Tonya Liburd shares a birthday with Simeon Daniel and Ray Bradbury, which may tell you a little something about her. She is a 2017 and 2018 Rhysling nominee, and has been longlisted in the 2015 Carter V. Cooper (Vanderbilt)/Exile Short Fiction Competition. Her fiction is used in Nisi Shawl’s workshops,… Read more
Liz Westbrook-Trenholm has published or aired mainstream and speculative short fiction on radio, in magazines and in anthologies, most recently in Shades Within Us (Laksa Media), Over the Rainbow (Exile Press), Tesseracts 22 (Edge) and Amazing Stories. She won the Prix Aurora Award for short fiction in 2018 and had… Read more
José Pablo Iriarte is a Cuban-American writer and teacher who lives in Central Florida. José’s fiction can be found in magazines such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and others, and has been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies. Their novelette, “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births,”… Read more
‘Nathan Burgoine is a tall queer guy who writes mostly shorter queer things, though he has managed four novels in between. His debut SF novel, Light, was a Lambda Literary Finalist, and his first YA novel, Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, was a finalist for the Prix Aurora Award. He’s written… Read more
When S.M. Carrière isn’t brutally killing your favourite characters, she spends her time teaching martial arts, live streaming video games, and cuddling her cat. In other words, she spends her time teaching others to kill, streaming her digital kills, and cuddling a furry murderer. Read more
Rati Mehrotra is an Indo-Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer. She is the author of the Asiana duology: Markswoman and Mahimata. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for The Sunburst Award and has appeared in multiple venues including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Uncanny Magazine and… Read more
KT Bryski is a Canadian author and podcaster. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Augur, and Apex, among others, and her audio dramas are available wherever fine podcasts are found. She is the co-chair of the Ephemera Reading Series, a Parsec Award winner, and a past finalist for… Read more
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation. He has written three fiction titles, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. He graduated from… Read more
Phoebe Barton is a queer trans science fiction writer. Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Analog, Lightspeed, and Kaleidotrope, anthologies from Neon Hemlock and World Weaver Press, and she wrote the interactive fiction game The Luminous Underground for Choice of Games. She serves as an Associate Editor… Read more
Eric Choi is a Hong Kong born aerospace engineer, writer, and editor based in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in almost thirty publications, most recently the 90th anniversary issue of Analog and the anthology 20,000 Leagues Remembered. In 2009, he was one of the Top 40 finalists (out of 5,351… Read more