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 […]

Nadia Bulkin writes scary stories about the scary world we live in, three of which have been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her stories have been included in volumes of The Year’s Best Weird Fiction and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and in venues such as ChiZine, Fantasy, and The Dark. She […]

Coral Moore has always been the kind of girl who makes up stories. Fortunately, she never grew out of that. She writes character driven fiction, and enjoys conversations about genetics and microbiology as much as those about vampires and werewolves. She has an MFA in Writing from Albertus Magnus College and is an alum of […]

Filipino writer, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, lives and writes in The Netherlands. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop which she attended as the Octavia Butler scholar. Her work has been published in a variety of online and print publications and together with her sister, she put up the bookblog Push. She has written […]

Chinelo Onwualu is an editorial consultant living in Abuja, Nigeria. She is a graduate of the 2014 Clarion West Writers Workshop, which she attended as the recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship. She is editor and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African speculative fiction. Her writing has appeared in several places, including Strange […]

Maurice Broaddus is the author of the Knights of Breton Court urban fantasy trilogy: King Maker, King’s Justice, and King’s War (Angry Robot Books). His fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine, and Weird Tales Magazine. Some of his stories are being collected […]

Jeremy Sim is a Singaporean-American writer and author of more than a dozen short stories, most notably in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cicada, and Crossed Genres. He is a graduate of Odyssey and Clarion West Writing Workshops, where he was awarded the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship in 2011. He currently lives in Berlin, Germany, where […]

Cadwell Turnbull is a graduate from the North Carolina State University’s Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and English MA in Linguistics . He was the winner of the 2014 NCSU Prize for Short Fiction and attended Clarion West 2016. His debut novel, The Lesson, set in near-future U.S. Virgin Islands after an alien colonization, is […]