Sean Bodley is inspired and motivated by the impact of human caused climate change. He studied Drawing and Painting at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, completing a BFA in 2010. In 2011 he moved to Lemont, Pennsylvania, and started Mount Nittany Studio where he worked as a freelance illustrator, fine art painter, and teacher. Currently he lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where he is a background designer for Rick and Morty. In his free time he loves being outside, plein air painting, and video games.
James Bradley is a writer and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, and Clade, all of which have won or been nominated for major literary awards; a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus; and The Penguin Book of the Ocean. In 2012 he won the Pascall Prize for Australia’s Critic of the Year. His newest novel, Ghost Species, is published by Hodder Studio. He lives on Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia.
Greg Egan has published fourteen novels and more than sixty works of short fiction, including the Hugo Award–winning novella “Oceanic.” His latest collection is Instantiation and his most recent novel is The Book of All Skies. He lives in Perth, Australia.
Meg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her series The Road to Nowhere won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. She is a Hugo, Nebula, and Otherwise awards finalist. In 2020, she published her first collection, Big Girl, with PM Press, containing the Locus Award–winning novelette, The Pill. Elison’s first young adult novel, Find Layla, was published in 2020 by Skyscape. Meg has been published in McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley.
Hugo Award winner and best-selling author Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe. Their short fiction credits include Vice and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, River of Teeth, was a 2018 Hugo and Nebula award finalist. Their best-selling adult novel debut, Magic for Liars, was published in 2019. Their most recent novel is The Echo Wife.
Daryl Gregory’s novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, and have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Lambda, and Sturgeon awards. His latest books are the novel Revelator (Knopf) and the novella The Album of Dr. Moreau (Tordotcom). His eight other books include Spoonbenders, We Are All Completely Fine, Afterparty, the Crawford Award–winning novel Pandemonium, and the collection Unpossible and Other Stories, a Publishers Weekly book of the year. He also teaches writing and is a regular instructor at the Viable Paradise writing workshop.
Saad Z. Hossain is the author of three novels, Escape from Baghdad!, Djinn City, and Cybermage. His science fantasy novella, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, was published in 2019 and was followed by Kundo Wakes Up earlier this year. He lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Malka Older is a writer, academic, and aid worker. She is currently a faculty associate at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she teaches on the humanitarian-development spectrum and on predictive fiction, and an associate researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations.
Her science fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post. She is also the author of the sequels Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018), and the full trilogy was nominated for a Hugo Award. She is also the creator of the serial Ninth Step Station and lead writer for the licensed sequel to Orphan Black, both currently running on Realm. Her short story and poetry collection . . . and Other Disasters came out in late 2019. Her short fiction and poetry can be found at WIRED, Slate Future Tense, Leveler, Sundog Lit, Reservoir Lit, Inkscrawl, Rogue Agent, Tor.com, Fireside Magazine, and others. She has written opinion pieces for the New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and NBC News THINK.
Chen Qiufan (a.k.a. Stanley Chan) is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, creative producer, and curator. He is the honorary president of the Chinese Science Fiction Writers Association and has a seat on the XPRIZE Foundation Science Fiction Advisory Council. His works include the novel Waste Tide and, coauthored with Kai-Fu Lee, the book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. He currently lives in Shanghai and is the founder of Thema Mundi Studio.
Justina Robson is the author of eleven published science fiction novels and many short stories. She was the winner of the 2000 Amazon Writers’ Bursary for her first two novels, which explored AI and human engineering, respectively. Her later work continued to explore science fiction and to merge it with fantasy, culminating in the popular Quantum Gravity series. In addition to her original work, she has also written Transformers: The Covenant of Primus and a fantasy novel in the After the War shared world series from Solaris.
Tade Thompson is the author of the Rosewater novels, the Molly Southbourne books, Making Wolf, and Far from the Light of Heaven. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nommo Award, the Prix Julia-Verlange, and been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, the Locus Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Hugo Award, among others. He lives and works on the south coast of England.
Jonathan Strahan (www.jonathanstrahan.com.au) is a World Fantasy Award–winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster and has been nominated for the Hugo Award nineteen times. He has edited more than ninety books, is the reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com and Tordotcom Publishing, and cohost and producer of the Hugo-winning Coode Street Podcast.