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Shawn Proctor

Shawn Proctor is a speculative fiction writer who earned his bachelors from Kutztown University and MFA from Rosemont College. He works and lives near Philadelphia with his wife, Hope, a dynamic duo of kids, and a clowder of cats. He is a member of Codex writers group and Critters, and adores weird pajamas.

His fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Galaxy’s Edge, Flash Fiction Online, Daily Science Fiction, and Crab Orchard Review. Read more of his work at shawnproctor.com and follow him on Twitter @shawnproctor.

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H. Pueyo

H. Pueyo is a Brazilian writer of comics and speculative fiction. Her work has been published in English and Portuguese by magazines such as Clarkesworld, Fireside, and The Dark, among others. Find her online at hachepueyo.com, and @hachepueyo on Twitter.

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Dorothy Quick

Dorothy Gertrude Quick, born in Brooklyn on September 1st 1896, and who died March 15th 1962, was a prolific writer of horror, detective fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Quick had a close friendship with Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain), and later gave credit to Twain for encouraging her to write. She also lectured extensively on their friendship. Her 1961 memoir, Mark Twain and Me, was the basis for a 1991 Disney movie of the same name. Quick married John Adams Mayer in 1925 but published under her maiden name throughout her life. She made her first genre fiction sale to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of Oriental Stories, in 1932 and went on to contribute stories and poems to Wright’s more successful editing venture, Weird Tales, for more than twenty years.

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Sofia Quintero

Sofia Quintero is a writer and producer who tells stories that meet audiences where they are and take them someplace better. Raised in a working-class Puerto Rican-Dominican family in the Bronx and graduating from Columbia University, the self-proclaimed “Ivy League homegirl” has published six novels and twice as many short stories across genres including YA, “chick lit,” and erotica. Under the pen name Black Artemis, she wrote three novels described as “sister-centered hip-hop noir.”

Sofia’s stories are usually ahead of the curve, offering nuanced depictions of underrepresented communities years before the mainstream entertainment industries took up the challenge. Because her novels reflect an intentional hybrid between the commercial and the literary, exploiting popular tropes to raise socio-political issues for broad audiences, they are assigned at colleges across the nation and in multiple disciplines including English, Sociology, Women’s Studies, Criminal Justice, Latino studies, African American Studies, and Education.

In 2012, Sofia earned an MFA in Writing and Producing Television from the TV Writers Studio at Long Island University and was a 2017 Made in NY Writers Room Fellow. In addition to developing several projects for television, she’s working on her seventh novel called #Krissette. Inspired by the #SayHerName movement, #Krissette will be published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2020. Sofia will also be re-releasing her Black Artemis backlist as audiobooks.

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Z.M. Quỳnh

Zora Mai Quỳnh is a genderqueer Vietnamese writer whose short stories, essays, and poems can be found in The SEA is Ours, Genius Loci: The Spirit of Place, and POC Destroy Science Fiction, Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler, Strange Horizons, Terraform, Glittership, Mithila Review, and Kweli Journal. Website: zmquynh.com.

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Dominick Rabrun

Dominick Rabrun is an award-winning Haitian-American multimedia artist and voice actor. His first book, Vèvè-Punk Volume One, is a collection of eerie sci-fi stories and illustrations set in a future where Haiti is a world superpower. In this universe, spirits have replaced corporations, death is currency, and the afterlife itself has become a corrupted, tech-fueled machine. Discover more at domrabrun.com.

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Ramakrishnan

Ramakrishnan works for The Hindu (one of India’s major newspapers). He is currently working with the entertainment bureau and occasionally doubles as a video producer for the web team. He is 27 years old, male, and Indian and speaks English, Tamil, and a bit of Hindi. He loves good stories, good food and travel, ideally all three in combination, often!

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Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches atop a hill in the Pacific Northwest. Her 200+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She is an Endeavour, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee. Her 2018 works include Hearts of Tabat (novel, WordFire Press), Moving From Idea to Finished Draft (nonfiction, Plunkett Press) and the updated 3rd edition ofCreating an Online Presence for Writers (nonfiction, Plunkett Press). For more about her, as well as links to her fiction and her popular online school, The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, see her website kittywumpus.net

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Shiv Ramdas

Shiv Ramdas is an Indian writer of postcolonial speculative fiction- from science fiction and fantasy to horror and comedy and everything in between. Prior to turning fiction writer, he was a radio host who also spent several years writing advertising campaigns, jingles, radio productions, plays, songs, and numerous resignation letters. His work has previously appeared in Fireside and Giganotosaurus Magazine. His short story, “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing,” is forthcoming later this year in Strange Horizons. He currently lives in Seattle, USA, with his spouse and three cats.

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