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New York Times and USA Today bestseller Sarah MacLean is the author of historical romance novels that have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. MacLean is a romance columnist and cohost of weekly romance novel podcast Fated Mates, and her work in support of romance and the women who read it earned her a place on Jezebel.com’s “Sheroes” list and led Entertainment Weekly to call her “the elegantly fuming, utterly intoxicating queen of historical romance.” She is a graduate of Smith College and Harvard University. She lives in New York City. Find her at sarahmaclean.net or fatedmates.net.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the bestselling author of the novels Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, Certain Dark Things, Untamed Shore, and a bunch of other books. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award–winning She Walks in Shadows (aka Cthulhu’s Daughters).
Jessica Plummer has worked in book marketing since 2008 and is a contributing editor at Book Riot. She attended Barnard College and is an avid historian of both superhero comics and New York City, where she lives with her pet turtle. When not marketing books, writing about books, or reading books, she’s writing them (young adult fantasy, to be specific), or else probably running or baking. She firmly believes every movie should be a musical. “Flat White” is her first published fiction. You can find her on Twitter at @Jess_Plummer.
Anthony Rapp has been acting professionally since he was nine years old, but he has also been writing (and avidly reading) stories for even longer. He won a Young Authors Award when he was eight, and in 2006 he became a New York Times bestseller with his memoir, Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent. He lives in NYC with his fiancé, Ken Ithiphol, and their cats Spike, Ferdinand, and Isabella. He’s thrilled to have his work included here and dedicates his story to the memory of his late friend Ben Wackerman.
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from the Anishinaabe community of Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. He has written three fiction titles, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in 2018 and became a Canadian bestseller. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in 2002 and spent the bulk of his news and current affairs career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in major cities across Canada. He left CBC in 2020 to focus on creative writing. He lives in Sudbury, Ontario, with his wife and two sons.
Multiple-award-winning author, editor, and journalist Nisi Shawl is best known for their fiction dealing with gender, race, and colonialism, including the 2016 Nebula Awards finalist novel Everfair. They’re the coauthor of a classic text on inclusivity, Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, and they teach Writing the Other–related courses online and in person. Shawl’s story collection Filter House is a cowinner of the James Tiptree Jr./Otherwise Award. Additional awards include the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, the Locus Award, and the inaugural Ignyte Award from FIYAH magazine. Additional publications include the collections Something More and More, A Primer to Nisi Shawl, and Talk Like a Man.
Shawl edited and coedited The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 5: Writing and Racial Identity; Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars; Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler; Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; and New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color. They have contributed to The Seattle Times, the Seattle Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, and Ms. Magazine. They live in Seattle, near a large but shallow lake with an island in the middle. Both Shawl and their cat like to watch birds, but for very different reasons.
Alex Segura is an acclaimed writer of novels, comic books, and podcasts. He is the author of the Star Wars novel Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Pete Fernandez Mystery series (including Anthony Award–nominated crime novels Dangerous Ends, Blackout, and Miami Midnight), and the upcoming Secret Identity. He has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black Ghost, the young adult music series the Archies, and the “Archie Meets” collection of crossovers, featuring real-life cameos from the Ramones, the B-52s, and more. He is also the cocreator/cowriter of the Lethal Lit crime/YA podcast from iHeartRadio, which was named one of the best podcasts of 2018 by the New York Times. By day he is copresident of Archie Comics. A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife and children.
S. Zainab Williams is the managing editor of Book Riot, a cohost of the SFF Yeah! podcast, and a writer and cartoonist. Her work can be found in (Don’t) Call Me Crazy and on The Drabblecast, among other places. Originally from Los Angeles (Eagle Rock, represent), Williams currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her demonic cat.
Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of The Unquiet Dead. The Unquiet Dead was the winner of the Barry Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, and the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best First Novel; it was also a 2016 Macavity Award finalist. The Bloodprint, Khan’s fantasy debut, was hailed as “one of the year’s finest fantasy debuts.” The Bloodprint is book one of the Khorasan Archives, a four-book epic fantasy series, with The Bladebone, the final installment, published in 2020. Khan holds a PhD in international human rights law from Osgoode Hall Law School. She completed her LLB and LLM at the University of Ottawa and her BA at the University of Toronto. She practiced immigration law in Toronto and has taught international human rights law at Northwestern University, as well as human rights and business law at York University. She currently lives in Colorado with her husband.
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