SUZAN PALUMBO was born in the 1980s in Trinidad & Tobago, and moved to Canada with her family as a young child. She grew up in Rexdale, Toronto, a Caribbean and South Asian immigrant neighborhood.

Palumbo began publishing work of genre interest with ‘Bloody Therapy’ in 2017, and has published more than a dozen pieces since in various magazines and anthologies, including WSFA Small Press Award and Nebula Award finalist ...Read More

RHONDA S.A. GARCIA was born in Trinidad and Tobago, where she has lived her entire life. Though she earned her A levels and qualified to enter university, her mother’s illness and other difficulties made it impossible for her to attend. She worked various jobs, most recently as an administrator in the engineering industry, until becoming a full-time writer following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2021.

Garcia began publishing SF with ...Read More

ANANDA FERNANDES LIMA was born in Brasília, Brazil, and grew up there. She attended high school in Australia for a year through an exchange program and returned there for her undergraduate degree. While in college, she did a year abroad in Los Angeles and later moved back to attend grad school at UCLA, where she earned her MA in linguistics. She met her husband there, and they later lived in ...Read More

LEV GROSSMAN was born June 26, 1969 and grew up in Lexington MA. He graduated from Harvard in 1991 and worked toward a PhD in comparative literature at Yale for three years, leaving before finishing his dissertation. He moved to New York, where he became a journalist and novelist. From 2002 to 2016, Grossman was a book critic and senior writer for TIME magazine, where he covered the internet, video ...Read More

JUSTIN CARLYLE KEY was born June 18, 1987, in Washington DC, where he grew up. He studied biology at Stanford University, attended medical school, and is now a practicing psychiatrist.

He began publishing genre fiction with “The Roller Coaster” in 2012, and his stories have appeared in F&SF, Lightspeed, Tor.com, Out There Screaming, and other magazines and anthologies. Notable stories include novelette “One Hand in the Coffin” (2020) an ...Read More

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE was born May 5, 1979 in Seattle WA, and grew up moving between her parents in Seattle and Sacramento CA. She attended high school in Davis CA, graduating at age 15 and attending UC San Diego, where she took a degree in Classical Studies. She attended grad school at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but quit to move overseas. She lived near Yokohama, Japan for just over ...Read More

MONIQUILL BLACKGOOSE is an enrolled member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe and a lineal descendant of Ousamequin Massasoit. She writes extensively about depictions of Indigenous and Indigenous-coded characters in SF, and is an active member of steampunk and cosplay communities. She studied cognitive psychology, and worked for several years in a children’s home before becoming a phlebotomist.

Debut novel Cygenic was published in 2020 under the name Monique Poirier. To ...Read More

SARAH LANGAN was born in 1974 and grew up in Long Island NY. She attended Colby College in Waterville ME, earned an MFA from Columbia University in 2000, and an MS Environmental Health Science from NYU in 2012. She lived in Brooklyn NY before relocating to Los Angeles CA, where she resides with her husband J.T. Petty and their children.

Langan began publishing work of genre interest in 2000, with ...Read More

CHỊKỌDỊLỊ  EMELỤMADỤ was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK, and raised in Awka, Nigeria. She attended boarding schools there, and went to college at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria, graduating with a BA in English language and literature. She returned to the UK in 2004 and attended the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she earned a Master’s in Cross Cultural Communications and International Relations. She went on to earn a ...Read More