Sam J. Miller & Jean Rice

Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction has appeared in Uncanny, Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, Apex, Strange Horizons, and The Minnesota Review, among others. His debut novel The Art of Starving (YA/SF) was published by HarperCollins in July, 2017, and was followed by Blackfish City from Ecco Press in 2018. His stories have been nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, and he’s a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in New York City, and at samjmiller.com.

Jean Rice was born on July 1st, 1939 in Anderson, South Carolina and was educated in the New York City Public School System. From 1979 through 1981 Jean attended Norwalk Community College in Norwalk Connecticut, where he studied Criminal Justice administration earning a place on the Deans List. While attending Norwalk Community College he was president of the Black Student Union and also served as the community liaison for then Deputy Mayor Otha Brown, Jr. Jean was homeless for over two decades, and is currently in transitional housing. He supplements his income by picking up cans for recycling and engaging in constitutionally-protected solicitation of the public, referred to by some as panhandling. Jean is also an avid reader and student of history. Jean is a member of the Board of Directors of Picture the Homeless, and is an active member of the Steering Committee and the Civil Rights Committee.