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José Pablo Iriarte
José Pablo Iriarte is a Cuban-American writer and teacher who lives in Central Florida. José’s fiction can be found in magazines such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, and others, and has been featured in best-of lists compiled by Tangent Online, Featured Futures, iO9, and Quick Sip Reviews, and on the SFWA Nebula Award Recommended Reading List. Jose’s novelette, “The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births,” was a Nebula Award Finalist and was long-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award. Learn more at www.labyrinthrat.com, or follow José on Twitter @labyrinthrat.
Lawrence M. Schoen
Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, is a past Astounding, Hugo, and Nebula, nominee, twice won the Cóyotl award for best novel, founded the Klingon Language Institute, and occasionally does work as a hypnotherapist specializing in authors’ issues.
His science fiction includes many light and humorous adventures of a space-faring stage hypnotist and his alien animal companion. Other works take a very different tone, exploring aspects of determinism and free will, generally redefining the continua between life and death. Sometimes he blurs the funny and the serious. Lawrence lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and their dog.
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is a Sri Lankan science fiction author (Numbercaste, The Inhuman Race, The Slow Sad Suicide) and data scientist. He is a senior researcher at the Data, Algorithms and Policy team at LIRNEasia, a nonprofit think tank. He co-founded Watchdog, a fact-checking organization, where he spends much of his time digging into misinformation. He is also a Nebula Award finalist with a five-book deal from HarperCollins. He built and operates OSUN, a set of literary experiments using OpenAI technology to test a human+AI collaboration in art.
R.R. Virdi is a two-time Dragon Award finalist and a Nebula Award finalist. He is the author of two urban fantasy series, The Grave Report and The Books of Winter; the LitRPG/portal fantasy series Monster Slayer Online; and the author of a space western/scifi series Shepherd of Light. He has worked in the automotive industry as a mechanic, in retail, and in the custom gaming computer world. He’s an avid car nut with a special love for American classics.
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She has won three Nebula Awards, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and four British Science Fiction Association Awards, and was a double Hugo finalist for 2019 (Best Series and Best Novella). Her most recent book is Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders, a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court (upcoming July 7th from JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.). Her short story collection Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight is out from Subterranean Press. She lives in Paris.
Jonathan P. Brazee
Jonathan P. Brazee is a retired Marine infantry colonel and now a full-time writer living in North Las Vegas, Nevada. His writing career started in 1978 with “Secession,” a science fiction story published in Labyrinth Magazine, but as a Marine, he published non-fiction in a variety of subjects.
He wrote his first novel, The Few, while stationed in Iraq in 2006. Now, he is a hybrid writer with emphasis on self-published works and has over 55 fiction titles in military science fiction, military fiction, paranormal, and historical fiction.
Jonathan’s undergraduate degree was earned at the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1979), and he attended graduate school at U. S. International University and the University of California, San Diego, earning a masters and doctorate. He is a member of the Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the US. Naval Academy Alumni Association, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Kate Heartfield
Kate Heartfield is the author of the historical fantasy novel Armed in Her Fashion (ChiZine 2018) and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (Tor.com Publishing 2018/2019). She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician’s Workshop, published by Choice of Games. Her fiction has won or been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, Aurora and Crawford awards, and her journalism for a National Newspaper Award. Her novella “The Course of True Love” was published by Abaddon Books in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lackington’s, Podcastle and elsewhere. A former journalist, Kate lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Kelly Robson
Kelly Robson is a Canadian short fiction writer. Her novelette “A Human Stain” won the 2018 Nebula Award, and she has won both the 2019 and 2016 Aurora Awards for best Short Story. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, Astounding, Aurora, and Sunburst Awards. Kelly consults as a creative futurist for organizations such as UNICEF and the Suncor Energy Foundation. After twenty-two years in Vancouver, she and her wife, writer A. M. Dellamonica, now live in downtown Toronto.
Martha Wells
Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads), the Ile-Rien series (including The Death of the Necromancer) as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction. Her most recent fantasy novel is The Harbors of the Sun in 2017, the final novel in The Books of the Raksura series. She has a new series, The Murderbot Diaries, published by Tor.com. She was also the lead writer for the story team of Magic: the Gathering’s Dominaria expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards, an ALA/YALSA Alex Award, two Locus Awards, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. Her books have been published in sixteen languages.
Tomi Adeyemi
Tomi Adeyemi is the #1 Best-Selling and Hugo award-winning author of Children Of Blood And Bone and its sequel, Children Of Virtue And Vengeance. After graduating Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she received a fellowship to study West African mythology, religion, and culture in Salvador, Brazil. It was there that she discovered the inspiration for her debut novel, Children Of Blood And Bone. Children Of Blood And Bone has spent over two years on The New York Times Best Seller list and its film adaptation is currently in active development with Disney’s Fox and Lucasfilms.
When Tomi’s not working on her novels or watching Seventeen and BTS music videos, she can be found teaching creative writing on her website, through workshops, and through her online masterclass: The Writer’s Roadmap.
She was recently named to the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and her website has been named one of the 101 best websites for writers by Writer’s Digest.
Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers, and the Lady Astronaut series. She’s the President of SFWA, part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Uncanny, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi. She lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com.
About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA) was founded in 1965 by the American science fiction author Damon Knight and was originally named Science Fiction Writers of America. In 1991, the name of the organization was changed to Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, although the acronym SFWA was not changed. In 2013, the members of the organization voted to reincorporate in California, effectively beginning a new 501(c)3 public charity. Activities of the old Massachusetts corporation officially merged into the new California corporation as of July 1st, 2014. Today, SFWA is home to over 2000 authors, artists, and
allied professionals, and is widely recognized as one of the most effective non-profit writers’ organizations in existence. Learn more about SFWA at sfwa.org; you can also follow SFWA on Facebook and on Twitter @sfwa.
About the Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards, presented annually at the SFWA Nebula Conference, recognize the best works of science fiction and fantasy published in the United States as selected by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The first Nebula Awards were presented in 1966.
The Nebula Awards include four fiction awards, a game writing award, the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. SFWA also administers the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, the Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
For more information, visit nebulas.sfwa.org/nebula-conference.