Kathleen Schaefer
Kathleen Schaefer is a speculative and contemporary fiction writer based in Seattle. When not writing, she works as a software engineer and enjoys playing board games and appeasing her attention-hungry cat.
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M. M. Schill
M. M. Schill currently resides in North Florida. She’s a writer, award-winning baker, graphic designer, and illustrator. When she’s not creating, she studies and teaches martial arts. Outside of those pursuits, she’s an outspoken advocate for abuse survivors. She maintains close ties to local survivor volunteer groups and help-centers. She often writes on the topic when she isn’t crafting in her speculative fiction worlds
Kenneth Schneyer
Ken was a finalist for both the Nebula and Sturgeon Memorial Awards for his story “Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer,” which also appeared on PodCastle. Fairwood Press released his second collection, Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices, in 2020, including both of his PodCastle stories and 24 others. His short fiction can be found in Uncanny, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the Clockwork Phoenix anthologies, and many podcasts. In his other life, he is a professor of humanities & legal studies at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he teaches everything from constitutional law to Shakespeare to science fiction. You can find him on Facebook and Twitter, as well as at his web site, kenschneyer.com
John Schoffstall
John Schoffstall has been writing fiction for as long as he can remember. He has published short fiction in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and other venues. One of my stories, “Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery,” has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Twentieth Annual Collection. His first novel, Half-Witch, was published by Small Beer Press in 2018.
Sam Schreiber
Sam Schreiber’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Journey Into…, the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, PodCastle, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and is an active member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers.
David J. Schwartz
David J. Schwartz’s first novel, Superpowers, was nominated for a Nebula Award; his short fiction has appeared in numerous venues. He lives in St. Paul, where he is working on a time travel trilogy about the city. For more about the author, see his website.
Rebecca Schwarz
By day, Rebecca Schwarz is a mild-mannered editorial assistant for a scientific journal, by night she writes science fiction and fantasy stories. Her work has appeared in Interzone, Bourbon Penn, and Daily Science Fiction. She is currently writing her first novel. You can read about her writing life at www.curiousworlds.blogspot.com.
Anna Schwind
Anna Schwind is a writer, editor, former librarian and Montessori educator living in Saint Louis, Missouri.
For five years she served as co-editor of PodCastle alongside Dave Thompson, and together they found and produced some of the finest audio fantasy fiction available.
While Anna preferred to stay mostly behind the scenes, her writing and narration has appeared a few times over the years.
Eric Schwitzgebel
Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and a cooperating faculty member in UCR’s program for Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science. (Yes, you can get a PhD in Speculative Fiction at UC Riverside.) His short fiction has appeared in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Nature, The Dark, and elsewhere. He has published bunches of academic articles and op-eds on what it means to believe something; on people’s failure to understand their own character and experiences; on robot rights, group minds, and A.I. consciousness; on ancient Chinese philosophy; on whether we might all be living in a giant computer simulation; and on the mediocre moral behavior of professional ethicists. He blogs about all this stuff and more at The Splintered Mind.
Nicole D. Sconiers
Nicole D. Sconiers is the author of Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage, a speculative fiction short-story collection that has been taught at colleges and universities around the country.
Her short story “Kim” was published in the anthology Sycorax’s Daughters, which was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. Ms. Sconiers was a guest columnist for Nightmare magazine’s The H-Word. Her short story “The Eye of Heaven” appeared in the anthology Black from the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing, published by BLF Press, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Her short stories “How to Become an Ancestor” and “70 Decibels” will appear summer 2021 in Lightspeed and Speculative City magazines. Her short story “Epiphany” will appear in the horror anthology December Tales in September 2021.
Ms. Sconiers currently resides in Pennsylvania, where she is working on a collection of horror stories and a horror podcast.