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Alex Penland

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-winning fiction editor. Currently, she is Executive Editor at Erewhon Books. She has over fifteen years of experience in book publishing and podcasts, most prominently at the Tor […]

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John Picacio

JOHN PICACIO is one of the most acclaimed American artists in science fiction and fantasy over the last decade, creating best-selling art for George R. R. Martin’s A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE series, as well as the STAR TREK […]

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Aimee Picchi

Aimee’s short fiction has appeared in Podcastle, Fireside, Flash Fiction Online and Daily Science Fiction, among other publications. She’s also a graduate of Viable Paradise and a former classical musician. By day, she is a business journalist with CBS News. […]

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Marisca Pichette

Marisca Pichette

Marisca Pichette collects beautiful monsters. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Vastarien, Fusion Fragment, Apparition Lit, Flash Fiction Online, PseudoPod, and PodCastle, among others. Her speculative poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your […]

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Laura Picklesimer

Laura Picklesimer

Laura’s debut novel KILL FOR LOVE was released by Unnamed Press in September 2023. Her fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review and Rougarou Journal, among other publications, and she was a finalist for the Speculative Literature Foundation Diverse Worlds […]

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Maria Picone

Maria S. Picone

Maria S. Picone—수영—(she/her/hers) has three forthcoming chapbooks, Anti Asian Bias (Game Over Books), Adoptee Song (Game Over Books), and Propulsion (Conium). Maria is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission. She won Cream City […]

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Terese Mason Pierre

Terese Mason Pierre is an award-winning writer of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in multiple speculative and literary journals, online and in print. She is an editor at Augur Magazine and lives in Toronto, Canada.

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