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Sonya Taaffe reads dead languages and tells living stories. Her short fiction and poetry have been collected most recently in Forget the Sleepless Shores and previously in Singing Innocence and Experience, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens, A Mayse-Bikhl, and Ghost Signs. She lives with her husband and two cats in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she writes about film for Patreon and remains proud of naming a Kuiper belt object.
Catherynne M. Valente is the acclaimed author of Space Opera, and a New York Times-bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, and Hugo Awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. Her most recent collection of short fiction is The Future Is Blue. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
Genevieve Valentine’s first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, won the 2012 Crawford Award and was nominated for the Nebula. Subsequent novels include the speakeasy fairy tale The Girls at the Kingfisher Club and the political thriller Persona and its sequel Icon. She has written Catwoman for DC Comics and Xena: Warrior Princess for Dynamite. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Lightspeed, and other venues, as well as anthologies such as Mad Hatters and March Hares, Infinity Wars, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, The Doll Collection, and Fearsome Magics. Stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, and have appeared in over a dozen “year’s best” anthologies. Her nonfiction has appeared at NPR.org, The AV Club, Strange Horizons, io9.com, LA Review of Books, Vice, Vox, The Atlantic, and the New York Times.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Paula Guran is an editor, reviewer, and typesetter. In an earlier life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited magazine Horror Garage (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. This is, if she’s counted correctly, the forty-sixth anthology Guran has edited. She has four fabulous grandchildren she would be happy to tell you about. Guran still lives in Akron, Ohio, but has moved from the crumbling family manse into a condominium apartment. Even though she got rid of a great many books, she still has far too many. Of course she has a cat.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to C. C. Finlay, Gordon Van Gelder, and more than three dozen authors who contacted me through Facebook and Twitter with suggestions.—PRLG
“Trickster” © 2008 Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due. First publication: The Darker Mask, eds. Gary Phillips & Christopher Chambers (Tor).
“Ys” © 2009 Aliette de Bodard. First publication: Interzone #222.
“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” © 2016 Brooke Bolander. First publication: Uncanny #13.
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“Seeds” © 2015 Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter. First publication: Midnight and Moonshine (Ticondaroga Press).
“Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream” © 2012 Maria Dahvana Headley. First publication: Lightspeed, July 2012.
“The God of Au” © 2008 Ann Leckie. First publication: Helix, Spring 2008.
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“Owl vs. the Neighborhood Watch” © 2017 Darcie Little Badger. First publication: Strange Horizons, 10 July 2017.
“The Ten Suns” © 2014 Ken Liu. First publication: Surviving the Collapse, eds. Alex Shvartsman & William Snee (Deorc Enterprises).
“Immortal Snake” © 2008 Rachel Pollack. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2008.
“Leda” © 2002 M. Rickert. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2002.
“How to Survive an Epic Journey” © 2017 Tansy Rayner Roberts. First publication: Uncanny, November/December 2017.
“Ogres of East Africa” © 2014 Sofia Samatar. First publication: Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, eds. Daniel José Older & Rose Fox (Crossed Genres).
“Simargl and the Rowan Tree” © 2006 Ekaterina Sedia. First publication: Mythic 2, ed. Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books).
“Thesea and Astaurius” © 2013 Priya Sharma. First publication: Interzone #246.
“Wonder-Worker-of-the-World” © 2005 Nisi Shawl. First publication: Reflection’s Edge, May 2005.
“Zhuyin” © 2019 John Shirley. Original to this volume.
“Lost Lake” © 2013 Peter and Emma Straub. First publication: xoOrpheus: Fifty New Myths, ed. Kate Bernheimer (Penguin).
“A Memory of Wind” © 2009 Rachel Swirsky. First publication: Tor.com, November 11, 2009.
“A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie” © 2011 Sonya Taaffe. First publication: Not One of Us, April 2011.
“White Lines on a Green Field” © 2010 Catherynne M. Valente. First publication: Ventriloquism (PS Publishing).
“Armless Maidens of the American West” © 2012 Genevieve Valentine. First publication: Apex Magazine, August 2012.