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Sarah Grey’s poetry has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Liminality, Dreams & Nightmares, Eye to the Telescope, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in California, believes life is better on purple suede skates, and travels whenever the world’s not on fire. She can be found at www.sarahgrey.net.
Javier “Javi” Grillo-Marxuach is one of the Emmy Award-winning producers of Lost and Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and is currently Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series The Witcher. His work includes stints as writer/producer on From, Cowboy Bebop, Blood and Treasure, Raising Dion, The 100, Medium, Boomtown, and the original Charmed. An advocate of mentorship and education, Grillo-Marxuach and his family have granted scholarships for writers at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also co-host and co-creator of the Children of Tendu podcast, an educational series for aspiring television writers. Javi is Puerto Rican, his name is pronounced “HA-WEE-AIR GREE-JOE MARKS-WATCH.”
Simon Guerrier is the author of countless Doctor Who audio adventures, comics, and books, most recently The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who. His novella Fall Out was published by Abaddon Books in November 2015. With his brother Thomas, Simon produces documentaries for BBC Radio 3 and has made a number of award-winning short films.
Lesley Hart Gunn is the winner of the Fall 2022 F(r)iction Poetry Contest and has publications in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s Science Fiction, PseudoPod, Saros, Space and Time Magazine, Phantom Drift Journal, and others. She is originally from the lakes and lighthouses of Nova Scotia, Canada but currently lives in the mountains of Utah with her partner, three children, and two villainous cats.
A. J. Hackwith is a magpie of ink, bad ideas, and spite. She’s a queer writer of fantasy and science fiction in Seattle. A.J. is the author of two nonfiction books and writes sci-fi romance as Ada Harper. You can find her as @ajhackwith on Twitter and other dark corners of the internet.
Minal Hajratwala is the founder of the Unicorn Authors Club, a magical sanctuary where authors of color (and allies who really mean it!) finish our gorgeous, urgently needed books. Her books include the award-winning nonfiction epic Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents; a poetry collection, Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment; a travel guidebook, Moon Fiji; and a groundbreaking anthology, Out! Stories from the New Queer India.
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Gay Haldeman has managed SF Grandmaster Joe Haldeman’s career since it began in 1969. She’s taught Spanish and English as a Foreign Language and taught writing for 30 years in the Writing Center at MIT. She was active in Washington, D.C., fandom in the 60s and 70s and helped found the Science Fiction League at the U. of Iowa in 1975, where she has been club and convention Mommy and Mommy Emeritus ever since. In 2011 she was given the Big Heart Award. She’s been going to SF conventions since 1963. After 57 years of marriage, she still thinks Joe is the best thing that ever happened to her.
Ceridwen Hall is a poet and educator. She is the author of Acoustic Shadows (Broadstone Books) and two chapbooks: Automotive (Finishing Line Press), fields drawn from subtle arrows (co-winner of the 2022 Midwest Chapbook Award). Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Pembroke Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, Craft, Poet Lore, and other journals. Find her at www.ceridwenhall.com.
A former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is now a full-time writer living in Kentucky with her husband and their semi-feral toddlers. She is the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January and Hugo award-winning short fiction. Find her at @AlixEHarrow on Twitter.
Hao Jingfang has an undergraduate degree from Tsinghua University’s Department of Physics and a PhD from Tsinghua in Economics and Management. Her fiction has appeared in English in various publications, including Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and Uncanny. She has published three full–length novels, Wandering Maearth, Return to Charon, and Born in 1984; a book of cultural essays, Europe in Time; and several short story collections, Star Travelers, To Go the Distance, and The Depth of Loneliness. In 2016, her novelette, “Folding Beijing” (translated by Ken Liu), was a Hugo Award winner and Locus Award and Sturgeon Award finalist. Several of her stories, including “Folding Beijing,” are collected in Invisible Planets, an anthology of contemporary Chinese SF edited and translated by Ken Liu.
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