Jeff is a writer from Maryland who works for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, home of New Horizons and Parker Solar Probe. He’s only a software licensing analyst, though, and doesn’t do any cool stuff like building space probes […]
Vanessa is a fantasy author whose life seldom strays from the world of books, especially during winter hibernation. Even her volunteer work revolves around the literary world, currently as co-founder of KW Writers Alliance. When she’s not being bookish, she’s […]
Author of Eve of Snows, a Grand Prize winner in the 2020 Next Gen Indie Book Awards, Grand Prize in the Epic Fantasy Fanatics Readers Choice Awards, and Bronze Medalist in the Independent Publisher Awards for Fantasy.
Endria Isa Richardson is a gay black and Malaysian scholar, writer, and lawyer. Endria’s work explores speculative literature as a robust site for the development and popular dissemination of critical philosophies of race, black phenomenology, decolonial thought, and theories of […]
Lauren Ring (she/her) is a perpetually tired Jewish lesbian who writes about possible futures, for better or for worse. She is a Nebula Award finalist, and her short fiction can be found in venues such as F&SF, Nature, and Lightspeed. […]
Julia Rios is a queer, Latinx writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator whose fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Lightspeed, and Goblin Fruit, among other places. Their editing work has won multiple awards including the Hugo […]
Kate Ristau is an author, folklorist, and the Executive Director of Willamette Writers. She is the author of three middle grade series, Clockbreakers, Mythwakers, and Wylde Wings, and the young adult series, Shadow Girl. You can read her essays in The New York Times and The Washington Post. In her […]
Rebecca Roanhorse is a NYTimes bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer and the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Rebecca has published multiple award-winning short stories and five novels, including two […]
Erin Roberts is a speculative fiction writer whose prose has appeared in publications including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and the book collections “The Year’s Best Science Fiction” and “The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror.” In addition, her interactive fiction […]