Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com SF/F/H magazine, Ignyte & Locus Award winning Submission Grinder tool for writers, Long List Anthology. https://ko-fi.com/diabolicalplots
Kengo Nelson @kengonelson.bsky.social 18+ only | gay romance writer and desert cactus | icon by @rnarccus.art
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associate editor @bafflingmag.bsky.social
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social Author of HENCH and VILLAIN. She/her. Spec fic, videogames, heavy metal, horror, MMA, comics, TTRPGs, LARP. CanLit Tank Girl. Extremely unlikely. Rep'd by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid.
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Jotham Austin, II PhD @jomega22.bsky.social Research Scientist | Sci-Fi Author | Co-host of Rabbit Hole of Research Podcast | Chicago Writers Association Board Member | Rep’d by Kat Kerr of DMLA.
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Rhiannon Rasmussen @charibdys.bsky.social dark specfic writer ☆ insectigoth ☆ illustrative printmaker ☆ print director & technician of eisner-winning comics ☆ icon by MulchMouth ☆ opinions my own ☆ 日本語OK
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Mike Underwood @mikerunderwood.bsky.social They/he. 3x Gold ENNIE winner. Trans & non-binary Midwest Princex.
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Game designer (Daggerheart, Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart, Candela Obscura, etc.)
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Punamu’kwati’jk|Dartmouth (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Baffling Magazine @bafflingmag.bsky.social Website: www.bafflingmag.com
A publication from Neon Hemlock.
Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social Small press specializing in horror, sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, zines, poetry, and reprints. Voted best small press by our EIC's mom. We used to be From Beyond Press. agitapublishing.com
Will Sobel @wlsobel.bsky.social he/they | game designer (astro knights, betrayal 3E) | atomic number 83 | SFFH writer | unprofessional cook https://linktr.ee/wlsobel
angelica @angelicachong.bsky.social editor @ orbit books | she/her
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Nebula, Sturgeon, and Hugo finalist. Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈
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Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social He/him gay trans guy, lead editor at Paizo (Pathfinder and Starfinder), vampire enthusiast, union member, zinemaker, animal artist. May contain bears. Views are my own. #aviarts for my art.
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Lorian Merriman @lorian.bsky.social they/them · transmasc comics doer and author (YA and Adult)
MAELSTROM: A PRINCE OF EVIL is available now!
repped by Jennifer Azantian
webcomics/etc: The Otherknown, Fall Until Summer, For a Horse and Horseman
longlostlorian.com
James T. Harding @empowermint.bsky.social Liable to tweet about queer and green politics, books (SFF), Edinburgh, TypeScript, and my cats. Former publisher now working as a software engineer. He/him
Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine and more | Bi | She/her 🐩
cindyphanauthor.com
Author photo by Rosena Fung
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social They pay brisk money for this crap?
MAKE ME BETTER and NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH on sale now
Hellraiser, Eat the Rich, Echo Wife, Spread Me @ your local bookstore and comic shop
khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social An Ignyte and Shirley Jackson award-winning magazine and podcast of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors & artists. Issue 6.2 is out now!
https://linktr.ee/khoreomag
Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.
Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social She/her. Nebula&Hugo-nommed queer Bengali lady geek/gamer/editor/writer/dice&jewelry maker. ADHD. Cat mom. Too many hobbies; always hungry.
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A.P. Thayer @apthayer.bsky.social 🪱 Los Angeles | Horror
🪱 Agent: Helen Lane at Ki Agency
🪱 pre-order my debut, TAPEWORM (out 8/18/26)
Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com I write novels, games and stories. Coming in 2026: MERCUTIO and THE SWORDMASTER. Writer at CHEO Foundation (my views are my own). Former journalist. From Manitoba, now in Ottawa. She/her. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️🌈
https://kateheartfield.com
Dominique Dickey @domsdickey.bsky.social Nebula Award-winning fiction and ttrpg hooligan || creative director of Sly Robot Games || associate editor at Monte Cook Games || they/them || keep up with my work at dominiquedickey.com
Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/cypayseur
Locus and Ignyte Award winning co-editor of We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Hugo and Ignyte Award finalist critic/fan writer. Destroyer of Science Fiction. Bisexual all day. He/Him They/Them
Izzy Wasserstein @izzyxen.bsky.social Professor, writer of speculative fiction and poetry. Queer & trans. THESE FRAGILE GRACES, THIS FUGITIVE HEART is out now!. All views my own. she/her. 🌈🚀
Flights of Foundry @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social An annual virtual convention for speculative creators and fans, put on by Dream Foundry! Global, virtual, pay what you can
Sept 18-20 2026
https://flights-of-foundry.org/
Stelliform Press @stelliform.press Award-winning SFFH & literary books engaging with environmental justice. Now: THE OTHER SHORE, THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. www.stelliform.press.
Jason A. Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social Queer SFF Writer. Clarion West '23.📍Philly
Assoc. Ed. @ Uncharted Mag
https://linktr.ee/jabartles.author
Aun-Juli @aunjuli.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. 1/2 of Riddle’s Tea Shoppe. Assistant Editor @ Baffling Mag | Stories in khōréō (BSFA LL), Apparition Lit, Glitter + Ashes, LSQ | 💖 she/her
Psychopomp @psychopomp.com Publisher of otherworldly fiction @ Psychopomp.com
Publisher of death-focused magazine: @TheDeadlands.com
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
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Megan Chee @megancheewrites.bsky.social 🇸🇬 sci-fi & fantasy writer. Debut science-fantasy novel THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FALLING WORLDS coming 2027 from Daphne Press (UK) & Bindery Books (US)
Website: https://meganchee.carrd.co/
Maria Dong @mariadongwrites.bsky.social (She/Her) Author of LIAR, DREAMER, THIEF and PSYCHOPOMP. AVIARY coming April 7, 2026 from Severn House.
http://mariadong.com/link-tree/
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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social Writer (SFWA), translator, humanist, general odd duck • 🇨🇦n in 🇨🇴 • avoids pronouns, they/them if key 🌈🌌
Rev Abuelite Héctor Octavio [con acento] believes in you @mexicanity.bsky.social NB queer Mexican immigrant. Writer, bilingüe, occasional voice actor, compassion advocate, cooks ok. Curiose. I will officiate your queer unions.
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Ruth Nineke @ruthnineke.co "I live a very different life from all of you."
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Hardline Feminist. Argue with your mother.
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Wil @wilralston.bsky.social Celebrity Hair & Makeup Artist. Writer. Co Creator of #Webtoon Vessel: A Nocturnal Realm Universe Series. Co- Host of @justkeepwriting.bsky.social
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk Queer political geek; proud social justice warrior, proud trans ally. Queering Wikipedia as chair of @wmlgbt.org; trustee @fasttrackcymru.bsky.social. ex-ORG & mySociety. Dysgwr. My opinions, not my employer’s. he/him
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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com Insufferable Morning Queer - She/they
Author of THE CHRONICLES OF GHADID trilogy (queer assassins save the day!)
Shouter of queer sff books.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
fiends🩸🖊️ @0nlyfiends.bsky.social they / ey / he
just a guy writing about vampires, grave robbing, and the rat below the floorboards.
@aoifeleefa.bsky.social <3
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avi burton @aviburton.bsky.social they/he, general words enthusiast • stories in Fantasy Magazine, Escape Pod, & more • www.aviburton.com • free palestine
C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social Writer with stories in FIYAH, BCS, Best American, & more | CW '22 | Ignyte Award Finalist 🔥 | they/them
kelcoleman.com
Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social Bi, Black academic librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25). Stories in Fantasy, Reactor, FIYAH, & more (🔗s on jencbrown.com).
Rep'd by Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency.
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Cherae @clclarkwrites.com SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Eboni Dunbar is drafting.... @ebonidunbar.bsky.social Black, queer #specfic #writer from California. Ignyte award nominated. Novella Author of Stone and Steel. Published in FIYAH literary magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nightlight and more.
Ebonidunbar.com
Bastian Hart @bastianhart.bsky.social queer cryptid of color • ascending to mosshood • weird fiction writer • librarian
graveyardslush.com
Davis Walden @daviswaldeniv.bsky.social Demonic Ryan Gosling | PDX 🏔️| VFX Coord | SD: Nightlight, Victoria’s Lift | Writer: NoSleep Podcast, Wicked Library, ‘Sand Salt Blood,’ ‘Book of Queer Saints Vol. 2’
Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social Stoker nominated horror writer; editor of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈
Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them
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DG @thegilmore.bsky.social Nonfic Editor http://www.thedeadlands.com, @voodoonaut 21’, Wakandan Tech support,Writer, reader
Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social Comics author and illustrator. I've worked on a number of children's book series like: The Cardboard Kingdom, Doodleville, and The Stupendous Switcheroo! (he/him)
SwampYankee @swampyankeecity.bsky.social 
Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.com
Matt 🏳️🌈 @mspencerdraws.bsky.social He/Him || 34 || Trans & Queer ||
Full-Time Freelance Illustrator
Open for Work
http://www.mspencerillustration.com/
mspencerillustration@gmail.com
Courtly Beasts Tarot wips at:
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tamara jerée 🖤 @tamarajeree.com author of lesbian paranormal & gothic fantasy | bookseller by day | represented by Bethany Weaver | they/them
www.tamarajeree.com
art by @northyme.com
FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social #fiyahlitmag
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
D. A. Vorobyov | НЕТ ВОЙНЕ @davorobyov.bsky.social he/him | work in Worlds of Possibility, @strangehorizons, @robodinofiction, @GlitterShipSF | @AlphaWorkshop 2016/17 | @clarionwest 2024 |
Dovie Watson, MD, MSCE, AAHIVS @doviewatson.bsky.social Infectious Disease (PrEP+HIV+STI) Doc & Researcher | MacLean Clinical Ethics Fellow | OKC ➡️ CHI ➡️ PHL | She/her ✊🏾 🏳️🌈 ✊🏾
emily bergslien @eudaemaniacal.bsky.social literal wizard & bookseller. helped write a novella called UNCOMMON CHARM. as an upright gentleman it is embarrassing for you to hold rabbits
Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
@rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com.
Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/
Krystal A. Smith @authorkasmith.bsky.social I write fiction. I crave laughter. She/Her. Sometimes K.A. Smith #LesbianFiction #Sapphic #BlackSpecFic #Speculativefiction 🏳️🌈👩🏾❤️💋👩🏾📚💛
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: NO GODS FOR DROWNING
Sept 15: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Levi Hastings @levihastings.bsky.social Emmy-nominated illustrator. Visual storyteller of #comics, #kidlit, #paleoart and beyond. Emphasis on nature, ecology and queer history. Raging homosexual.🏳️🌈 Probably drawing dinosaurs. 🦕
Shop & Links: https://linktr.ee/levihastingsart
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Kat Weaver @anoteinpink.bsky.social illustrator, writer, parrot butler - birds, fashion, history, ttrpgs - she/her 🏳️🌈🦜
📍saint paul, minnesota
Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me I’m pretty.
https://linktr.ee/megelison
Emma Mieko Candon - THE ARCHIVE UNDYING out now! @emcandon.bsky.social THE ARCHIVE UNDYING (June, 2023)
Wrote a Star War (RONIN, 2021)
escaped academic 4 mediocre robot
she/they
It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social More of a dog person than a people person. Filipino Philadelphian from Wisconsin. Cavite, Philippines.
Poetry Editor @thedeadlands.com 💀
Associate Editor @psychopomp.bsky.social 💀
Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social Games, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is out from Neon Hemlock Press!
Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, Lightspeed, & more! 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social he/him. Canadian SFF author: CATALYST (2022), CASTOFF (2025). Games writer: The Expanse RPG, ICONS. Vice chair of Can*Con. 2500-year-old Time Lord and snake parent. Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at DMLA.
linktr.ee/brandoncrilly
Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com 100% human science fiction, fantasy, & horror writer. Stories galore. Books: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, Alias Space https://kellyrobson.com/books
Trans rights are human rights ffs
she/her in Toronto, Canada
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com 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)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social Your friendly nemesis. BFA & Shirley Jackson Award Winner. BSFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, WFA finalist. Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, & more. ClarionWest '19.
🖤🩶🤍💜 She/Her. Rep: Jessica Friedman @SterlingLordLit
A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social Writer and stuff. They/them
https://azlouise.com/#books
Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Woodworker. www.annleblanc.com
Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apparition Lit.
The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social Your favorite BIPOC SFFH author's favorite award. Celebrating excellence and inclusivity in the genre. Brought to you by L.D. Lewis and Suzan Palumbo. 2025 medallion art (pfp) by Nilah Magruder https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com Award-winning sf/f, erotica and romance writer. Just your typical biracial bigender bisexual. All pronouns valid, she/her for society’s convenience. https://linktr.ee/ceciliatan
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Michael Haynes @michaelhaynes.bsky.social Ardent short story reader and writer. Debut short fiction collection, AT THE INTERSECTION OF LOVE AND DEATH, out now! Codex, SFWA, MWA. Enjoys photography, cooking, and travel.
http://michaelhaynes.info/
M.S. Dean @myrcenedean.bsky.social SFF writer. Stories in Anathema, khōréō, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Fusion Fragment. 🇵🇸 msdean.carrd.co