Adele Gardner (they/them, Mx.) is a fiction writer & award-winning poet with a poetry collection, Halloween Hearts, from Jackanapes Press and over 475 stories, poems, art, and articles in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, and more. A pro member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and the Horror Writers Association, a life member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and the Poetry Society of Virginia, and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, this genderfluid, pan night owl loves libraries, samurai films, and reading comics with cats. Adele serves as literary executor for father, mentor, and namesake Delbert R. Gardner and as cochair of the 2022 Dwarf Stars Award with Greer Woodward: https://sfpoetry.com/ds/22dwarfstars.html

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