Ann Leckie

Ann Leckie is the author of the award winning novel Ancillary Justice and its sequels Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy. She lives in St Louis.

Fonda Lee

Fonda Lee is the author of the epic fantasy Green Bone Saga, consisting of Jade City, Jade War, and Jade Legacy. She is also the author of the acclaimed young adult science fiction novels Zeroboxer, Exo, and Cross Fire. Fonda is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, a three-time winner of the Aurora Award, and a multiple finalist for the Nebula Award and Locus Award. The Green Bone Saga has been translated into multiple languages and named to TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time. Fonda is a former corporate strategist and black belt martial artist residing in the Pacific Northwest. You can find her online at www.fondalee.com

R.B. Lemberg

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Ukraine, Russia, and Israel to the US. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed‘s Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and more. R.B.’s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards. R.B’s new Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves is forthcoming from Tachyon Press in 2020. “Eating disorder…” is a part of their larger project in progress, Everything Thaws. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at patreon.com/rblemberg, and at rblemberg.net.

Jasmine Leng

Jasmine Leng is a fiction writer, poet, and sometimes artist from a small town in western Massachusetts. She has been recognized by the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and has received an American Voices Medal for her short story “The Last Yangtze River Dolphin Died in 2002.” Her work, which often revolves around Chinese-American identity and the environment, is published in American High School Poets, Rising Phoenix Review, Paper Crane Literary Journal, and Vagabond City. When she’s not writing, she likes to procrastinate by playing the piano and flute, learning foreign languages, and dreaming of living inside the Grand Canyon.

Vivian Li

Vivian Li is a writer, musician, and composer who enjoys exploring obscure and intriguing concepts. Her creative work can be found in Plenitude Magazine, Mad Scientist Journal, ellipsis… literature & art, among others. Most recently, she was Longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020, and received Honorable Mentions from Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize 2019. A MFA candidate at UBC, she currently edits for Augur, and can be reached @eliktherain.

Cara Liebowitz

Cara Liebowitz is an author, advocate, and sensitivity reader. When not working or writing, she can be found reading, playing boccia, or watching Dungeons and Dragons actual play shows. She currently lives in New York CIty with her roommate and their geriatric cat.

Sandi Leibowitz

Sandi Leibowitz, author of The Bone-Joiner and Eurydice Sings, writes speculative poetry and fiction that may be found in Devilfish Review, Metaphorosis, Liminality, Mythic Delirium, Polu Texni, Silver Blade, and other magazines and anthologies. Her poems have won second- and third-place Dwarf Stars, and been nominated for the Rhysling, Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net awards. She recently created Sycorax Press, a micropress devoted to mythic poetry, and the related online magazine, Sycorax Journal. An elementary-school librarian, she also sings classical and early music. She lives in a raven’s wood next door to bogles in New York City. She invites you to visit her online at sandileibowitz.com.

Susan L. Lin

Susan L. Lin is a Taiwanese American storyteller who hails from southeast Texas and holds an MFA in writing from California College of the Arts. Her novella Goodbye to the Ocean won the 2022 Etchings Press novella prize, and her literary/visual art has appeared in nearly a hundred publications. She loves to dance. Find more at susanllin.com.

Marissa Lingen

Marissa Lingen is a freelance writer who lives in the Minneapolis suburbs with her family. She is the author of over two hundred works of short science fiction and fantasy and has no intention of stopping any time soon. She also writes essays, poetry, and whatever comes to her next. Her debut novella, A Dubious Clamor, is coming soon from Horned Lark Press.

Kelly Link

Kelly Link is the author of four short story collections: Get in Trouble, a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Pretty Monsters, Magic for Beginners, and Stranger Things Happen. She lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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