weird fiction & sci-fi writer // LARS BREAXFACE: WEREWOLF IN SPACE (novel) // STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (stories) // he/him // Pittsburgh
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Musician. Cosplayer. Disabled disability advocate. Horror and gaming enthusiast. She/her.
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Canadian science-fiction writer; https://sfwriter.com
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Hysterical magic realist. Bisexual. Pittsburgh. Submissions reader for Fusion Fragment. Work in Thirteen Podcast, forthcoming from UP Magazine and Menhera 2020.
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Author of Cryptid Bits / writer of weird shit / editor of After Happy Hour / co-founder of Scribble House / nerd of all trades. Website JessSimms.com
Queer love story author. Angry bisexual. Lover of comics, gardens, games, nerd stuff. She/her. 🔮🌙🌻 linktr.ee/kateyhawthorne
Scientist and science-fiction writer.
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Author, teacher, husband, father, and pug-servant. I write horror, sci fi, middle grade, and fantasy, among other things. Check me out at my website... http://www.creepylittlebastard.com
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Attorney by day, author by night. Author of The Grimm Legacy series, The Hochenwalt Files series, and various short stories. Co-editor of Never Too Old to Save the World.
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I write fantasy, science fiction, and historical novels.
Author of SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire) and other works of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Keeper of many terrariums and aquariums.
Expect posts about my menagerie of herps, fish and cats, and my books.
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Editor for Triangulation 2025: Dark Hearts
Calls Pittsburgh home
Writer
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Studying DNA by day, writing about dragons at night.
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Spec fiction writer, esp alt history. Freelance editor for hire.
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Loves Dogs, Horses, Batoidea and the Sea ...
Writer, MG and YA fantasy and science fiction
Repped by Laurel Symonds of KT Literary
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Opinions my own
We are a VGM band from the far away land of Baltimore, MD. Our hobbies include rocking out and melting faces.
Guitarist & composer. Hannabach strings artist. All the things at damonbuxton.com.
Author of ANOTHER LIFE (Stelliform Press) and STEEL TREE (Android Press)
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SFFH stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. I stand for human creativity, coffee, petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
🎵And I’m writing a novel, because it’s never been done before. 🎵
Pittsburgh geek. I contain multitudes.
E.E. King is an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist. She’ll do anything that won’t pay the bills, especially if it involves animals.
Award-winning writer, speaker, photographer. (It's all storytelling.) Member: The Authors Guild & SFWA.
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📚 Pink horror & haunting speculative stories
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👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
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Author, editor, educator, poet, mime.
Published two MG fantasy novels, one picture book. Also has a Cli Fi published in Little Blue Marble Magazine.
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Gentleman adventurer, mercenary explorer, dime novel hero, and itinerant warrior in Meiji-era America.
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Retired engineer, author, game designer.
VERY married.
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Squid biologist
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The heart of science fiction and fantasy since 1984.
Horror writer. Professor. At one with the coffee. See what’s what at http://gorelets.com
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Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Publisher of F/SF anthologies and story collections - 29th Year 1997-2026. Based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.aanpress.com
Monthly speculative feline fiction, for real.
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The Young Adult Fiction Podcast featuring stories of the Fantastic
Episodes cross all speculative boundaries and if someone complains we are 'woke' or pandering to the liberals we are doing our job right!
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The oldest short-fiction horror podcast. We have always lived in the tower. We/they/them 🦑 Co-Editors: Kat Day & Alex Hofelich | Host: Alasdair Stuart | Asst Eds: Scott Campbell & Joshua Tuttle | Audio: Chelsea Davis & Graeme Dunlop 🎙️ PseudoPod.org
SFF writer. Ignyte Award winner!!! Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, Eugie, Sturgeon & Nebula finalist. Stories in BCS, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld & F&SF. Interviewer at Uncanny Magazine. Biracial. She/her.
NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. Next book: The Last Contract of Isako (May 2026). News: http://eepurl.com/O9JDn
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Author (The Dissociation Gazette, The Bus to Adventure City), MFA, Secretary of the Kansas Authors Club, enjoyer of both cat and puppy snuggles. She/her.
Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
Mom, wife, sister, activist, nature/animal lover, traveler, and business owner!! My religion is kindness. 🧡💚💜💙🩵
Speculative fiction writer (fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, in that order) and LCSW working for the Pittsburgh VA, trying to understand life, the universe, and everything.
SF/F author of 200+ stories, 2 novels, 6 novellas, 1 novelette, and 5 collections. Likes reading, gaming, hiking. 80% tea. Lives in a 2-cat household. Asexual agnostic socialist. She/her.
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Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
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Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
he/they indie folk/rock from Pittsburgh PA
Debut album The Void Bereft out now. 1/3 of The Roundlakes: ‘I’ll Take The River’ EP out as well.
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Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Bram Stoker Award nominated short-story author. Co-editor of The Midnight Zone: NOVUS MONSTRUM.
My story "Year Six" was recommended by Ellen Datlow for Best Horror 14. Songwriter, bassist, & YouTuber of weird old tales.
Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement.
I would probably like you.
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile:
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SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
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Literary Manager at Martin Literary Management, representing science-fiction, fantasy & horror authors and graphic novel creators
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I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Writer, reader, t-shirt artist (CoyoteShirts.com), radiographer, reformed politician, maker of charred meats, odd ball, usually full of piss and vinegar, a fool for you, happily punching Nazis since Castle Wolfenstein, all that and a bag of chips.
NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. His podcast with Violet Blue is Raised By Horror.
