Ashok K. Banker is the author of more than sixty books, including the internationally acclaimed Ramayana series. His works have all been bestsellers in India and have sold around the world. His latest novel is the first in a new epic fantasy series, Upon a Burning Throne. He lives in Los Angeles.

Kathleen Kayembe is the Octavia E. Butler Scholar from Clarion’s class of 2016, with short stories forthcoming from Lightspeed and Nightmare. She writes paranormal romance as Kaseka Nvita, co-hosts the Write Pack Radio weekly writing podcast as herself, and lives on Twitter as @mkkayembe. A longtime member of the St. Louis Writers Guild, she organizes […]

Jenn Grunigen is a writer and a drummer. She plays in the neofolk metal band Felled, has an MA in folklore, and is a graduate of the 2016 Clarion Writers’ workshop. Her writing has appeared in/is forthcoming from Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. Her post-apocalyptic SF novel, Skyglass, a wild tale of sex, […]

Lilliam Rivera is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 Clarion graduate. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Los Angeles Times, Latina, and forthcoming in Fantasy & Science Fiction. She is the author of the young adult novel The Education of Margot Sanchez, which debuted on February 21, 2017 from Simon & Schuster. […]

Alex Hofelich is Co-Editor of Pseudopod, the longest running weekly short horror fiction podcast. Each episode of the podcasts typically consists of a single-narrator readings with minimal production (no dramatic adaptations, little to no production effect in a radio theater style). They run a mixture of new and classic fiction. Since you’re reading this in […]

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting, as well as drawing a webcomic for five years. She believes that every story is a journey, and that a good tale allows the reader to escape to a new world. She also enjoys […]

Colin Dickey grew up in San Jose, California, a few miles from the Winchester Mystery House, the most haunted house in America. As a writer, speaker, and academic, he has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. He’s a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books […]

Christian A. Coleman is a 2013 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. He lives and writes in the Boston area. He tweets at @coleman_II.

Michael Shea (1946-2014) was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author who lived in California. He was a multiple winner of the World Fantasy Award and his works include Nifft the Lean (winner of the World Fantasy Award) and The Mines of Behemoth (later republished together as The Incomplete Nifft), as well as The A’Rak and In […]