Panelists
Martha Wells
Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, The Death of the Necromancer, the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, The Murderbot Diaries series, […]
Erich Werner
Erich Alan Werner is the pen name of Ricky Werner, a SFF writer and writing teacher living in Nyack, New York. His stories have appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Writer’s Eye. He teaches English and […]
Alex White
Alex White was born in Mississippi and has lived most of their life in the American South. Alex is the author of the Starmetal Symphony Trilogy and The Salvagers Trilogy; as well as official novels for Alien (THE COLD FORGE, […]
April White
APRIL WHITE has been a film producer, private investigator, bouncer, teacher and screenwriter. She has climbed in the Himalayas, survived a shipwreck, and lived on a gold mine in the Yukon. She and her husband share their home in Southern […]
Sally Wiener Grotta
Sally Wiener Grotta is an award-winning writer, photographer and speaker whose books include “The Winter Boy” (a Locus Magazine Recommended Read) and “Jo Joe” (a Jewish Book Council Network Book). As a journalist, Sally has traveled on assignment throughout the […]
Don Wilburn Jr.
Don Wilburn Jr. is the author of the near-term Science Fiction Thrillers, The God Protocol: Dragon, and The God Protocol: Worshippers. He has twenty-seven years of government service as a Naval Officer and with the Transportation Security Administration. He holds […]
Fran Wilde
Double Nebula winner Fran Wilde writes science fiction and fantasy for adults and kids, with seven books, so far, that embrace worlds unique (Updraft, The Gemworld) and portal (Riverland, The Ship of Stolen Words), plus numerous short stories appearing in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny, […]
Alison Wilgus
Alison is a comics writer and editor who tells emotionally intimate stories about small people in a big world. Currently they’re working on Grace Needs Space! with artist Rii Abrego; their previous books include The Mars Challenge, illustrated by Wyeth […]