Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History

by Tananarive Due

  Shanaé Brown is a writer and blogger in NYC. This is her first published story and she’s currently hard at work on her first novel, Naima. She’s represented by Sara Camilli. You can find her most days on her blog,

  becauseimwrite.net, or on Twitter @muzeness.

  Nicolette Barischoff‘s greatest achievement, prior to being published in this awesome anthology, is graduating magna cum laude from the Literature / Writing and Religious Studies programs at the University of California, San Diego (0.001 away from summa, goddamnit!). She is as skilled in the art of love as she is in the art of storytelling. Her smile powers the entire state of California. She lives with her husband and a multitude of faeries in a shoebox under the stairs. Call her Nicci. (Yes, her husband wrote this).

  Lisa Bolekaja is a recent graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Workshop and was named an Octavia E. Butler Scholar by the Carl Brandon Society. She is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, and an active member of both the Black Science Fiction Society and the Organization of Black Screenwriters. Her first published story, “The Saltwater African,” appeared in Bloodchildren: Stories bythe Octavia E. Butler Scholars, edited by Nisi Shawl. She’s currently adapting her horror screenplay Skin into a short story for wayward children.

  Victor LaValle is the author of one story collection and three novels. His most recent novel, The Devil in Silver, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2012. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He teaches creative writing in Columbia University’s MFA program.

  Sabrina Vourvoulias is the author of Ink (Crossed Genres, 2012), a speculative novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala’s armed internal conflict, and of the Latin@ experience in the United States. It was named to Latinidad’s Best Books of 2012. Her short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons; the anthologies Fat Girl in a Strange Land, Menial: Skilled Labor in Science Fiction, and Crossed Genres Year Two; and forthcoming in GUD magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Graham House Review, Dappled Things, La Bloga’s Floricanto, Poets Respond to SB 1070, and Cabinet des Fées, and forthcoming in Bull Spec. Sabrina is also the managing editor of Al Día News in Philadelphia, and was the editor of Al Día’s book 200 Years of Latino History in Philadelphia (Temple University Press, 2012).

  For bibliographies and author notes on the stories, settings, and history in Long Hidden, visit longhidden.com.

  Editor Biographies

  Rose Fox is a compulsive magazine editor with a lifelong love of genre fiction. Credits include: reviews editor for Publishers Weekly, co-host of Publishers Weekly Radio, editor-at-large for #24MAG, and dissociative editor of the Annals of Improbable Research. They also provide freelance manuscript editing services to unpublished authors. In a few occasional moments of spare time, they help to run Readercon, an annual conference on speculative literature. Rose lives in Brooklyn, in a cozy apartment full of loving family, opinionated cats, and a great many books. You can find Rose on Twitter @rosefox or at copymancer.com.

  Rose dedicates Long Hidden “to my parents, who gave me books edited by Terry Carr and Judith Merril, and smiled indulgently when I said that when I grew up I wanted to make anthologies.”

  Daniel José Older is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and composer. Salsa Nocturna, Daniel’s debut ghost noir collection, was hailed as “striking and original” by Publishers Weekly. He facilitates workshops on storytelling, music, and anti-oppression organizing at public schools, community organizations, and universities and worked for ten years as a New York City paramedic. His short stories and essays have appeared in Lightspeed, Salon, The New Haven Review, Tor.com, PANK, Strange Horizons, and Crossed Genres among other publications. His forthcoming urban fantasy novel The Half Resurrection Blues, the first book of the Bone Street Rumba series, will be released by Penguin’s Roc imprint and as an audio book on Audible.com. You can find his thoughts on writing, read his ridiculous ambulance adventures, and hear music by his band, Ghost Star, at ghoststar.net and on Twitter: @djolder.

  Daniel dedicates Long Hidden to Sheree Renée Thomas, who lit the way.