlds in her head. She is an award-winning fantasy and paranormal romance author. Her novel Song of Blood & Stone was chosen as one of TIME Magazine’s […]

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Alex Penland

Alex Penland is a former museum kid. They spent their childhood running rampant through the Smithsonian museums, which kicked off an early career as a child adventurer. Alex has worked in the field with NASA scientists, linguists, and acclaimed photographers. […]

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Benjamin Percy

Benjamin Percy is the author of five novels — most recently, The Ninth Metal — three story collections — including Suicide Woods — and a book of essays titled Thrill Me that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes both Wolverine and X-Force for […]

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Brenda Peynado

Brenda Peynado’s genre-bending short story collection, THE ROCK EATERS—featuring alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones—garnered starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, and was named one of NPR, the New York […]

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Diana M. Pho

Diana M. Pho is a queer Vietnamese-American independent scholar, playwright, and Hugo Award-nominated fiction editor. She has over a decade of experience in traditional, Big Five publishing, including Tor Books, Tor.com Publishing, and the Science Fiction Book Club. Diana currently […]

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