LP Kindred (he/him/his) is a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer, editor, and teaching artist of Speculative Fiction from interesections of his Queer and Black Identity. An alum of Hurston-Wright, VONA, and Clarion, his fiction is featured or forthcoming in Fiyah Literary Magazine, LeVar Burton Reads, Speculative City, Queer Blades, Escape Pod, Anathema, and PodCastle. LP is a cocoa-founder at Voodoonauts, a grassroots collective addressing the isolation and underrepresentation of Black Creators in Speculative Fiction. When not cheating on his novel with shorter fiction, Kindred can be found lifting heavy objects, deepdiving into questionable television, eating good food, and pretending to be fancy. You may find him on InfluencerGram and ThatDamnedBirdApp @lpkindred