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Aliette de Bodard’s short stories have garnered her two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award, and a British Science Fiction Association Award. She is the author of The House of Shattered Wings, a novel set in a turn-of-the-century Paris devastated by a magical war, which won the 2015 British Science Fiction Association Award, and its sequel The House of Binding Thorns, from Roc (U.S.) and Gollancz (UK and Commonwealth). She lives in Paris.
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Brooke Bolander attended the University of Leicester studying History and Archaeology. Her stories have been featured in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and various other fine purveyors of the fantastic. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, the Theodore Sturgeon, and the World Fantasy awards. Her debut book with Tor.com Publishing, The Only Harmless Great Thing, is scheduled for a 2018 release.
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Three of Nadia Bulkin’s stories have been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her stories have been included in volumes of The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and in venues such as ChiZine, Fantasy, and The Dark. Bulkin’s debut collection, She Said Destroy, was recently released by Word Horde. Bulkin has two political science degrees and lives in Washington, DC.
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Rachel Caine is the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 internationally bestselling author of more than forty-five novels. She loves reading, writing, and mild amounts of arithmetic when required, but has a special place in her heart for history, music, and science. You’ll find those themes in many of her works.
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Amal El-Mohtar received the Hugo Award for the story included herein, as well as her second Locus Award. She has been a Nebula Award finalist for her short fiction, and won the Rhysling Award for poetry three times. El-Mohtar is the author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey. She contributes criticism to NPR Books and the LA Times. She lives in Ottawa with her spouse and two cats.
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Former film critic turned author Gemma Files, has also been a teacher, screenwriter, and sex shop floor attendant. Her latest book, Experimental Film (ChiZine Publications), won both the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2015 Sunburst Award for Best Adult Novel. She has previously published a weird Western trilogy (the Hexslinger series), a story-cycle (We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven), two collections of short fiction, and two chapbooks of speculative poetry.
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Jeffrey Ford is a six-time World Fantasy Award recipient, four-time Shirley Jackson Award winner, and has earned Nebula and Edgar Allan Poe awards as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. He is the author of eight novels and five story collections. The most recent collection, A Natural History of Hell, was published in 2016 by Small Beer Press. His latest book is novella The Twilight Pariah from Tor.com. He lives in Ohio and currently teaches part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Cate Gardner’s stories have appeared in Black Static, The Dark, Fantasy, Shimmer, Postscripts, and many other wonderful places. Her novella, The Bureau of Them, was nominated for a British Fantasy Award, as was her short story “When the Moon Man Knocks.”
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Max Gladstone has been nominated twice for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award. The Ruin of Angels, the sixth novel in his Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence was published by Tor in September 2017. His game Choice of the Deathless was nominated for a XYZZY Award. Gladstone’s short fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in Uncanny Magazine. His most recent project is urban fantasy serial Bookburners, available in ebook and audio from Serial Box, and in print from Saga Press.
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Lisa L. Hannett has had over sixty-five short stories appear in venues including Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Weird Tales, Apex, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing. She has won four Aurealis Awards, including Best Collection for her first book, Bluegrass Symphony, which was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Her first novel, Lament for the Afterlife, was published by CZP in 2015.
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Brian Hodge is a prolific writer in a number of genres and subgenres, as well as an avid connoisseur of music. The author of eleven novels, over 120 short stories, novelettes, and novellas—many gathered in five collections—he is currently writing more of everything. He lives along the Colorado Front Range with his soulmate, Doli, and trains there in Krav Maga and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
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Kat Howard lives in New Hampshire. Her short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in “best-of” volumes and performed on NPR. Her debut novel, Roses and Rot, was named one of the best science fiction/fantasy/horror books of the summer of 2016 by Publishers Weekly. Her second novel, An Unkindness of Magicians, was released in September 2017 by Saga Press, who are also publishing her short fiction collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, in early 2018.
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In 2016, N. K. Jemisin became the first black person to win the Best Novel Hugo with The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book. In 2017, with its sequel, The Obelisk Gate, she became the first person in twenty-five years to win the award two years in a row. Jemisin won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and has been nominated multiple times for World Fantasy, Nebula, Crawford, and Tiptree awards. Her latest novel, The Stone Sky, is the final title in The Broken Earth trilogy. She writes a New York Times science fiction and fantasy book review column.
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Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels—the most recent is Mongrels (HarperCollins)—and six story collections. His latest book, Mapping the Interior, was published in June by Tor.com. His comic book My Hero, is now available from Hex Publishers. Jones lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.
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Cassandra Khaw is a London-based writer with roots buried deep in Southeast Asia. Her 2016 Tor.com hard-boiled horror novella, Hammers on Bone, was a finalist for the British Fantasy and Locus awards. Another novella set in the same world, A Song for Quiet, was published earlier this year. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, The Dark, Fireside Fiction, Lackington’s, Nature, Shimmer, Uncanny, and other venues.
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World Fantasy Award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of numerous comic books and thirteen novels, including Silk, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds, The Red Tree, and The Drowning Girl. She has authored more than two hundred works of short fiction, much of which has been collected in fifteen volumes. Kiernan’s most recent long work is Agents of Dreamland (Tor.com). Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was raised and trained as a vertebrate paleontologist in the southeastern United States. She currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Carrie Laben’s work has appeared in such venues as Indiana Review, Clarkesworld, Apex, Birding, and Fantasy: The Best of the Year. It has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. She grew up in western New York, received her MFA from the University of Montana, and now lives in Queens.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Marc Laidlaw published dozens of short stories and half a dozen novels, including the International Horror Guild Award-winning The 37th Mandala. In 1997, he joined Valve Software and helped create the Half-Life franchise, then went on as lead writer for the competitive online game, Dota 2. In 2016, he retired from Valve and is slowly easing back into writing fiction.
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Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels—The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling—and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer comic book Victor LaValle’s Destroyer. LaValle has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, and an American Book Award. Raised in Queens, New York, he now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.
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Alison Littlewood’s latest novel, The Hidden People, is set in a superstitious Victorian village. Her other books include A Cold Season, a Richard and Judy Book Club selection; Path of Needles, a dark blend of fairy tales and crime fiction; and The Unquiet House, a ghost story set in the Yorkshire countryside. Alison’s short stories have been selected for several “year’s best” anthologies and she won the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction. She lives in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls in Yorkshire, England.
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Livia Llewellyn’s fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Subterranean, Apex, Postscripts, Nightmare, as well as numerous anthologies. Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors (Lethe Press) received a 2011 Shirley Jackson Award nomination for Best Collection, “Omphalos” received a 2011 SJA for Best Novelette, and “Furnace” received a 2013 SJA nomination for Best Short Fiction. Her second collection, Furnace, was published in 2016 by Word Horde Press.
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Seanan McGuire received a Hugo Award in 2017 for novella Every Heart a Doorway. In the last eight years, the New York Times-bestselling author (and her science-fiction thriller-writer pseudonym Mira Grant) has published more than two dozen novels and over seventy-five short stories. Her most recent novels are the eleventh book in her Hugo-nominated October Daye series, The Brightest Fell, and Boneyard, a weird Western. Winner of the 2010 Campbell Award for Best New Writer, McGuire is a native Californian who now lives in Washington State.
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Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press). Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, NPR, Guernica, Electric Literature, and several “year’s best” anthologies. Her short story “The Husband Stitch” was nominated for the Shirley Jackson and Nebula awards, awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and longlisted for the Tiptree Award. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Machado lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
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Naomi Novik is the acclaimed and bestselling author of the nine-volume Temeraire series, begun with His Majesty’s Dragon. Novik was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of 2006. She also won the 2007 Compton Crook Award. Her latest novel, Uprooted, is a fantasy inspired by stories of Baba Yaga and the Polish fairy tales and folklore of her childhood. Naomi lives in New York City with her husband and six computers.
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An (pronounced “On”) Owomoyela is a neutrois author with a background in web development, linguistics, and weaving chain maille out of stainless steel fencing wire. Owomoyela’s fiction has appeared in venues including Apex, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and a handful of “year’s bests” anthologies.
Priya Sharma’s fiction has appeared in Albedo One, Black Static, Interzone, Tor.com, and several anthologies. Her work is frequently selected for various “year’s best” volumes, and also appeared on Locus Recommended Reading Lists. Her story, “Fabulous Beasts” was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. A collection of her work will be available from Undertow Publications in 2018.
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Author, screenwriter, and musician John Shirley is the author of more than forty novels including the classic cyberpunk Song Called Youth trilogy; horror novels Cellars, Wetbones, and Demons; and the Western historical Wyatt in Wichita. Many of his numerous shorter works have been gathered in nine collections, the most recent of which is Lovecraft Alive! A Collection of Lovecraftian Stories (Hippocampus Press, 2016). He resides in Washington State near Portland, Oregon, where he performs and records with his band, the Screaming Geezers.
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Angela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil (2016) and Corpselight (2017), as well as eight short story collections. A third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, and six Aurealis Awards. Short stories have appeared in various Australian, UK and U.S. “best of” anthologies. Slatter earned an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, and, in 2016, was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth.
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Rachel Swirsky holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. 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, California, with five cats, which, she would like to inform you, is an overwhelming number of cats.
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Steve Rasnic Tem’s latest novel UBO (Solaris) is a dark science fictional tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. A handbook on writing, Yours To Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife Melanie, is now available from Apex Books. He is a past winner of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards.
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Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is the winner of the Sturgeon, Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, and Hugo Awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
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Michael Wehunt’s short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, The Dark, Shadows and Tall Trees, Unlikely Stories, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, and elsewhere. His debut collection, Greener Pastures (Apex), was shortlisted for the Crawford Award and a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Fran Wilde’s work includes the Andre Norton- and Compton Crook Award-winning and Nebula-nominated novel Updraft, and its sequels Cloudbound and Horizon (Tor). Her short stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and more. Wilde’s Nebula-nominated novelette, The Jewel and Her Lapidary, is available from Tor.com. She also writes nonfiction for publications including the Washington Post, Tor.com, Clarkesworld, io9, and GeekMom.com.
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Alyssa Wong lives in Chapel Hill, NC. Her stories have won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and the Locus Award for Best Novelette. She was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others.
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A. C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Shimmer, Tor.com, The Dark, and Apex, among other places. Her collections, The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again and The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories, are both published by Lethe Press. In addition to her fiction, she co-edits Unlikely Story, and contributes a monthly review column to Apex.
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Isabel Yap writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she has also lived in California, Tokyo, and London. Her writing has appeared in Apex, Tor.com, Interfictions Online, Nightmare, Shimmer, Uncanny, and other publications. Hurricane Heels, her short story series about magical girls, was published in 2016 by Booksmugglers Publishing.
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Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency physician and author. She writes medical thrillers and mysteries as Melissa Yi. Yi’s latest crime novel, Human Remains, is the fifth in her Dr. Hope Sze Medical Mystery series. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sleuth, Nature, Tesseracts 16, Ricepaper, Crossed Genres, and other venues. She also writes medical nonfiction and humor. In her spare time, Yuan-Innes chases after two small children and one large Rottweiler.
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E. Lily Yu received the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short stories—which have appeared in places such as Hazlitt, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Uncanny, 2017 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year—have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy awards.