Lynne M. Thomas

Eleven-time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas was co-Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Uncanny Magazine with Michael Damian Thomas. The former Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013), she co-edited the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords, as well as Whedonistas and Chicks Dig Comics. She moderated the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast, and contributes to the Verity! Podcast . In her day job, she was the Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University, where she is responsible for the papers of over 70 SF/F authors. You can learn more about her shenanigans at lynnemthomas.com.

Michael Damian Thomas

Michael Damian Thomas is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Locus Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. In these roles, Michael has won nine Hugo Awards, a British Fantasy Award, a World Fantasy Award, and a Parsec Award.  Michael was a Hugo Award finalist as the former Managing Editor of Apex Magazine (2012-2013), co-edited the Hugo Award finalist essay anthology Queers Dig Time Lords (Mad Norwegian Press, 2013) with Sigrid Ellis, co-edited the anthology Glitter & Mayhem (Apex Publications, 2013) with John Klima and Lynne M. Thomas, and co-edited the Locus Award finalist anthology The Best of Uncanny (Subterranean Press, 2019) with Lynne M. Thomas.

Michael was additionally a contributor to the SF Squeecast podcast (with Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente), a contributor to the Down and Safe- Blake’s 7 podcast (with Amal El-Mohtar, Scott Lynch, and L.M. Myles), and is currently the Content Editor of the It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton podcast.

Michael was formerly the full-time caregiver of his late daughter, Caitlin. Caitlin had a rare congenital disorder called Aicardi syndrome. Michael currently lives in Urbana, Illinois.

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Lynne and Michael are the Publishers/Editors-in-Chief of Uncanny Magazine.

Ten-time Hugo, British Fantasy, and 2-time Parsec Award-winner Lynne M. Thomas was the Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine (2011-2013). She co-edited the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords (with Tara O’Shea) and Hugo Award-finalist Chicks Dig Comics (with Sigrid Ellis).

Seven-time Hugo, British Fantasy, and Parsec Award-winner Michael Damian Thomas was the former Managing Editor of Apex Magazine (2012-2013), co-edited the Hugo-finalist Queers Dig Time Lords (with Sigrid Ellis), and co-edited Glitter & Mayhem (with John Klima and Lynne M. Thomas).

Sheree Renée Thomas

Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books 2020), Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press), longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a PW Starred Review, and Shotgun Lullabies (2011). Widely anthologized, her work appears most recently in Apex Magazine, Fireside Fiction, The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, The New York Times, and Marvel’s Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda. Sheree is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and associate editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975. Sheree lives in Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid. Visit www.shereereneethomas.com

Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson is a multi-award winning writer of novels, short stories, and screenplays. His background is in medicine, psychiatry, and social anthropology. He is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his book Rosewater, part of the Wormwood Trilogy, which was a finalist for Best Series in the Hugo Awards. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Vice President of the British Science Fiction Association. He lives and works on the south coast of England.

Karin Tidbeck

Karin Tidbeck is originally from Stockholm, Sweden. She lives and works in Malmö as a freelance writer, translator, and creative writing teacher, and writes fiction in Swedish and English. She debuted in 2010 with the Swedish short story collection Vem är Arvid Pekon?. Her English debut, the 2012 collection Jagannath, was awarded the Crawford Award 2013 and shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Her novel debut, Amatka, was published in June 2017 by Vintage. She devotes her spare time to forteana, subversive cross-stitching, and Nordic LARP.

Photograph by Andreas Ingefjord

Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar’s work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama, Golgotha, and Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming and World Fantasy Award winner Osama, and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom winner Central Station. His latest books are The Three Coffin Problem and Guns and Sorcery, both 2026.

Photo (c) 2023 by Nir Yaniv. Used with permission.

Emma Törzs

Emma Törzs is a writer, teacher, and occasional translator based in Minneapolis. Her debut novel, Ink Blood Sister Scribe, was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Good Morning America Book Club pick, and a NYT Notable Book, and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Her short fiction has been honored with an NEA fellowship, a World Fantasy Award, and an O. Henry Prize, and has been published in places such as American Short Fiction, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and of course, Uncanny. She’s an enthusiastic graduate of the Clarion West class of 2017, and teaches currently at Macalester College.

Tracy Townsend

Tracy Townsend holds a Master’s degree in Writing & Rhetoric from DePaul University and a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from DePaul University, a source of regular consternation when proofreading her credentials. She has served as chair of the English Department at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, an elite public boarding school, where she currently teaches creative writing, and science fiction and fantasy literature, still recovering from past careers as a martial arts instructor, a stage combat and accent coach, and a short-order cook for houses full of tired gamers. Now she lives in Bolingbrook, Illinois with two bumptious hounds, two remarkable children, and one very patient husband. Her gaslamp fantasy The Nine (a finalist for the Stabby Award for Best Debut) was published by Pyr in 2017 with the sequel, The Fall,coming in June 2019. Tracy is also a columnist for the feminist sf magazine Luna Station Quarterly, where she writes about story craft and world-building. You can find her on Twitter (@TracyATownsend) or online at tracytownsend.net.

Eugenia Triantafyllou

Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her work has won the British Fantasy and the Shirley Jackson Awards and has been nominated for the British Science Fiction, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can find her stories in Reactor, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, and other venues. She currently lives in Athens with a boy and a dog. Literary representation: Jessica Friedman, Sterling Lord Literistic.