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Uncanny Authors

Rae Carson

Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press. Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others. Rae lives in Arizona with editor C.C. Finlay and their three rescue cats.

Photo by Rae Carson

Beth Cato

Nebula Award-nominated Beth Cato is the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge from 47North (summer 2023) plus two fantasy series from Harper Voyager. She’s a Hanford, California native transplanted to the Arizona desert, where she lives with her husband, son, and requisite cats. Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.

Keidra Chaney

Keidra Chaney is a writer, editor, and professional social justice digital rabble-rouser. She has been published in Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, Chicago Reader, Paste, and a bunch of publications that no longer exist.

She is online at keidradchaney,com and on Twitter @kdc

Andrea Chapela

Andrea Chapela (Mexico City, 1990) has a degree in chemistry from the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of a fantasy YA series, two books of short stories, and a book of essays. She is part of Mexicona, the Mexicanx Initiative and a member of the 2017 class of Clarion West. In English translation, her publications include poems in The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation, an essay in Tupelo Quarterly, and short stories in Lightspeed and Samovar. Andrea was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021. She lives in Mexico City with her cat Pandemia. Her essay collection The Visible Unseen is forthcoming with Restless Books in the Fall of 2022.

Rita Chen

Rita Chen is a disabled cyborg witch who spends a lot of time worrying about the human condition. She lives with her partner, her fibromyalgia, and her autism in Edmonton, Alberta. Her poetry has appeared in Uncanny, Liminality, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, and Polu Texni. Find her on Twitter @expositionist.

Joyce Chng

Joyce Chng lives in Singapore. Her fiction has appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future. Joyce also co-edited THE SEA IS OURS: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia with Jaymee Goh. Her alter-ego is J. Damask. Joyce’s pronouns are she/they.

Joyce Chng is Singaporean. She writes science fiction, YA and things in between. She can be found at @jolantru and A Wolf’s Tale.

Zen Cho

Zen Cho is the author of Crawford Award-winning short story collection Spirits Abroad and editor of anthology Cyberpunk: Malaysia. Her debut novel Sorcerer to the Crown (Ace/Macmillan), about magic, intrigue, and politics in Regency London, won a British Fantasy Award and was a Locus Awards finalist. She lives in the UK.

Photograph by Jim C. Hines

Roshani Chokshi

Roshani Chokshi is the author of commercial and critically acclaimed books for middle grade and young adult readers that draws on world mythology and folklore. Her work has been nominated for the Locus and Nebula awards, and has frequently appeared on Best of The Year lists from Barnes and Noble, Forbes, Buzzfeed and more. Her New York Times bestselling series includes The Star-Touched Queen duology, The Gilded Wolves, and Aru Shah and The End of Time, which was recently optioned for film by Paramount Pictures.

May Chong

May Chong is a bi Chinese Malaysian poet, speculative writer, and two-time Rhysling nominee whose work aims to tackle the heart and tickle the soul. Her verse has been featured in Strange Horizons, Anathema Magazine, Apparition Literary, and Fantasy Magazine. When she’s not at the keyboard, May enjoys birdwatching, spoken word (on both sides of the mic) and the worst possible puns. She is currently working on her first collection of speculative poetry. Find her on Twitter as @maysays.

John Chu

Hugo Award Winner John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, translator, and podcast narrator by night. His fiction has been published at Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Tor.com, among other venues. His translations have been published at Clarkesworld, The Big Book of SF, and other venues.

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