Elaine Ho
Elaine Ho is an award-winning Asian-American illustrator and author. She bounces between the US and Singapore, belonging to both and neither. Ho’s work primarily explores themes of identity and home, while also being drawn to the broken and the beautiful. She originally received a degree in psychology before pivoting into art full-time. Find her work at artofelaineho.com.
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Denise S. Robbins
Denise S. Robbins is from Madison, Wisconsin, the city where she grew up and to which she returned to after sixteen years living and working in climate activism on the East Coast. She lives with her husband in a yellow house circled by oaks and pines and two owls. Her stories have been published in literary journals including Barcelona Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and more. Read her work and get in touch at www.denisesrobbins.com.
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Samantha Bansil
Samantha Bansil is a Filipino-American fantasy author. She studied sociology and French at Boston University before earning a master’s degree at Institut d’études politiques de Paris. After trying on many a professional hat, she found her way back to her one true love: writing. Her stories often feature big feelings, lush settings, and unlikeable protagonists. A jet-setter at heart, she lives to travel worlds both real and imagined. When she’s not writing, she can be found wandering bookstores and ricocheting between continents. She works in Paris, France, as a content marketer.
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Naomi Novik
An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen. She studied English literature at Brown University, and did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide. Over the course of a brief winter sojourn spent working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred writing to programming, and on returning to
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Marie Lu
Hi there! I'm an author of mostly sci-fi/fantasy YA novels, like Legend, Warcross, The Young Elites, Skyhunter, and Stars & Smoke. My adult fantasy debut, Red City, releases this October 14, 2025.
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I graduated from the University of Southern California and currently live in LA with my family. Before becoming a full-time writer, I was an Art Director at a video game company. Now I spend most of my time writing, trying to keep my plants alive, and getting stuck in traffic. I feel very honored that I get to tell you stories, and my deepest wish is always that my books can offer you some joy, solace, entertainment, and/or escape. With all my heart, thank you for reading. -
Samantha Shannon
Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bone Season series. From 2010 to 2013 she studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Her fourth novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree (2019), was her first outside of the series. It has sold over a million copies in English alone, and was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards 2020. Its standalone prequel, A Day of Fallen Night (2023), won the gold medal in the Fantasy category at the Ippy Awards 2024.
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Mona Awad
Mona Awad is the bestselling author of the novels BUNNY, ROUGE, ALL'S WELL and 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL. She is a three time finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award, a finalist for the Giller Prize, and a winner of the Amazon Best First Novel Award. BUNNY was also a finalist for the New England Book Award and it won the Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award. It's currently in development for film with Bad Robot Productions. Her forthcoming novel, WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY will be released with Simon & Schuster in September 2025.
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She earned an MFA from Brown University and an MScR in English from the University of Edinburgh where her dissertation was on fear in the fairy tale. In 2018, she completed a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literary -
S.T. Gibson
S.T. Gibson is a poet, author, and village wise woman in training.
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Denise S. Robbins
Denise S. Robbins is from Madison, Wisconsin, the city where she grew up and to which she returned to after sixteen years living and working in climate activism on the East Coast. She lives with her husband in a yellow house circled by oaks and pines and two owls. Her stories have been published in literary journals including Barcelona Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and more. Read her work and get in touch at www.denisesrobbins.com.
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C.G. Drews
CG Drews is the award-winning author of The Boy Who Steals Houses and NYT Bestseller Don’t Let The Forest In, which is also a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Indie Next Pick, and Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick. Their next YA horror, Hazelthorn, is out October 28th, 2025, with debut adult horror, You Did Nothing Wrong, coming in 2026. Their work has been translated into six languages, received a nomination for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, and won the 2020 CBCA Honour Award. CG lives in Australia, never sleeps, and is forever buried under a pile of unread books. Find on Instagram as @paperfury, TikTok as @cgdrews, and at cgdrews.com.
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Tasha Suri
Tasha Suri was born in the U.K., but toured India during childhood holidays. She is now a librarian in London, and studied English and creative writing at Warwick University.
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Jackson Ford
Jackson Ford is the author of The Frost Files series, including The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind and Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air). He may or may not be the alter ego of author Rob Boffard, but he is definitely 100% a jackass.
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Deston J. Munden
Deston “D.J.” Munden is a fantasy and science fiction author, living near the Outerbanks of North Carolina. Somewhere in the vague realm of his late twenties and early thirties, he lives with his brother in a small house in the woods where he taught himself how to imagine and write down worlds with orcs, swords, and magic (and sometimes mutants and spaceships). When he’s not writing, he’s playing video games with his best buds, rolling horribly on multisided dice, eating double his weight in food, trying out new recipes, collecting samurai memorabilia and watching as much anime and reading as much manga as humanly possible (sometimes doing more than one of these things at once).
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Ayana Gray
Ayana Gray is a New York Times-bestselling author of speculative fiction. Her works have been translated in eleven languages across five continents. She currently lives in Arkansas.
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Francesca May
Francesca May grew up in the middle of England where she spent her childhood devouring fantasy books and brewing potions in her back garden. She currently lives in Derby with her partner, three black cats and two elderly rescue dogs.
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By day she works as a bookseller. By night she accidentally kills every house plant she touches and writes novels about gothic mansions, witchcraft, and queer love. -
Natasha Siegel
Natasha Siegel is a writer of historical fiction. She was born and raised in London, where she grew up in a Danish-Jewish family surrounded by stories.
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Her next book, As Many Souls As Stars, releases November 2025 with Bloomsbury UK / William Morrow.
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M.H. Ayinde
M. H. Ayinde is the Sunday Times bestselling author of epic fantasy novel A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST (Orbit UK/Saga Press). Her short fiction has appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine, F&SF, Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere, and she was the 2021 winner of the Future Worlds Prize. She is a runner, a lapsed martial artist, and a screen time enthusiast. She lives in London with three generations of her family and their Studio Ghibli obsession.
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A.B. Poranek
A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. When she isn't off on yet another inadvisable adventure, she can be found in London, where she spends her free time drawing strange creatures and trying to keep her plants from dying.
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V.L. Bovalino
V.L. Bovalino is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and now lives in the UK. She loves obscure academic facts, folklore, and oversized sweaters. Find her on online as @toribovalino.
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Maren Chase
Maren Chase is a writer and frequent museum-dweller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied history in the UK, where she led tours through monastic cloisters and across plague pits on the weekends. Since returning home, she works in the contemporary art world. Her favorite stories are about vengeful women, forbidden romance, and the inherent angst of immortality.
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Samantha Bansil
Samantha Bansil is a Filipino-American fantasy author. She studied sociology and French at Boston University before earning a master’s degree at Institut d’études politiques de Paris. After trying on many a professional hat, she found her way back to her one true love: writing. Her stories often feature big feelings, lush settings, and unlikeable protagonists. A jet-setter at heart, she lives to travel worlds both real and imagined. When she’s not writing, she can be found wandering bookstores and ricocheting between continents. She works in Paris, France, as a content marketer.
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Deena ElGenaidi
Deena ElGenaidi is a writer and editor in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, Dust Settles North, is forthcoming in September 2025. Deena’s writing has been published in Vulture, Insider, Nylon, Salon, Electric Literature, and more. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden and her MA in English from Villanova University.
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Molly O'Sullivan
Molly O’Sullivan is a cybersecurity engineer turned speculative fiction writer with a love of tea, nature, and characters who, despite everything, still manage to hope. Originally from South Carolina, she has lived all over the country but now resides outside Seattle with her husband, two children, and curmudgeonly dog. Find her on Instagram at @mollyobooks, or at her website, mollyosullivan.com.
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K.M. Fajardo
K. M. Fajardo is a second-generation Filipino-Canadian writer based in Toronto. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Global Business and Digital Arts before working in the tech industry. A speculative fiction writer, she enjoys stories that straddle genres and characters that find home in strange worlds. After a childhood spent roaming bookstores, she now lives and writes in the city with her rescue cat, Clementine, and can occasionally be found haunting the nearest café. LOCAL HEAVENS is her debut novel. Find her online at kmfajardo.com.
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Michelle Wong
Michelle Wong is an artist and writer from Hong Kong who worked on the Legend of Korra graphic novels. She loves video games and aesthetically pleasing horror, and currently lives in Vancouver.
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Deston J. Munden
Deston “D.J.” Munden is a fantasy and science fiction author, living near the Outerbanks of North Carolina. Somewhere in the vague realm of his late twenties and early thirties, he lives with his brother in a small house in the woods where he taught himself how to imagine and write down worlds with orcs, swords, and magic (and sometimes mutants and spaceships). When he’s not writing, he’s playing video games with his best buds, rolling horribly on multisided dice, eating double his weight in food, trying out new recipes, collecting samurai memorabilia and watching as much anime and reading as much manga as humanly possible (sometimes doing more than one of these things at once).
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K.M. Fajardo
K. M. Fajardo is a second-generation Filipino-Canadian writer based in Toronto. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Global Business and Digital Arts before working in the tech industry. A speculative fiction writer, she enjoys stories that straddle genres and characters that find home in strange worlds. After a childhood spent roaming bookstores, she now lives and writes in the city with her rescue cat, Clementine, and can occasionally be found haunting the nearest café. LOCAL HEAVENS is her debut novel. Find her online at kmfajardo.com.
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Deena ElGenaidi
Deena ElGenaidi is a writer and editor in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, Dust Settles North, is forthcoming in September 2025. Deena’s writing has been published in Vulture, Insider, Nylon, Salon, Electric Literature, and more. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden and her MA in English from Villanova University.
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Sung-Il Kim
Escribo ciencia ficción, fantasía y terror. Quería escribir una novela desde que era preescolar, pero el hecho de que revelara su deseo de ser escritor en la repetición del libro "Las aventuras del barón" escrito en el tercer año de la escuela Kookmin, y que escribiera varias obras de teatro para ser interpretadas en la clase de teatro cuando estaba en la universidad es una pequeña escaria.
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Abandonó la facultad de derecho y estaba escribiendo y traduciendo un libro de TRPG mientras dirijaba una editorial de TRPG, debutó en 2016 con la recomendación de un editor de novelas que vio el libro frondoso. Ha estado activo en serio desde 2020.
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U.M. Agoawike
U.M. Agoawike is a Nigerian-Canadian author of short stories with vibes for plot and SFF books featuring everything but the kitchen sink. When not writing, U.M. can be found drawing, watching horror movies, or reading fanfiction.
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Mona Tewari
Mona Tewari has long been fascinated by the ways in which narratives of legends and histories shape our views of the present. A graduate of Caltech and UCSF, Tewari practiced as a pediatric dentist for years before turning to writing fiction. As the daughter of two immigrants from India, she didn’t see herself represented in popular media while growing up and became determined to show her daughters they belong in every world. Tewari lives with her husband, daughters, and dogs in New England.
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Kim Narby
Kim Narby is a queer fiction writer and essayist from Seattle. She has organized with the New York City Dyke March, is a contributor at Write or Die Magazine, and is an alum of the Tin House Summer Workshop. Kim lives in Brooklyn with her anxious-attached emotional support cocker spaniel, Georgia. You can find her on social media @kimnarby.
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Marielle Thompson
Marielle Thompson is the author of historically inspired gothic fiction that always features a bit of love and a pinch of magic. She holds two master’s degrees in Romantic and Victorian Literature & Society, as well as Creative Writing, both from the University of Edinburgh. Born on New Hampshire’s Seacoast, she has lived in New York City and Scotland before settling in Switzerland, where she currently lives.
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