Eli Wilkinson

Eli Wilkinson writes science fiction and horror stories. He lives and works in the frozen wastelands of Canada.

Kristiana Willsey

Kristiana Willsey is a writer and an academic who lives in Los Angeles. She is a 2019 graduate of Clarion West, and has published fiction in Uncanny Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and Air and Nothingness Press. She has a PhD in Folklore and teaches at the University of Southern California.

Daniel H. Wilson

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, The Clockwork Dynasty, and The Andromeda Evolution (an authorized sequel to Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain). He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Machine Learning and Robotics. His next novel is Hole in the Sky, a tale of Native first contact with extraterrestrials. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon.

A.C. Wise

A.C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Shimmer, The Dark, and The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10, among other places. She has two short fiction collections published by Lethe Press, and a weird Southern Gothic novella published by Broken Eye Books (August 2019). In addition to fiction, her Women to Read and Non-Binary Authors to Read series can be found at The Book Smugglers. She blogs sporadically at acwise.net and tweets slightly more frequently (mostly sharing pictures of her corgis) as @ac_wise.

G. Willow Wilson

G. Willow Wilson is co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning comic book series Ms. Marvel (now a Disney+ television series), writer of the GLAAD Award-winning Poison Ivy series, and has written for some of the world’s best-known superhero comics, including The X-Men, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, The Bird King, was named one of the best fantasy novels of the decade by NPR. In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the PEN America Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle.

John Wiswell

John is a disabled author who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, won the Nebula award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. His fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. He is also the author of Wearing the Lion (2025) and The Dragon Has Some Complaints (2026). He longs to pet some sharks. You can find out more about him at: linktr.ee/johnwiswell

Mikal Wix

Mikal Wix is a queer writer from Miami, Florida, where many things go to unravel but end up in knots. Their writing has appeared in journals, such as North American Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Moss Puppy, Door = Jar, Portland Review, and Gone Lawn. They serve as poetry editor for West Trade Review. All published works here: https://linktr.ee/mikalwix

Navah Wolfe

Navah Wolfe is an editor at Saga Press, Simon & Schuster’s science fiction and fantasy imprint, where she has edited critically–acclaimed novels such as Borderline by Mishell Baker, Persona by Genevieve Valentine, The Mountain of Kept Memory by Rachel Neumeier, and A Green and Ancient Light by Frederic S. Durbin. She is also the co–editor, along with Dominik Parisien, of The Starlit Wood, an anthology of cross–genre fairy tale retellings, released in October 2016 from Saga Press. She was previously an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she worked on many bestselling books, including some that have won awards such as the Printz Honor, the Pura Belpré Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, the Stonewall Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Schneider Family Award. She has previously worked as a bookseller, a rock climbing wall manager, and a veterinary intern at a zoo. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two tiny humans, and one editorial cat. She can be found online at sagapress.com and on Twitter as @navahw.

Ellen Brady Wright

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary writer who lives in Minnesota. Favorite things include: robots, dinosaurs, monsters, and tea. Their stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Fireside, Apex, Uncanny, Shimmer, Cicada, and other fine venues, with reprints included in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2015 and 2017). Merc likes to play video games, watch movies, read comics, and wear awesome hats. You can find Merc on Twitter @Merc_Wolfmoor or their website: amercrustad.com. Merc also has a debut short story collection, So You Want to Be a Robot, published by Lethe Press (2017).

Ytasha L. Womack

Ytasha L. Womack is an award-winning producer, director, author, and innovator.  She is author of the critically acclaimed books Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture, Rayla 2212, Post Black: How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity; and co-edited Beats Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip Hop.  Afrofuturism is a 2014 Locus Awards Nonfiction Finalist, and Post Black was hailed as a Booklist Top 10 Black History Reader of 2010.  Her films include Love Shorts and The Engagement. The Engagement was nominated for Best Film at the American Black Film Festival. A Chicago native, she recently co-founded Afrofuturism849  to host discussions and events in Afrofuturism. She shoots her sci-fi film Bar Star City later this year.