AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

DAVID BARNETT is a writer and journalist from the north of England. His latest novel is The Handover (Orion Books) and he has written comics for DC including Books of Magic, IDW, Archie and 2000AD. He writes on culture for the UK press including the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph. Follow David online at davidmbarnett.com.

ROSHNI “RUSH” BHATIA is a writer-director living in Los Angeles. Growing up in Mumbai, Rush was inspired by filmmakers and writers including James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Richard Matheson, and Rod Serling. Rush has several films currently on the festival circuit, with selections at Leeds International Film Festival and Morbido Film Fest. Her one-minute short film, Dark Passage, shot on an iPhone, won the #SixtyScarySeconds competition at Raindance Film Festival and has been singled out for praise by Hollywood heavyweights including Die Hard screenwriter Steven E. De Souza. Rush has also been nominated for Best Writer by the Horror Writers Association of America for her short film, Plasmid. You can follow Rush at roshnibhatia.com.

MAURICE BROADDUS: An accidental teacher (at the Oaks Academy Middle School), an accidental librarian (the School Library Manager as part of the IndyPL Shared System), and a purposeful community organizer (resident Afrofuturist at the Kheprw Institute), Maurice Broaddus’ work has appeared in Magazine of SF&F, Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s, and Uncanny Magazine, with some of his stories having been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His novels include the urban fantasy trilogy The Knights of Breton Court, the steampunk novel Pimp My Airship, and the middle grade detective novel series The Usual Suspects. As an editor, he’s worked on Dark Faith, Fireside Magazine, and Apex Magazine. His gaming work includes writing for the Marvel Super-Heroes, Leverage, and Firefly role-playing games, as well as working as a consultant on Watch Dogs 2. Learn more about him at mauricebroaddus.com.

LOUIS OZAWA stars opposite Al Pacino in Jordan Peele’s Amazon series Hunters, and just wrapped a role in Pachinko (Apple) premiering later this year. Other television highlights include Kidding opposite Catherine Keener and Jim Carrey (Showtime), the iconic DC Comics character “Hat” in Supergirl (CW), The Man in the High Castle (Amazon), Robert Rodriguez’s El-Rey series (Matador), the final season of True Blood and the Netflix series Another Life. Feature highlights include high-octane roles in Predators and The Bourne Legacy.

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, CURTIS C. CHEN now writes stories and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. He’s the author of the Kangaroo series of funny science fiction spy thrillers and has written for the Serial Box original shows Ninth Step Station, Machina, and Echo Park 2060 (forthcoming). Curtis’s short stories have appeared in Playboy magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Oregon Reads Aloud, and elsewhere. His homebrew cat feeding robot was displayed in the “Worlds Beyond Here” exhibit at Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum. Visit him online at CurtisCChen.com.

DELILAH S. DAWSON is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma and Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, as well as the Blud series, the Hit series, and the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen), plus comics in the worlds of Star Wars, Firefly, The X-Files Case Files, Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, and Labyrinth. As a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, her stories most often focus on women, once victims, who are reclaiming their power. Website: delilahsdawson.com.

SEANAN MCGUIRE (writing as MIRA GRANT) is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, all published within the last five years, which may explain why some people believe that she does not actually sleep. Her work has been translated into several languages, and resulted in her receiving a record five Hugo Award nominations on the 2013 ballot. When not writing, Seanan spends her time reading, watching terrible horror movies and too much television, visiting Disney Parks, and rating haunted corn mazes. You can keep up with Seanan at seananmcguire.com.

SUSANNE L. LAMBDIN is best known for writing the story for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Family” (Season 4) and is the author of the Dead Hearts series, the Realm of Magic trilogy and Acropolis 3000: Genesis. Find her online at susannelambdin.com.

JESS LANDRY is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author and produced screenwriter whose fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Her debut collection, The Mother Wound, is set for release in 2021, and her screen credits include four Movies of the Week, a sitcom, and her original horror feature, My Only Sunshine, which is currently in development, among other projects. Find Jess online at jesslandry.com.

E.C. MYERS was assembled in the U.S. from Korean and German parts and raised by a single mother and the public library in Yonkers, New York. His books include the Andre Norton Award-winning Fair Coin, The Silence of Six, RWBY: After the Fall, and RWBY: Fairy Tales of Remnant. His short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies such as A Thousand Beginnings and Endings and Mother of Invention, and he co-writes several series for Serial Box, including Orphan Black: The Next Chapter and Alternis. E.C. lives with his wife, son, and three doofy pets in Pennsylvania. Find him online at ecmyers.net.

YVONNE NAVARRO is a multi-genre author and artist. She has written numerous media tie-in novels, including Elektra, Species, Species II, Aliens: Music of the Spears, Ultraviolet, and the first Hellboy. Her most recent original tie-in novel was Supernatural: The Usual Sacrifices, published by Titan Books on June 27, 2017.

CHRIS RYALL is an award-winning writer/editor. He was most recently the President, Publisher and Chief Creative Officer at IDW Publishing, a publishing house where he spent the better part of the past sixteen years. He is also the comic-book editor of and Executive Producer on Locke & Key, currently streaming on Netflix. He is also the Eisner-nominated writer/co-creator of comic series including Zombies vs Robots, in development at Sony Pictures; Groom Lake; The Colonized; The Hollows; and more. In 2009, he co-authored a prose book about comics, Comic Books 101, and in 2020, formed Syzygy Publishing with artist Ashley Wood, and is currently producing new comic books and television series. Follow Chris online at worldofsyzygy.com.

STEVEN L. SEARS is a writer-producer who has worked on such shows as Xena: Warrior Princess, The A-Team, and many other hit series. Steven L. Sears’ work has been lauded for diversity and inclusiveness, and he has appeared many times to be on panels and as a guest lecturer on the issue of pursuing and enhancing the presentation of diversity in media. From issues of race, sexual orientation, gender identification, and gender equality, his work and core beliefs have always pursued the idea of diversity enriching us all. Website: www.stevenlsears.com.

#1 New York Times bestselling author SCOTT SIGLER is the creator of nineteen novels, seven novellas, and dozens of short stories. He gives away his stories as weekly, serialized, audiobooks, with over 40 million episodes downloaded. Find Scott at scottsigler.com.