Yasser Abdel Latif was born in Cairo in 1969. He graduated from Cairo University in Philosophy in 1994. He has one collection of poetry (Naas wa Ahjar, 1995). He wrote several scripts for TV documentaries. In 2005 he was awarded the Sawiris Prize for his debut novel, Qanoon al-Wiratha, excerpted in Banipal No. 26.
Anatoly Belilovsky was born in a city that went through six or seven owners in the last century, all of whom used it to do a lot more than drive to church on Sundays; he is old enough to remember tanks rolling through it on their way to Czechoslovakia in 1968. After being traded to the US for a shipload of grain and a defector to be named later (courtesy of the Jackson-Vanik amendment), he learned English from Star Trek reruns and went on to become a pediatrician in an area of New York where English is only the fourth most commonly used language. He has neither cats nor dogs but was admitted into SFWA in spite of this deficiency, having published original and translated stories in Nature, F&SF, Daily SF, Kasma, UFO, Stupefying Stories, Cast of Wonders, and other markets. He blogs about writing at loldoc.net.
Brooke Bolander writes weird things of indeterminate genre, most of them leaning rather heavily towards fantasy or general all-around weirdness. She attended the University of Leicester studying History and Archaeology and is an alum of the 2011 Clarion Writers’ Workshop at UCSD. Her stories have been featured in Lightspeed, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and various other fine purveyors of the fantastic. She has been a repeat finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon awards, much to her unending bafflement. Follow her at brookebolander.com or on Twitter at @ BBolander.
Vashti Bowlah is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her stories have appeared in various international publications such as The Caribbean Writer, St. Petersburg Review, Poui, WomanSpeak Journal, Akashic’s Duppy Thursday, Signifyin’ Guyana, Tongues of the Ocean, Jewels of the Caribbean, Susumba, and St. Somewhere Journal. Her stories center on the humble lifestyle, culture, and traditions of East Indians in Trinidad & Tobago. Bowlah is an advocate for reading and literacy, and enjoys sharing her life experiences and journey as an author through visits to schools and public libraries. She is the author of Under the Peepal Tree.
Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times Bestselling author born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work. His novels and over 50 stories have been translated into 18 different languages. His work has been nominated for awards like the Hugo, Nebula, Prometheus, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio, with his wife, twin daughters, and a pair of dogs. He can be found online at www.TobiasBuckell.com.
Raquel Castro is an award-winning Mexican author for both children and adults. She won the Premio Aguilar in 2012 for her YA horror novel, Ojos Llenos de Sombras (Eyes Full of Shadows), and recently co-edited an anthology of Mexican zombie stories with Rafael Villegas, Festín de Muertos (Feast of the Dead). She lives in Mexico City.
Phenderson Djéli Clark’s short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Tor.com, and several print anthologies, including Griots I & II, Steamfunk, and Myriad Lands. His story “The Mouser of Peter the Great” was first published in the anthology, Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, in October 2016. He blogs on SFF, diversity, and more at his blog The Disgruntled Haradrim (pdjeliclark.com). He also tweets stuff: @pdjeliclark.
Zig Zag Claybourne has appeared in Strange Horizons, Vex Mosaic, Alt History 101, FlashShot, The Reverie Journal, Stupefying Stories, The City: A Cyberfunk Anthology, UnCommon Origins, Rococoa: The Sword & Soul/Steamfunk Anthology, Extraordinary Rendition, and others. His latest novel is The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan. Visit him at www.WriteonRighton.com.
Elaine Cuyegkeng was born in Manila, Philippines, where there are many, many creaky old houses with ghosts inside them. She loves eusocial creatures both real and imaginary, ’80s pop stars, and caffeinated drinks with too much sugar. She now lives in Melbourne with her partner and a rose named Blue. She has been published in Strange Horizons, Lackington’s, The Dark, and Rocket Kapre. You can find her on @layangabi on Twitter and on Facebook.
Indrapramit Das (aka Indra Das) is a writer and artist from Kolkata, India. His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld Magazine, Asimov’s, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, and has also been widely anthologized. He is an Octavia E. Butler scholar and a grateful graduate of Clarion West 2012. He completed his M.F.A. at the University of British Columbia (class of ’11) in Vancouver, where he wore many hats, including dog hotel night shift attendant, TV background performer, minor film critic, occasional illustrator, environmental news writer, pretend-patient for med school students, and video game tester. He never wore any actual hats, except a toque during winter. He divides his time between India (where he has worked as a consulting editor for publisher, Juggernaut Books) and North America, when possible. Indra has written about books, comics, TV, and film for publications including Slant Magazine, VOGUE India, Elle India, Strange Horizons, and Vancouver Weekly. Indra’s debut novel, The Devourers, is available in South Asia and North America from Penguin India and Del Rey (Penguin Random House), respectively.
Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría, born in Buenos Aires, holds a doctorate in philosophy. She has published articles and stories in Axxón, Super Sonic, Cuásar, Ficción Científica, miNatura, Próxima, and NM, as well as the anthologies, Terra Nova, Alucinadas, Antología Steampunk, Buenos Aires Próxima, and Psychopomp II. She has also published books including Memory, translated by Lawrence Schimel, Diez variaciones sobre el amor, a collection of stories, and Lusus Naturae. (Her blogs: teresamira.blogspot.com.ar and diezvariaciones.blogspot.com.ar)
Dilman Dila is the author of a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, A Killing in the Sun. He has been listed in several prestigious prizes, including the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition (2014), the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2013), and the Short Story Day Africa prize (2013, 2014). His short fiction has been featured in several magazines and anthologies. His films include What Happened in Room 13 (2007), which has attracted over six million views on Youtube, and The Felistas Fable (2013), which was nominated for Best First Feature at Africa Movie Academy Awards (2014) and won four major awards at the Uganda Film Festival (2014). In 2016, he released his second feature film, Her Broken Shadow, a sci-fi story set in a futuristic Africa. It is now on the festival run and has screened in places like Durban International Film Festival. More of his life and works are online at www.dilmandila.com, and you can watch his films on www.youtube.com/dilstories.
Walter Dinjos is Nigerian, a Writers of the Future winner, and a runner-up in the Writers Bureau’s Writer of the Year 2017 Award. His short stories have appeared (or are upcoming) in Writers of the Future Volume #33, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Deep Magic, Galaxy’s Edge, Lamplight Magazine, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in three The Literary Hatchet issues, and he hopes to portray the peculiar beauty of Nigerian cultures through his writing. When he is not writing, he travels across Nigeria, visiting the country’s many historic sites and communities to experience their diverse cultures and traditions first-hand, and when he writes, this rich cultural heritage becomes the heart of his prose.
Tananarive Due is a former Cosby Chair in the Humanities at Spelman College (2012-2014), where she taught screenwriting, creative writing, and journalism. She also teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles. The American Book Award winner and NAACP Image Award recipient is the author of twelve novels and a civil rights memoir. In 2010, she was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism’s Hall of Achievement at Northwestern University.
Berit Ellingsen is the author of three novels, Now We Can See The Moon (Snuggly Books 2018), Not Dark Yet (Two Dollar Radio), and Une ville vide (PublieMonde), a collection of short stories, Beneath the Liquid Skin (Queen’s Ferry Press), and a mini-collection of dark fairy-tales, Vessel and Solsvart (Snuggly Books). Her work has been published in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, SmokeLong Quarterly, Unstuck, Litro, and other places and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. Berit is a member of the Norwegian Authors’ Union. http://beritellingsen.com.
Fábio Fernandes lives in São Paulo, Brazil. He has published two books so far, an essay on William Gibson’s fiction, A Construção do Imaginário Cyber, and a cyberpunk novel, Os Dias da Peste (both in Portuguese). Also a translator, he is responsible for the translation to Brazilian Portuguese of several SF novels, including Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and A Clockwork Orange. His short stories have been published online in Brazil, Portugal, Romania, the UK, New Zealand, and USA, and also in Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, Southern Fried Weirdness: Reconstruction, The Apex Book of World SF, Vol 2, and Stories for Chip. He also co-edited (with Djibril al-Ayad) the postcolonialist anthology, We See a Different Frontier. He’s a graduate of Clarion West, class of 2013 and a slush reader for Clarkesworld Magazine.
R.S.A. Garcia’s debut science fiction mystery novel, Lex Talionis, was published by Dragonwell Publishing in May, 2014. It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (IPPY 2015). She lives in Trinidad and Tobago with her extended family and far too many dogs. You can find out more about her work at rsagarcia.com.
Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence. The sixth Craft book, Ruin of Angels, was released in September 2017. Max’s interactive mobile game, Choice of the Deathless, was nominated for the XYZZY Award, and his critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and Uncanny Magazine and in anthologies such as XO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. Max has sung in Carnegie Hall and was once thrown from a horse in Mongolia.
Jaymee Goh writes fiction, poetry, and academese. A graduate of the 2016 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, she has been published in Science Fiction Studies, Strange Horizons, and Lightspeed Magazine. She recently edited The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 11: Trials by Whiteness (Aqueduct Press).
Nick Harkaway is the author of Gnomon (William Heinemann, October 2017), as well as The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, and Tigerman. He lives in London with his wife and their two children and once shared his breafast quite accidentally with a tiger. He loves reading Borges, Gibson, Proulx, and Winterson. Other important influences include Benjamin Zidarch and Susana Balbo.
Carlos Hernandez is the author of the short story collection, The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium 2016), and over 30 works of SFF, including stories, poetry, and drama. By day, he is a CUNY Associate Professor of English with a passion for game design and game-based learning.
Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica and grew up in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. Her debut novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, was the winning entry in the Warner Aspect First Novel contest and led to her winning the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has since published many acclaimed novels and short stories as well as numerous essays. She currently teaches writing at the University of California, Riverside. Her latest novel is Sister Mine.
T.L. Huchu’s fiction has appeared in Interzone, Space and Time Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, One Throne Magazine, Shattered Prism, Electric Spec, Kasma Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Mysterical-E, and the anthologies, AfroSF, African Monsters, and The Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016. Between projects, he translates fiction between the Shona and English languages. He is not to be confused with his evil twin @ TendaiHuchu or on www.tendaihuchu.com.
Walidah Imarisha is an educator, writer, public scholar, and spoken word artist. She edited two anthologies, including Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements. Imarisha’s nonfiction book, Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, recently won a 2017 Oregon Book Award. She is also the author of the poetry collection, Scars/Stars. She is currently working on an Oregon Black history book.
Emmi Itäranta was born in Tampere, Finland, where she also grew up. She holds one MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from the University of Tampere, and another from the University of Kent, UK, where she began writing her debut novel, Memory of Water, as a part of her Creative Writing masters degree. She later completed the full manuscript in both Finnish and English. The novel won the Fantasy and Sci-fi Literary Contest organised by the Finnish publishing house, Teos. It was published to enthusiastic reviews in Finland in 2012 under the title, Teemestarin kirja. In 2015 the English language version was nominated for the Philip K. Dick award in the US and the Arthur C. Clarke award in the UK. Translation rights to the award-winning novel have been sold in 21 territories to date. Itäranta’s second novel, Kudottujen kujien kaupunki, was published in 2015, and it won her the Tampere City Literary Award. In the UK the novel is known as The City of Woven Streets and in the US as The Weaver. Itäranta’s professional background is an eclectic blend of writing-related activities, including stints as a columnist, theatre critic, dramaturge, scriptwriter, and press officer. She lives in Canterbury, UK.
Rahul Kanakia’s first book, Enter Title Here (Disney-Hyperion), is a contemporary young adult novel. Additionally, his stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Apex, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, The Indiana Review, and Nature. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins. Originally from Washington, D.C., Rahul now lives in San Francisco. If you want to know more you can visit his blog at http://www.blotter-paper.com or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/rahkan.
Isha Karki is a research student at Newcastle University, UK, and an editor of Mithila Review. She worked in publishing for a few years before opting for some good-for-the-soul solo travel, and now she writes essays about feminist theory, women, and violence in South Asian literature and film. She grew up on a healthy dose of Bollywood, fanfiction, and dystopian literature. She is deeply invested in post-colonial narratives, feminist perspectives, and SFF that isn’t white-washed. Her work has appeared in Lightspeed, Mithila Review, and Mslexia. @IshaKarki11
Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an author of speculative fiction, as well as a translatgor, lawyer, and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he is the author of The Dandelion Dynasty, a silkpunk epic fantasy series (The Grace of Kings [2015], The Wall of Storms [2016], and a forthcoming third volume), and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2016), a collection. He also wrote the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017). In addition to his original fiction, Ken also translated numerous works from Chinese to English, including The Three-Body Problem (2014) by Liu Cixin, and “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners.
Barbadian, born in 1968. Writer and research consultant, BSc, MSc, MPhil, PhD, Karen Lord builds worlds, one word at a time. She was nominated for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2012. Her first novel, Redemption in Indigo, won the Frank Collymore Literary Award for 2008. It won the 2011 William L. Crawford Award, the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, the 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award, and the 2012 Golden Tentacle (The Kitschies, Best Debut Novel) and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her second novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds, won the Frank Collymore Literary Award for 2009. It also won the 2013 RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the 2014 Locus Awards Best Science Fiction Novel. The Galaxy Game was published in January 2015 as a sequel to The Best of All Possible Worlds. She also edited the anthology, New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean published by Peekash Press in 2016 through the kind collaboration of Peepal Tree Press and Akashic Books. She is @drkarenlord on Twitter and drkarenlord on Tumblr.
Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and elsewhere. She is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including I Am Providence and Hexen Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tor.com, and many other venues. Nick is also an anthologist: his work includes the Locus Award nominees, The Future Is Japanese and Hanzai Japan, both co-edited with Masumi Washington; and the hybrid cocktail recipe/fiction anthology Mixed Up, co-edited with Molly Tanzer.
Haralambi Markov is a Bulgarian critic, editor, and writer of things weird and fantastic. A Clarion 2014 graduate, Markov enjoys fairy tales, obscure folkloric monsters, and inventing death rituals (for his stories, not his neighbors…usually). Markov runs the Innumerable Voices column over Tor.com, profiling short fiction writers. He works as a freelance copywriter tweets at @HaralambiMarkov. His stories have appeared in The Weird Fiction Review, Electric Velocipede, Tor.com, Stories for Chip, The Apex Book of World SF, Uncanny, and are slated to appear in Genius Loci and Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling. He’s currently working on a novel.
Foz Meadows is a genderqueer fantasy author, essayist, reviewer, blogger and poet. She has most recently published An Accident of Stars and A Tyranny of Queens with Angry Robot and Coral Bones with Rebellion. Foz is also a reviewer for Strange Horizons, a contributing writer for The Huffington Post and Black Gate and a repeat contributor to the podcast, Geek Girl Riot. Her essays have appeared in various venues online, including The Mary Sue, A Dribble Of Ink, and The Book Smugglers. She is a two-time Hugo Award nominee for Best Fan Writer in 2014 and 2017 and won the 2017 Ditmar Award for Best Fan Writer, for which she was also nominated in 2014 and 2016. In 2017, An Accident of Stars was a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards. Foz currently lives in Brisbane with not enough books, her very own philosopher, and their voluble spawn. Surprisingly, this is a good thing.
Born in Gyeongseong, Korea, in 1930, Hiroko Minagawa is a Japanese writer of mystery, fantasy, horror, and historical fiction. Her debut work was a children’s book called The Sea and the Cross (1972), and she won the Shosetsu Gendai New Writers Prize the following year with Arcadian Summer. She has won numerous literary awards including the Mystery Writers of Japan Award (1985), the Naoki Prize (1986), the Shibata Renzaburo Prize (1990), Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature (1998), and the Honkaku Mystery Award (2012). In 2013 she received the Japan Mystery Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Sunny Moraine is a humanoid creature of average height, luminosity, and inertial mass. They’re also a doctoral student in sociology and a writer-like object who focuses primarily on various flavors of speculative fiction, usually with a decidedly queer bent. They spend most of their days using writing to distract from academics, except for the occasions when the two collide. They live just outside Washington DC with a husband and two cats, which is a poor replacement for their home dimension, which is positively full of cats and also chocolate and very bad TV.
Ng Yi Sheng is a Singaporean gay writer. He has published a collection of his poems entitled, last boy, which won the Singapore Literature Prize, and a documentary book on gay, lesbian and bisexual Singaporeans called SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century in 2006.
Chinelo Onwualu is editor and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African speculative fiction. Her writing has appeared in several places, including Strange Horizons, The Kalahari Review, Brittle Paper, and Ideomancer. She has been longlisted for the British Science Fiction Awards, the Nommo Awards, and the Short Story Day Africa Award. Find her on her website at: www.chineloonwualu.me or follow her on Twitter @chineloonwualu.
Nene Ormes was born and lives in the southern part of Sweden where she writes about her hometown, Malmö, in all manner of ways. She spends her days in a genre bookshop and specialises in pairing the right reader with the right sf/f book. She also works for Statens Kulturråd, reading books for children and teenagers. It’s two really good jobs if you can get them. Before submerging herself in books, she was an archaeologist and a tour guide in Egypt, and in her spare time she swims synchro and hangs out with her puppy, Eevee.
Sanem Ozdural was born in Turkey and spent her childhood in England. In 1989 she made her way to the US, where she studied economics at Princeton University. She moved to New Orleans after graduating from Boston University law school, where she practiced as a prosecutor and civil litigator and spent seven wonderful years living in the French Quarter. In 2004 she migrated from New Orleans to New York, where she practiced law, and from thence to Istanbul, Turkey in 2013 to teach international business law at Koc University. She moved back to New Orleans 2016, where she practices law and loves living in the French Quarter.
Pavel Renčín entered the Czech literary scene as an original, disruptive influence. He debuted with his short story, “The Creator,” in 1999 and then won several literary contests. Since then, his name comes up regularly in the best speculative fiction anthologies. Most of his work is in the genres of urban fantasy, magical realism, and horror. His first novel, Nepohádka (No Fairy Tale), was published in 2004. His second, Jméno korábu (The Name of the Vessel), in 2007. A year later, he finished Labyrint (The Labyrinth), one of the first online novels in the Czech Republic written alongside the readers (published in print in 2010) and published the first part of his Městské války (Clash of the Cities) trilogy, which was nominated for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror award and won the Aeronautilus award for the best book of the year. Parts two and three were published in 2009 and 2011, respectively. A collection of Renčín’s best short fiction, Beton, kosti a sny (Concrete, Bones and Dreams) was published in 2009. His most recent and most successful book is a horror novel set in Böhmerwald, Vězněná (Imprisoned). It was published in 2015 and received the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror award for the best Czech or Slovak spekulative fiction book.
Rebecca Roanhorse is an Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo/African-American writer and a VONA workshop alum. She is also a lawyer and Yale grad. She lives in northern New Mexico with her daughter, husband, and pug. Her debut novel, Trail of Lightning, is slated for publication with Saga Press (Simon & Schuster) summer 2018. Her recent nonfiction work can be found in the upcoming Invisible 3, and her article, “Decolonizing Science Fiction and Imagining Futures: An Indigenous Futurisms Roundtable,” can be found in Strange Horizons. Find her on Twitter @roanhorseBex.
Yoav Rosen is the editor of the Classics section and Audio Stories section in The Short Story Project. He is a literary critic in Haaretz’s literary supplement, Sfarim, and held creative writing workshops for exceptional youth in Matan-Arts, among others. His translations into Hebrew include Toni Morrison’s “The Dancing Mind” and James Baldwin’s “The Rockpile.” His short stories have been published in various anthologies and literary magazines, including Mita’am, Alaxon, Keshet Hahadasha, Masmerim, and in Haaretz’s annual short story contest. Copy and Paste (Afik), his first collection of short stories, won the Ministry of Culture Prize for New Authors in 2014. In 2016, Copy and Paste was chosen by The National Library in Israel as one of ten outstanding debuts published in the past year.
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy is the author of two chapbooks of weird fiction from Dunhams Manor Press—Weird Tales of a Bangalorean (2015) and the upcoming, A Volume of Sleep. He is also the bass guitarist and primary composer of the doom metal band, Djinn and Miskatonic. He lives in Bangalore, India, with his wife and an ever-growing horde of cats and dogs.
Nisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist and Tiptree Honor novel, Everfair, and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection, Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, the standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Her stories have appeared in Analog and Asimov’s magazines and many others. With Bill Campbell she co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Shawl is a Clarion West board member and a founder of the Carl Brandon Society.
Naru Dames Sundar writes speculative fiction and poetry. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, PodCastle, and Nature Magazine. He was a recipient of the 2016 Prix Aurora for his poem “Origami Crane/Light-Defying Spaceship.” You can find him online at www.shardofstar.info and on twitter as @naru_sundar.
Jeremy Szal was born in 1995 in the outback of Australia and was raised by wild dingoes. His speculative fiction has appeared in Nature, Abyss & Apex, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and The Drabblecast and has been translated into multiple languages. He is the fiction editor for Hugo-winning podcast StarShipSofa and holds a rather useless BA in Creative Writing and Film Studies. He carves out a living in Sydney, Australia, where he drinks too much craft beer and watches too many films. Find him at http://jeremyszal.com/ or @JeremySzal
Bogi Takács (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person and a resident alien in the United States. E writes, edits, and reviews speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. You can find eir work in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Uncanny, among other places. Bogi lives in Kansas with eir cheerful neuroatypical family. You can find Bogi online at http://www.prezzey.net or read eir book reviews at http://www.bogireadstheworld.com, or eir QUILTBAG space opera web-serial at http://www.iwunen.net. Bogi is @bogiperson on Twitter, Instagram, and Patreon.
K. A. Teryna is an award-winning author and illustrator. A number of her stories have been published in the Russian SF magazines, Esli, Mir Fantastiki, and others since 2008. An English translation of her story “Black Hole Heart” appeared at Apex Magazine. She lives in Moscow.
Natalia Theodoridou is a media & cultural studies scholar and a writer of strange stories. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere. She is also the dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers (@AdriftPM), with whom she experiments with interactive fiction and immersive, digital performance. Originally from Greece, she now lives in Devon, UK. For more, see her website, www.natalia-theodoridou.com, or follow @natalia_theodor on Twitter.
Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, August 2016), named on the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Longlist, Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct Press, January 2011), and the editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies. Read her new essay in the collection, Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Twelfth Planet Press, September 2017) and her short stories and poems in Sycorax’s Daughters (March 2017), Apex Magazine Issue 95 (April 2017), Stories for Chip, Revise the Psalm, The Moment of Change, Mojo: Conjure Stories, An Alphabet of Embers, Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Jalada, So Long Been Dreaming, Memphis Noir, Harvard’s Transition, and Mojo Rising: Contemporary Writers (September 2017). Find her @blackpotmojo or visit her publisher’s website.
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee, A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011), and of the critically-acclaimed and Seiun Award nominated The Violent Century (2013). His latest novel is the Campbell Award winning and Locus and Clarke Award nominated Central Station (2016). He is the author of many other novels, novellas, and short stories.
Sabrina Vourvoulias is the author of Ink, a novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala’s armed internal conflict and of the Latinx experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012. Her short stories have appeared at Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, and in a number of anthologies, including Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History (Fox and Older, eds.), The Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015 (Twelfth Planet Press; Krasnostein and Rios, eds.), and Latino/a Rising (Wings Press; Goodwin, ed.) in 2017. She is also freelance op-ed columnist whose commentaries have appeared at Philly.com, Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia Magazine, City and State Pennsylvania, and The Guardian US, among others. Follow her on Twitter @followthelede. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, daughter and a dog who rules the household.
Subodhana Wijeyeratne was born in London, UK, and has lived in the Soviet Union/Russia, Sri Lanka, Japan, and the United States. When he’s not researching the history of rocketry in Japan at Harvard University, he’s reading good literature, or trying to make it to the few countries within the reach of a poor graduate student. He has been writing science fiction for over ten years and had work appear in LampLight, The Colored Lens, Expanded Horizons, and Liquid Imagination. You can find his blog at suboworld.net
Carlos Yushimito has published the story collections, El mago (The Wizard, 2004), Las islas (The Islands, 2006), Lecciones para un niño que llega tarde (Lessons for a Child Who Arrives Late, 2011) and Los bosques tienen sus propias puertas (Forests Have Their Own Doors, 2013). In 2008, he was chosen as one of the best young writers in Latin America by Casa de las Americas and Centro Onelio Cardoso from Cuba; and in 2010 by Granta as one of the best Spanish language authors under the age of 35. He earned his PhD in Hispanic Studies at Brown University and is currently a visiting professor at the University of California, Riverside.