Ace Ratcliff

Ace currently lives and works in Oakland, CA with her fiancé, Derek, and their pack of wild beasts. She lives with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, dysautonomia, and mast cell activation syndrome, all of which make for a particularly rebellious meatcage.

Ace writes about disability inclusion and representation and has bylines at io9, Huffington Post, Self Magazine, Bustle, and Bitch Media. She’s been featured in an Upworthy video which garnered more than 1.8 million views. Ace’s essay “Who Gets to Say #MeToo?” was published in Fireside Fiction‘s Fireside Quarterly July 2018 edition. Ace’s essay “Nihil De Nobis, Sine Nobis” appeared as part of Uncanny Magazine‘s Kickstarter campaign for Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Her poetry has been published in Breath & Shadow. Her short story, “The Ritual,” appeared in Phobos Magazine. She was a panelist at Worldcon 76. Ace’s voice as a disability activist has also been featured in The Economist, The Guardian, and Chuck Wendig’s terribleminds, and she’s gettin’ pretty good at podcasts.

When not freelancing, Ace is also the co-owner of Ace is the co-owner of Harper’s Promise, an in-home pet euthanasia, hospice and palliative care company. You can find link to her work at stayweirdbekind.com and she tweets @mortuaryreport.

Nicasio Andres Reed

Nicasio Andres Reed is a Filipino-American writer, poet, and essayist whose work has appeared in venues such as Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Shimmer. Nico has gone back and forth between the United States and the Philippines over the years, and is currently pursuing an MA in creative writing at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Find him on Twitter @NicasioSilang.

Jenn Reese

Jenn Reese (they/she) writes speculative fiction for readers of all ages. Jenn is the author of the middle grade novels Every Bird a Prince, A Game of Fox & Squirrels, and the Above World trilogy. Puzzleheart, their next, will be out in 2024. Jenn lives in Portland, Oregon where they make art, play video games, and talk to the birds. More at jennreese.com.

Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee is a poet, scholar, and new media artist. Her debut poetry collection, Love, Robot, was awarded the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. Her forthcoming books, a scholarly monograph, Machine Dreams: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body, and a lyrical poetry book, Poetry Machines: Letters to Future Readers, are both under contract with Duke University Press. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Media Studies and Chair of the Arts Writing Concentration in the Creative Writing MFA Program at The New School. She lives in New York City.

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Julia Rios

Julia Rios is a writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, and Goblin Fruit. Currently the Fiction Editor for Fireside Magazine, she won the Hugo award in 2017 as Poetry and Reprint editor for Uncanny Magazine, and was a Hugo finalist as a Senior Fiction Editor for Strange Horizons. She is a co-host of The Skiffy and Fanty Show, a general SF discussion podcast, and Walkthrough, a discussion of exercise and geekery with Amal El-Mohtar and Layla Al-Bedawi. She has narrated stories for Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders.

Parlei Rivière

Parlei Rivière is the penname of Jamiella Brooks, an academic living in Philadelphia, PA. As a Black mother-scholar, daughter, and descendant, she explores the intersections of language, anti-colonialism, and space. She considers speculative fiction as a speech act—changing the course of our futures by speaking into existence that which was not once was. She is published in numerous academic spaces, including Faculty Focus and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Rebecca Roanhorse

Rebecca Roanhorse is a NYTimes and USA Today bestselling writer. She has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award, plus the 2018 Astounding (Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Her novels include Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, and the middle grade novel Race to the Sun. Her next novel, Black Sun, comes out from Saga Press in late 2020. She lives in Northern New Mexico with her husband and daughter.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

Tansy Rayner Roberts is gradually adding more romance to her fantasy fiction one drip at a time, so that her readers build their immunity. Tansy’s most romantic recent release is This Enchanted Island, the final book in her cozy Teacup Magic series, in which a young lady runs away from the Social Season; falls in love with the sea, a mermaid, and her ship’s captain in that order; and finds her (triad) happy ever after on a slightly homicidal magical island.

Eddie Robson

Eddie Robson is a novelist, scriptwriter and journalist, based in Lancaster, UK. His novels include Drunk On All Your Strange New Words (2022), Hearts of Oak (2020), and Tomorrow Never Knows (2015). He wrote the BBC Radio sitcom Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and three episodes of the Chinese adaptation of the SF drama Humans. His other work includes children’s animation such as Sarah & Duck and The Amazing World Of Gumball, comic strips for 2000AD and many Doctor Who audio plays. His work outside SF&F includes the Audible rom-com Car Crash.

Kelly Robson

Kelly Robson is a Canadian short fiction writer. Her novelette “A Human Stain” won the 2018 Nebula Award, and she has won both the 2019 and 2016 Aurora Awards for best Short Story. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, Astounding, Aurora, and Sunburst Awards. Kelly consults as a creative futurist for organizations such as UNICEF and the Suncor Energy Foundation. After twenty-two years in Vancouver, she and her wife, writer A. M. Dellamonica, now live in downtown Toronto.