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Interviews and profiles
Featured Authors
A full interview, a bibliography, and the publishers each author actually worked with — cross-linked into the directory.
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Interviews and profiles
A full interview, a bibliography, and the publishers each author actually worked with — cross-linked into the directory.
Urban fantasy · Dark fantasy · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge fantasy writer and MFA graduate preparing his debut novel, Gods and Monsters, with a boutique small press.
Young adult · Contemporary romance · British Columbia, Canada
Canadian YA and contemporary-romance writer whose 2024 debut, The Last Love Song, launched with independent publisher Blackstone.
Gothic horror · Historical fantasy · Speculative fiction · Halifax/Kjipuktuk, Nova Scotia
A Canadian writer whose debut novel blends queer gothic horror with historical fantasy set in 1860s Nova Scotia.
Science fiction · Techno-thriller · New Zealand
A New Zealand writer of dystopian science fiction and techno-thrillers, and one of the 2025 New Voices of Aotearoa.
Speculative fiction · Queer fiction · Climate fiction · United States
A trans and disabled U.S. speculative-fiction author writing queer fantasy, dark speculative short fiction, and climate fiction.
Children's fiction · Picture books · Texas
A tribally enrolled Choctaw Nation citizen, children’s librarian, and Texas-based author of chapter books and picture books.
Women's fiction · Romance · Germany
A Puerto Rican-origin writer living in Germany, writing women’s fiction and contemporary romance about belonging and culture.
Afrosurrealism · Speculative fiction · Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi-based Afrosurrealist and futurist storyteller working across short fiction, audio, and the debut novella & This Is How to Stay Alive.