Micaela Morrissette is the managing editor of Conjunctions. Her fiction has been published in The Bestiary (Centipede, 2016), The New Black (Dark House, 2014), The Weird (Tor, 2012), Best Horror of the Year 2 (Night Shade, 2010), Best American Fantasy 2 (Prime, 2008), and elsewhere; and can be found online at BOMB and Tor.com.

Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of venues, including Analog, Escape Pod, Augur, and Nightmare Magazine. Her debut novel, Beneath the Rising, is out now from Solaris Books, with the sequel due out in 2021. She can be found […]

LaShawn M. Wanak is a graduate of the 2011 class of Viable Paradise. Her fiction has been published in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and Ideomancer. She served as Associate Editor at Podcastle, and has written nonfiction for Fantasy Magazine, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and the anthology Invisible 2.

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Shadow Year, The Girl in the Glass, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Cosmology of the Wider World and the short story collections The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of […]

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 […]