CONTRIBUTORS

 

Celeste Rita Baker is a Virgin Islander who currently resides in Harlem. She has published short stories in The Caribbean Writer, Calabash, Margin’s Magical Realism, Scarab and most recently Moko Magazine as well as Abyss & Apex Magazine.

 

William Boyle is from Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Gravesend, Death Don’t Have No Mercy, Everything is Broken, The Lonely Witness, and A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

 

Jesse Bullington is the author of three weird historical novels: The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Enterprise of Death, and The Folly of the World. Under the pen name Alex Marshall he recently completed the Crimson Empire trilogy; the first book, A Crown for Cold Silver, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. He’s also the editor of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated Letters to Lovecraft, and co-editor (with Molly Tanzer) of Swords v. Cthulhu. His short fiction, reviews, and articles have appeared in such diverse publications as the LA Review of Books, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 13, and VICE.

 

Indrapramit Das (aka Indra Das) is a writer and editor from Kolkata, India. He is a Lambda Literary Award-winner for his debut novel The Devourers, and has been a finalist for the Crawford, Tiptree and Shirley Jackson Awards. His short fiction has appeared in publications including Tor.com, Clarkesworld and Asimov’s, and has been widely anthologized. He is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a grateful graduate of Clarion West 2012. He has lived in India, the United States, and Canada, where he completed his MFA at the University of British Columbia.

 

Cecilia Ekbäck was born in Sweden in a northern fishing town. Her parents come from Lapland. After university she specialised in marketing and worked for a multinational for twenty years with postings in the UK, Russia, Germany, France, Portugal and the Middle East. In 2010, she finished Royal Holloway’s Master in Creative Writing. She now lives in Canmore, ‘returning home’ to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. Her first novel, Wolf Winter, was published in 2015. In the Month of the Midnight Sun, her second novel, was published in 2016. She is currently at work on her third.

 

S. L. Grey is a collaboration between Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg, responsible for five novels so far, including The Mall and The Apartment. Based in the Welsh borderlands, Sarah is a novelist and screenwriter and die-hard zombie fanatic. Louis is a Johannesburg-bred author and editor currently living in England.

 

Dale, Sam, and Lauren occasionally combine forces, like a giant transforming super robot or mutating multi-limbed horror, to write things weirder than any of them could have come up with on their own. In their own separate lives, Dale Halvorsen is an award-winning illustrator, cover designer and co-writer of horror comic, Survivors’ Club, Sam Beckbessinger is co-founder of a Cape Town fintech company and author of the essential How To Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grownup, and Lauren Beukes is the award-winning author of The Shining Girls, Zoo City and Broken Monsters and also a co-writer on Survivors’ Club.

 

Omar Robert Hamilton is a filmmaker and writer. His debut novel, The City Always Wins chronicles the rise and fall of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

 

Frances Hardinge was brought up in a sequence of small, sinister English villages, and spent a number of formative years living in a Gothic-looking, mouse-infested hilltop house in Kent. She studied English Language and Literature at Oxford, fell in love with the city’s crazed archaic beauty, and lived there for many years.

 

Will Hill is an author and screenwriter. His most recent novel, After The Fire, won the YA Book Prize in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He lives in London.

 

Jeffrey Alan Love is an artist and writer. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist, he is the author of Notes from the Shadowed City and The Thousand Demon Tree.

 

Kuzhali Manickavel’s collections Things We Found During the Autopsy, Insects Are Just like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings and echapbook Eating Sugar, Telling Lies are available from Blaft Publications, Chennai. Her work has also appeared in Granta, Strange Horizons, Agni, Subtropics, Michigan Quarterly Review and DIAGRAM.

 

China Miéville is the author of various works of fiction and non-fiction, including The City & the City, October, The Census Taker, and London’s Overthrow.

 

Leah Moore is an author, columnist, and digital comics evangelist. Leah’s comic writing career began in 2002 with stories for America’s Best Comics. More recently she has written scripts for Dynamite Entertainment (Gail Simone’s Swords of Sorrow, Red Sonja), Heavy Metal Magazine, and Shelly Bond’s Black Crown Publishing (Femme Magnifique, Black Crown Quarterly). She has also written columns and articles for The Big Issue, Lifetime TV online, and Comic Heroes Magazine.

 

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Signal to Noise was named a best book of 2015 by BookRiot, Tor.com, Barnes & Noble, Buzzfeed, io9, and more. Her Mexican vampire novel, Certain Dark Things, was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2016, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 for 2016, a VOYA “Perfect Ten,” and a finalist for multiple awards. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a Cthulhu’s Daughters).

 

Yukimi Ogawa lives in a small town in Tokyo where she writes in English but never speaks the language. She still wonders why it works that way. Her stories can be found in such places as Clarkesworld, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons.

 

Karen Onojaife is a novelist and short story writer. Her writing has featured in publications such as Mslexia, Buzzfeed, Callaloo, Sable Literary Magazine and most recently, Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories. Her work has previously been listed for the Bridport Short Story, Fish Short Story, and Mslexia Short Story competitions. Her novel, Borrowed Light, won the Reader’s Choice award in the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize 2012. She is a VONA/Voices fellow, recipient of a place on the Hedgebrook Writers in Residence program and currently is a fiction reader for the Callaloo journal.

 

Sally Partridge is an author of award-winning young-adult fiction novels and short stories. She was named one of Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans in 2011 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story prize in 2013. Her fifth novel, Mine, was published in 2018. Find her on Twitter @sapartridge

 

Maha Khan Phillips is a multiple award winning financial journalist and editor, and the author of The Curse of Mohenjodaro, Beautiful from this Angle, and The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby. She has a bachelor’s degree in Politics and International Relations and masters’ degrees in International Conflict Analysis and in Creative Writing. She grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, and currently lives in London.

 

Daniel Polansky lives in Los Angeles. He finds enumerating accomplishments gauche, but if you were really interested you could check out DanielPolansky.com

 

Amira Salah-Ahmed is a Cairo-based writer and journalist. She has covered Egypt’s news for local and international publications for more than a decade and is one of the co-founders of independent media company, Mada Masr. With a certain fluidity between journalism and creative writing, she began writing poetry in 2010. She has also co-authored a book (Tahrir Memoirs) with a group of writers and bloggers about the 18-day uprising, published in Arabic and Italian in 2012.

 

Sami Shah is a multi-award winning writer, comedian, broadcaster. His first novel Fire Boy was released in 2016, and is now available in South Asia as The Boy of Fire and Earth. Sami has written columns for national and international newspapers and magazines, short stories for anthologies, and documentaries for radio. He’s currently based in Melbourne.

 

Matt Suddain is a New Zealand-born writer and the author of two novels: Theatre of the Gods (2013) and Hunters & Collectors (2016). He lives in London.

 

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 Campbell Award winning and Locus and Clarke Award nominated Central Station (2016). His latest novels are the forthcoming Unholy Land (2018) and his first children’s novel, Candy (2018). He is the author of many other novels, novellas and short stories.

 

Genevieve Valentine has written novels, comics, and short fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and NPR.org.

 

Marina Warner writes fiction and cultural history. Her novels include The Lost Father (1988), INdigo (1992) and The Leto Bundle (2000), and she has published three collections of short stories, most recently Fly Away Home (2014). Her critical studies focus on myth and fairytale, in such books as Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (1982), From the Beast to the Blonde (1994), and Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (2011; winner of the National Book Critics Circle award, the Sheykh Zayed Prize and the Truman Capote award). She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, Professorial Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, a Fellow of the British Academy, and was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. In 2015, she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities, and in 2017 she was given a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction came out in January 2018 and Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists in Autumn 2018. She is currently working on the project www.storiesintransit.com, researching the concept of Sanctuary and writing an ‘unreliable memoir’ A Life Mislaid about her childhood in Egypt.

 

Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin are the editors of—collectively—over two dozen anthologies, including The Djinn Falls in Love. They live 6,549 miles apart.