The Team!
listed in order of signing!
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.
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. Her latest titles include Daughter of the Merciful Deep from Orbit and Brutal Fortress, third in her Bliss Wars series.
Roy Graham
is a writer from New York and graduate of the Rutgers-Camden MFA program and the Viable Paradise class of 2022. His nonfiction has been featured in Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Motherboard. He is currently Magic: the Gathering's story lead at Wizards of the Coast.
Sascha Stronach
is a Maori author from the Kai Tahu iwi and Kati Huirapa Runaka Ki Puketeraki hapu. She is based in Wellington, New Zealand, and has also spent time in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, which have all inspired parts of the fictional worlds she creates. A former tech writer, she first broke out into speculative fiction by experimenting with the short form. The Dawnhounds, her debut novel, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award at Worldcon 78.
K Arsenault Rivera
was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and has been living in New York since the age of three.
At a compact four foot nine, K is a concentrated dose of geekery. She’s incredibly passionate about her interests, some of which include Greek myths.