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Elizabeth Schechter

Elizabeth Schechter has been called one of the top erotica and alternative sexuality writers in the world. Her writing credits include the award-winning steampunk erotic romance House of Sable Locks, the Celtic fantasy Princes of Air, and 2021 VIVIAN finalist […]

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Effie Seiberg

Effie Seiberg is a fantasy and science fiction writer. Her stories can be found in the “Women Destroy Science Fiction!” special edition of Lightspeed Magazine (winner of the 2015 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology), “The Best of Galaxy’s Edge […]

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Nibedita Sen

Nibedita Sen is a Hugo, Nebula, and Ignyte Award-nominated queer Bengali writer from Kolkata, and a graduate of Clarion West 2015 whose work has appeared in venues such as Podcastle, Nightmare and Fireside. She accumulated a number of English degrees […]

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Peng Shepherd

Peng is a speculative fiction writer. Her first novel, The Book of M, won the 2019 Neukom Institute for Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative Fiction, and was chosen as a best book of the year by Amazon, Elle, and The Verge, as well as […]

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Alex Shvartsman

Alex Shvartsman is the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani’s Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, etc. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (2014) […]

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Elsa Sjunneson

Elsa Sjunneson is a Deafblind author and editor living in Seattle, Washington. She has been a Hugo Award finalist seven times, and has won Hugo, Aurora, and BFA awards for her editorial work. When she isn’t writing, Sjunneson works to […]

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Rebecca Slitt

Rebecca Slitt is an editor and partner at Choice of Games and Heart’s Choice. For Choice of Games, she is the author of the YA paranormal interactive novels Psy High and Psy High 2; and has edited more than 20 […]

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Angela Smith

Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Shimanchu-American and award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years of experience as a professional writer in nonfiction. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), a two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA […]

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