Jessica Amanda Salmonson is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, ReaderCon Certificate, and Lambda Award. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in a great many magazines and anthologies including “Year’s Best.” She is the author of three novels in “The Tomoe Gozen Saga,” and a non-fiction reference book, The Encyclopedia of Amazons. She […]

Anya Martin was weaned on Friday Night Frights and, from an early age, has rooted for the monster. Her next published work, the one–act play Passage to the Dreamtime, about a Nazi officer’s prison confrontation with both his American lover and past deeds, will be published as a limited edition chapbook from Dunhams Manor Press […]

V.H. Leslie’s stories have appeared in a range of publications, including Black Static, Interzone and Shadows and Tall Trees, and have been reprinted in a range of ‘Year’s Best’ anthologies. Her short story collection Skein and Bone from Undertow Books was a finalist for both the 2016 British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards for Best […]

Cynthia Ward has published stories in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Shattered Prism, Weird Tales, Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (Prime Books), and other anthologies and magazines. Her stories “Norms” and “#rising” made the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List for 2011 and 2014. She edited the anthologies Lost Trails: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West Volumes One […]

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 […]