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Elizabeth Bear is an author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres.

Kelly Robson is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer.Robson received the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for her novelette "A Human Stain." She was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2016 for "Waters of Versailles" and in 2019 for "Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach." She received the 2016 Prix Aurora Award for "Waters of Versailles."

Paul Douglas Cornell is a writer and screenwriter. He’s also co-host of Hammer House of Podcast.Cornell has written episodes of "Elementary," "Doctor Who," "Primeval," and "Robin Hood," as well as his own children’s show, "Wavelength." He has also written for comics, his series "I Walk With Monsters" for The Vault, "The Modern Frankenstein" for Magma, "Saucer Country" for Vertigo, and "This Damned Band" for Dark Horse. He has also written for Marvel and DC.Cornell's work has appeared in Interzone, StarShipSofa, Uncanny Magazine, and Tor.com, as well as in anthologies. He has published multiple Dr. Who novels, as well as novels in other series.

Molly Tanzer is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction writer, novelist, and social worker.

Yoon Ha Lee is a writer of science fiction and fantasy fiction. He is known for his "Machineries of Empire" space opera novels.Lee's stories have appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Ideomancer, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed, and have been collected in anthologies. His first novel, "Ninefox Gambit," was published in 2016 and received the 2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel. He has published six novels and four collections of short fiction.

Sarah Gailey is the Hugo award-winning best-selling author.

Neil Clarke is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor and publisher. He is the owner of Wyrm Publishing and editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Forever Magazine, and several anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series for Night Shade Books.

Nisi Shawl is a writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories. In addition to writing, they teach about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors.Shawl's short stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, the Infinite Matrix, Strange Horizons, and Semiotext(e). Their first collection, "Filter House," was published in 2008, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Their first novel, "Everfair," was published in 2016 and was nominated for a Nebula Award.With with Cynthia Ward, Shawl co-authored the creative-writing handbook "Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction." The book is derived from the authors' workshop of the same name, in which participants explore techniques to help them write credible characters outside their own cultural experience. It received special mention for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.

Fran Wilde is a science fiction and fantasy fiction author.Wilde's work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Nature Magazine. Her first novel, "Updraft," was published in 2015.Wilde received a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Warren Wilson College, and a master's degree in information architecture and interaction design from the University of Baltimore.

Alyxandra Margaret Dellamonica is writer of science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history fiction. Currently, they are a Communications Officer at the University of Toronto.Dellamonica has published over forty short stories in the field since the 1980s in Crank!, Terminal Fright, Tomorrow, Realms of Fantasy, Tesseracts, Asimov's Science Fiction, and in anthologies. Their first book, "Indigo Springs," was published in 2009. They also review science fiction novels and write articles about publishing for science fiction related websites like Clarkesworld and for tor.com.

Laird Samuel Barron is an author and poet, mostly of horror, noir, and dark fantasy fiction.In Alaska, Barron raced the Iditarod three times in the 1990s and worked as a fisherman on the Bering Sea. He began writing professionally in 1994. He was the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review.He has stated his affection for pulp fiction, westerns, and noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion. Barron has referred to the Bible and the Necronomicon as "the greatest horror stories ever told."[6]Barron's fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCI FICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as in numerous year's best anthologies.Barron received the 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards for his collections "The Imago Sequence and Other Stories" and "Occultation and Other Stories." His first novel, "The Light is the Darkness," was published in 2011.

Michael R. Underwood is an author, podcaster, and publishing professional. His books include space opera Annihilation Aria, the Ree Reyes Geekomancy books, the Genrenauts series, and Born to the Blade (written with Malka Older, Cassandra Khaw, and Marie Brennan). He’s been a bookseller, sales representative, and the North American Sales & Marketing Manager for Angry Robot Books. He is also a co-host of the actual play show "Speculate!" and a guest host on "The Skiffy and Fanty Show."Mike lives in Baltimore with his wife, their dog, and an ever-growing library. He also loves geeking out with games and making pizzas from scratch.

S. B. Divya is the pen name of Divya Srinivasan Breed, who writes speculative fiction.

Julia Rios is a writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator. Currently, they are the Editor and Publisher of "Mermaids Monthly" magazine. They host the podcast "OMG Julia!"Rios has hosted a number of podcasts including "Outer Alliance" and "The Skiffy and Fanty Show." They have also been an editor for several of the the magazines Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, and Fireside Magazine. They have narrated for "PodCastle" and "Pseudopod." They are a co-founder of Fuente Collective.Rios's work has appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, and Goblin Fruit.

Cat Rambo is a writer and editor, largely of science fiction and fantasy. She was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine from 2007 to 2011.Rambo's stories have appeared in Asimov's, Clarkesworld Magazine and Tor.com. In 2012, her story "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" was a Nebula Award finalist. Her first novel, "Beasts of Tabat," was published in 2015. She also writes articles about gaming, and has done technical writing for Microsoft and Security Dynamics.Rambo served two two-year terms as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America form following one year as Vice President.Rambo graduated from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

Ann Leckie is a science fiction and fantasy writer.Leckie's work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, Forever, Helix, Realms of Fantasy, Lightspeed, PodCastle, and in anthologies. Her first novel, "Ancillary Justice," was published in 2013 and won the 2014 Hugo Award for "Best Novel," the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the BSFA Award.

"Ferrett Steinmetz" is the pen name of author William Steinmetz, who writes science fiction and urban fantasy fiction.Steinmetz's stories have appeared in dozens of magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Apex Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Drabblecast, Dragons, Escape Pod, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, PodCastle, Pseudopod, Uncanny Magazine, and have been collected in anthologies. His first novel, "Flex," was published in2015.

Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction.

Damien Angelica Walters is a horror fiction and dark science fiction author. Until the magazine’s closing in 2013, she was an Associate Editor of Electric Velocipede.Walters's stories have appeared in Murky Depths, Black Static, Fireside, Stupefying Stories, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Apex Magazine, and Lightspeed, and in several anthologies. Her first book, "Ink," was published in 2012. She has published three novels and two collections.