First generation Nigerian-American writer, Ihuoma Ofordire was born and raised in Washington, DC to immigrant parents. One of seven children, Ofordire pulls her creativity from her multi-cultural childhood, fusing a blend of her West African roots and her east coast […]
Aimee Ogden is a former science teacher and software tester; now she writes stories about sad astronauts and space mermaids. Her debut novella “Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters” is a 2021 Nebula finalist, and her short fiction has appeared in publications such as […]
Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian author of Son of the Storm (Orbit, 2021) and David Mogo, Godhunter (Abaddon, 2019). His short stories and essays have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies. Find him at @IAmSuyiDavies on Twitter and @suyidavies on Instagram, or learn more […]
Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post. She is the creator of the serial Ninth Step Station, currently running […]
Ayodele Olofintuade is a queer, non-binary black feminist. She is the author of Lakiriboto Chronicles: A Brief History of Badly Behaved Women (2018), Eno’s Story (2010)—shortlisted for the NLNG Prize in 2011. Her short stories and essays have been published […]
Deji Bryce Olukotun is the author of two novels and his fiction has appeared in seven different book collections. His novel After the Flare won the 2018 Philip K. Dick special citation, and was chosen as one of the best […]
Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Riot Baby, a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Awards and winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction; the Beasts Made of Night series; and the War Girls series. He has earned degrees from […]
Kristin (she/her) is a queer fantasy writer who lives with her husband in northeastern Japan, where she works as a freelance Japanese-to-English translator when she’s not wordsmithing, working on nerdy cross-stitching, or cuddling her two cats. She has translated games […]
Emma Osborne is a queer fiction writer and poet from Melbourne, Australia. Their writing has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Shock Totem: Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, Apex Magazine, Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Pseudopod, the Review of Australian […]