Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. They're a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.
Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University, graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts. In July 2018, they were hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch. Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020 and for the 2022 Deadpool series. [source](https://e...
Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian poet and writer of speculative fiction.
Ann Leckie is the author of the award-winning novel Ancillary Justice. Her work often explores themes of identity and empire within the science fiction genre.
Pseudonym for Dr AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantium Empire and a city planner.
Note: Wife of [Vivian Shaw][1]
[1]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7527474A
Carlos Hernandez is the author behind the spooky collection The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities. If you enjoy tales that blend the unsettling with the strange, you'll find a lot to like here.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Wastelands, a collection that explores themes of horror and the uncanny. Her work often blends genre fiction with sharp, insightful prose.
Dominik Parisien is an editor and writer in speculative fiction. He's known for anthologies like The Mythic Dream and Mythic Delirium, and co-edited Robots vs. Fairies and The Starlit Wood. His work often features myth and fantasy stories.
Indrapramit Das writes across science fiction, fantasy, and ghost stories. His notable works include "The Mythic Dream," "Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories," and "La vida secreta de los bots y otros relatos." His short fiction has also appeared in "The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction" and "The Year's Best Science Fiction" collections.
Jeffrey Ford is the author of the gripping Western novel Dead Man's Hand. His work often explores the darker corners of human nature and the American West.
John Chu is an American author. He writes science fiction.
Kat Howard is the editor behind The Best of Uncanny, a collection showcasing fantastic speculative fiction. She has a knack for finding stories that will stick with you long after you've turned the last page.
Leah Cypess writes science fiction and fantasy, with notable works including The Mythic Dream. She also appeared in The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2021 Edition.
Naomi Novik is an American author of fantasy and alternate history, best known for the nine-book Temeraire series — an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars fought with dragons — the Scholomance trilogy (A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, The Golden Enclaves), and the award-winning standalone novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver. She holds a degree in English literature from Brown University and a master's in computer science from Columbia University, and co-founded the Organization for Tr...
Navah Wolfe is an editor known for her work in speculative fiction. She has curated several popular anthologies, including The Mythic Dream, Robots vs. Fairies, and The Starlit Wood, showcasing a range of fantasy and science fiction stories.
Neon Yang is the Hugo-, Nebula- and WFA-nominated author of the Tensorate novellas from Tor.Com Publishing (The Red Threads of Fortune, The Black Tides of Heaven and The Descent of Monsters, and The Ascent to Godhood). They are queer, non-binary, and live in Singapore. Find them on Twitter as @itsneonyang, and otherwise at http://neonyang.com.
Rebecca Roanhorse (born September 23, 1971, in Conway, Arkansas) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer based in Northern New Mexico. She holds degrees from Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, and the University of New Mexico School of Law.
Her novels include the Sixth World duology (Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts) and the Between Earth and Sky trilogy (Black Sun, Fevered Star, Mirrored Heavens), which won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Series, along with Star Wars: Resi...
Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in California. Their nonfiction has been published by dozens of venues internationally including Locus and the Boston Globe. Their fiction has been published internationally in over six different languages. Their debut novel, Magic for Liars, was an LA Times bestseller. Their most recent novel, The Echo Wife, is available now everywhere books are sold. You can find links to their work at sarahgailey.com and on social media at @gaileyfrey.
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Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author of urban fantasy, science fiction and horror. She writes the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series and the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series under her own name, science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the children's portal fantasy "Up-and-Under" series as A. Deborah Baker. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010 and has since won multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awa...
Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972, in Midland, Texas) is an American author of horror, crime and speculative fiction, and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation. He holds a B.A. from Texas Tech University, an M.A. from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University, and is the Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 2008. His novels include The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and The Bu...
T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.
This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about...