Eventually even Grandfather approved.
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BIOS
KRIS ASHTON is an Australian author best known for his tales of horror and dark speculative fiction. He has published three novels, more than thirty short stories, and is also a respected journalist. He lives in the wilds of southwestern Sydney with his wife, two children, and a slightly mad boxer dog.
JOHN LEE CLARK is the author, most recently, of Where I Stand (Handtype Press, 2014). His essays and poems have appeared in diverse publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, McSweeney’s, Poetry, The Seneca Review, Sign Language Studies, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He lives in Hopkins, Minnesota, with the artist and author Adrean Clark, and their three sons. [johnleeclark.com]
MICHAEL R. COLLINGS—educator, literary scholar and critic, poet, novelist, essayist, columnist, reviewer, and editor—has explored science fiction, fantasy, and horror for three decades. He has been nominated three times for the Bram Stoker Award® (Horror Writers Association) for nonfiction and for poetry and was recently named a World Horror Convention Grand Master. Retired from Pepperdine University, he lives in Idaho.
WILLY CONLEY of Hanover, Maryland, is a professor of Theatre and Dance at Gallaudet University. He is an award-winning, internationally produced playwright whose writings have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals. He has a novel, The Deaf Heart, and a book of plays, Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays.
BOBBY COX is from lush Washington State and now lives in San Francisco with Joanne Yee. He read voraciously as a child and has been writing since high school. He works as a developer at the University of California, Berkeley. “Rui’s Story” is Bobby and Joanne’s first collaboration: Bobby wrote while Joanne created. Language deprivation is real and has a devastating impact on Deaf children worldwide.
DANIEL CROSBY was born deaf in 1988, and he has been a sci-fi fan for about as long. He grew up mainstreamed. In the late ‘90s, several events happened almost simultaneously: he learned ASL at deaf camp, he got a cochlear implant, and he discovered the Internet. Today Daniel spends most of his free time reading sci-fi, tinkering with computers, and riding his bicycle. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
MARSHA GRAHAM is a retired attorney who co-authored a workbook on passing the essay portion of the bar. She’s written for newspapers, created technical manuals, and been published in a legal magazine. She blogs, guest blogs, is a public speaker, and edits for a fiction author. Her first blog was on the trials and tribulations of hearing loss. She’s been published in other venues, including the Bridges Anthology of the East Texas Writers Guild.
KRISTEN HARMON has published fiction, creative nonfiction, and academic essays in literary magazines, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, literary anthologies, and edited chapter collections. She is a professor of English at Gallaudet University. She and her colleague, Jennifer Nelson, have co-edited two collections of prose writing by Deaf Americans with Gallaudet University Press (1830-1930 and 1980-2010). She is the series editor of Gallaudet University Press’s Classics in Deaf Studies and has edited and written the introduction for volumes in the series.
CHRISTOPHER JON HEUER is the author of Bug: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution and All Your Parts Intact: Poems. His short stories and poetry have appeared in many anthologies and periodicals. He is a professor of English at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.
LILAH KATCHER’s work has appeared in Under a Shared Umbrella: Tales of Synchronicity and Happenstance, The Buff and Blue, and The Gallaudet Link. In June 2014, she did a poetry residency at The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota (Deaf Artists Residency, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts). Lilah is an MFA student at American University where she is also the Nonfiction Editor for FOLIO.
DAVID LANGFORD has been publishing and writing about SF since 1975. Novels include The Space Eater and The Leaky Establishment; there are many collections of magazine reviews and criticism. Langford’s 29 Hugo awards span several categories: Fanzine and Semiprozine for the newsletter Ansible (1979-current), Short Story for “Different Kinds of Darkness” (2000) and Related Work for the online Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with John Clute and others). He has always had hearing problems. [ansible.uk]
RAYMOND LUCZAK is the author and editor of 19 books. His most recent titles include The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories and The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips. His Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit Contest 2006. His work has been nominated seven times for a Pushcart Prize. A playwright, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [raymondluczak.com]
A. M. MATTE, an award-winning writer, was first published at the age of 11, and was a produced playwright by the age of 12. Recent publications include short stories in literary magazines Virages and Ancrages and collections Where Pigeons Roost and Ce que l’on divulgue. A. M. Matte’s writing is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. [ammatte.ca]
BRIGHID MEREDITH enjoys a grim story. She loves watching characters evolve into villains, and she believes that the only difference between a hero and a scrub are circumstances—circumstances that can be tweaked until the would-be hero becomes an axe-murdering psychopath. After reading her work, some readers may be surprised to learn that Brighid is happily married to the woman of her dreams, and that she has four wonderful children whom she loves dearly. It’s just that her passion is dark.
KRISTEN RINGMAN is a deaf writer, wanderer, and mother. She writes multi-cultural lyrical fiction and poetry inspired by her persistent wanderings to far-off places. She is the author of I Stole You: Stories from the Fae (Handtype Press) and Makara: a novel (Handtype Press), a Lambda Literary finalist in Debut Fiction, and the editor of Everyday Haiku: an anthology (Wandering Muse Press). She received her MFA from Goddard College. [kristenringman.com]
MAVERICK SMITH is a D/deaf, queer, Trans, disabled, non-binary settler-Canadian who tackles themes of equity and social justice in their writing. Maverick is honored to be included in this anthology. Previously, their poetry and prose has been published in QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology and Brave Boy World: A Trans Man Anthology. In 2016, Maverick was a featured author at Naked Heart: An LGBTQ Festival of Words which was presented by Glad Day Bookshop.
TONYA MARIE STREMLAU always wanted to be a writer, teacher, and mother, and she somehow ended up as all three. She lives in the metro Washington, D.C. area where she is raising twins, teaching English at Gallaudet University, and writing. Tonya became deaf from spinal meningitis during elementary school. She enjoys indoor rock climbing and cooking, particularly Cajun/Creole dishes to keep her from missing her hometown of New Orleans too much.
JACOB WARING aspires to be a journalist, creative writer and is an avid reader. He was the Editor-in-Chief of The Voice, Norwalk Community College’s student newspaper. “The Tale of Two Prodigies” is the first of his short stories to be published. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He one day hopes to inspire change in the world through his written works and journalistic endeavors.
JOANNE YEE is a native San Franciscan from the heart of the Mission. She experienced growing up in a mixed SEE/Oral/PSE mainstreamed environment. Later, she grew to express herself through ASL learned from the Deaf community. She now works in the same elementary school that she attended as a student. She is passionate about Deaf children; helping them grow with visual play and expression.
KELSEY M. YOUNG, a semi-native of Colorado, graduated from Gallaudet University in 2013 with a BA in English. She grew up mainstreamed and is now bilingual in both English and ASL. Kelsey currently lives in the greater Denver area and is working on getting more of her writing out there.
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Also available from Handtype Press
You might get stolen too.
In these wide-ranging stories told from the perspectives of a Thai ghost, an Irish fairy trapped in a dog’s body, a crow f
ae, an Icelandic birch tree elf, a dream thief, and other shapeshifting creatures, Kristen Ringman examines whether these fae would love a human or kill them after a close look into their hearts.
I Stole You: Stories from the Fae by Kristen Ringman
116 pages. 5x7 paperback.
Print ISBN: 978-1-941960-04-2
handtype.com
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