Picture Bleaker from Juno running around in the background of Black Hawk Down, and you’ll get Steven Capps. He is a father of one, an Infantry Sergeant, and a SFF writer. Steven graduated with a B.A. in English from the American Military University, and teaches high school English with Teach for America: South Carolina. His short story “Lux Nauta” won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future, 3rd Quarter 2016, and his nonfiction articles have ranged from SaaS companies in Silicon Valley to ballistic plate manufacturers in Ohio. When not writing or reading, he’s playing with his son, exercising, or being distracted by social media.

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Elizabeth Carroll is a graduate of Clarion South 2009. She lives in Tasmania, Australia with her husband and the Gerontocracy: two tabby cats of advancing years. She wrote the first draft of “The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling” during week 5 of Clarion, after a dream where she was six inches tall and two giant Clarion classmates were discussing her fate. This is her first international publication. For more about the author, see her website.

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. She writes young adult novels full-time. She lives in Arizona with her writer husband and two naughty kitties.

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Erin Cashier is fond of the unreliable narrator. She grew up in Texas but lives/works/plays in Northern California. Like all writers her cat loves her particularly much, and her husband is a fantastic man. Erin works as a registered nurse at a Burn Ward, which is amazing and challenging in equal measure.

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Eleanna Castroianni is a nomadic subject with roots extending from the depths of Anatolia all the way to its Mediterranean coasts and beyond. Among other things, they are a gender and geography scholar, an oral storyteller under traditional apprenticeship, a teacher of languages, and a refugee rights advocate. Their fiction and poetry have appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Eye to the Telescope. They live in Athens, Greece.

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Beth Cato is from Hanford, California, and resides near Phoenix, Arizona. She’s the author of The Clockwork Dagger and The Clockwork Crown steampunk fantasy novels from Harper Voyager. Her brand new alt-history steampunk series starts with Breath of Earth this August. Her novella, “Wings of Sorrow and Bone,” is a Nebula Award finalist. For book news and bountiful cookie recipes, please visit BethCato.com.

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Nathalie Cerin is a Philadelphia based singer-songwriter, teaching artist and blogger originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She likes to think of herself as the class clown all grown up. Nathalie has a deep passion for Haiti and the arts, especially wherever these two topics converge. She is the editor for Woy Magazine (woymagazine.com).

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S. (Shannon) A. Chakraborty is a NY-based speculative fiction writer and history buff. Her debut, The City of Brass, is out now with Harper Voyager and is the first book in The Daevabaad Trilogy, an epic fantasy set in the 18th century Middle East. Originally (and proudly!) from New Jersey, S. A. currently resides in Queens with her husband and daughter. When not buried in books about Mughal portraiture and Omani history, she enjoys hiking, knitting, and recreating unnecessarily complicated medieval meals for her family. You can find her online most frequently at Twitter (@SChakrabs) where she likes to ramble about history, politics, and Islamic art.

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Renee Chambliss is a writer and audiobook narrator.

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Eliza Chan is a writer and occasional narrator of speculative fiction. It amuses her endlessly that people find her Scottish accent soothing. Her #1 Sunday Times bestselling debut novel FATHOMFOLK and sequel TIDEBORN— inspired by mythology, East and Southeast Asian cities and diaspora feels — are out now from Orbit. Her short fiction has been published in The Dark, Podcastle, Fantasy Magazine and The Best of British Fantasy. When not working on her current novel or reading, Eliza can be found boardgaming, watching anime, toddler wrangling and dabbling in crafts.

Find her on instagram @elizachanwrites or on her website www.elizachan.co.uk.

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