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Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma’s fiction has appeared in venues such as Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor. She’s been anthologized in several of Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series, Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series, Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, Steve Haynes’ Best British Fantasy 2014 […]

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Rachael K. Jones

Rachael K. Jones grew up in various cities across Europe and North America, picked up (and mostly forgot) six languages, an addiction to running, and a couple of degrees. Now she writes speculative fiction in Athens, Georgia, where she lives with her husband. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in dozens of venues, including […]

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An Owomoyela

An (pronounce it “On”) Owomoyela is a neutrois author with a background in web development, linguistics, and weaving chain maille out of stainless steel fencing wire, whose fiction has appeared in a number of venues including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and a handful of Year’s Bests. An’s interests range from pulsars and Cepheid variables to gender […]

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Rachel Swirsky

Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and graduated from Clarion West in 2005. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and others, and twice won the Nebula Award. She lives in Bakersfield with five cats which, she would like to inform […]

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Lara Elena Donnelly

Lara Elena Donnelly is a graduate of the Clarion and Alpha workshops, and now acts as on-site staff and publicity coordinator for the latter. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, and Escape Pod. Her debut novel, the vintage-glam spy thriller Amberlough, is forthcoming from Tor in February 2017. While […]

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Amanda Downum

Amanda Downum is the author of the Necromancer Chronicles and Dreams of Shreds & Tatters. Her short fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales, and in the anthologies Lovecraft Unbound and Dreams From the Witch House. She lives in Austin, TX. Her day job sometimes involves dressing as a giant […]

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Gabriela Santiago

Gabriela Santiago grew up in Illinois, Montana, Florida, and Yokosuka, Japan; these days she lives in St. Paul, where she spends her days professionally playing with kids at the Minnesota Children’s Museum. She is a graduate of Macalester College and the Clarion writing workshop, as well as a proud member of Team Tiny Bonesaw. Her […]

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Russell Nichols

Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, California, he got rid of all his stuff in 2011 to live out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding around the world ever since. Look for him at russellnichols.com.

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Nick Mamatas

Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including I Am Providence and Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared on Tor.com, Weird Tales, Best American Mystery Stories, and many other venues—much of it was recently collected in The People’s Republic of Everything. Nick is also an anthologist; his titles include the Bram Stoker Award winner Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow) and the hybrid flash […]

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G. Neri

G. Neri is the Coretta Scott King honor-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and the recipient of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for his free verse novella, Chess Rumble. His novels include Surf Mules, the Horace Mann Upstander Award-winning Ghetto Cowboy, and Knockout Games, winner of the Florida […]

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