Adele Gardner (they/them, Mx.) is a fiction writer & award-winning poet with a poetry collection, Halloween Hearts, from Jackanapes Press and over 475 stories, poems, art, and articles in Analog, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, & more.
Ruthanna Emrys is the author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots, as well as co-writer of Tor.com’s Reading the Weird column. She also writes radically hopeful short stories about religion and aliens and psycholinguistics.
Jes Battis (they/them) is a queer autistic writer and teacher and the author of the Occult Special Investigator series and Parallel Parks series (as Bailey Cunningham) with Ace. Their first novel, Night Child, was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award.
Jonathan Nevair is a sci-fi writer and, as Dr. Jonathan Wallis, an art historian and Professor of Art History at Moore College of Art & Design, After two decades of academic teaching and publishing, he finally got up the nerve to write fiction.
Aaron Walker Sr. is the author of CARGO 3120: TIES THAT BIND, the first entry into his ongoing science fiction series, CARGO 3120. Having been a sci-fi fan since he was a child, Aaron hopes to eventually expand his work into television and beyond.
Peter Soyer Beagle is the internationally bestselling and much-beloved author of numerous classic fantasy novels and collections, including The Last Unicorn. He has also been honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award.
Eli K.P. William is the author of CASH CRASH JUBILEE and the remaining two books of the JUBILEE CYCLE trilogy, set in a dystopian future Tokyo. His translation of the Japanese novel A MAN by Keiichiro Hirano is a bestseller. He is based in Japan.
Adeena Mignogna, author of The Robot Galaxy series, is an engineer working in aerospace and a long-time science fiction geek with a strong desire to inspire others through speaking and writing about robots, AI, aliens, virtual reality, and more!
Veronica G. Henry is the author of Bacchanal, The Quarter Storm, The Foreign Exchange (Feb 2023) in the Mambo Reina series. Her work has debuted at #1 on multiple Amazon bestseller charts & was an editors’ pick for Best African American Fantasy.
Jen Karner is an award-winning SFF & horror novelist who never attended college but still did the required reading. A book goblin she enjoys horror movies, D&D podcasts & yelling at video games & when not writing can be found online @Articulatedream.
Practical guidance, frameworks, and tools for incorporating the principles of peacebuilding and nonviolence into compelling fiction. Many examples in this book are drawn from speculative fiction genres.
Roxana Arama is an award-winning Romanian American author and a former software developer. Her novels include The Regolith Temple: A Sci-Fi Thriller and The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
