Meg Elison

Debut novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Novelette "The Pill" won the 2021 Locus Award. Meg is a Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Award finalist. She has been an Otherwise Award honoree twice. YA debut Find Layla was named one of Vanity Fair's Best 15 Books of 2020. Recent titles include parasocial thriller Number One Fan published by HarperCollins Mira and short fic/essay collection Big Girl published by PM Press.

http://megelison.com/

Leslye Penelope

Debut novel Song of Blood & Stone was one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time and won the inaugural award for Best Self-Published Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Novel The Monsters We Defy won the 2023 Audie Award for Best Fantasy Audiobook and was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2022. Upcoming titles include Daughter of the Merciful Deep from Orbit and Brutal Fortress, third in her Bliss Wars series.

https://lpenelope.com/