Canadian novelist Karin Lowachee’s experiences have spanned the Western hemisphere. She was born in South America and raised in Canada. Her time spent working in the Arctic greatly influenced her most recent The Gaslight Dogs, as did her love of the Wild West, Victoriana, and Inuit culture.
In 2001, [...]

Australian fiction writer Angela Slatter has two beautiful story collections out, Sourdough & Other Stories (Tartarus Press [UK]) and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications). They are beautiful inside and out — both the stories that make up the books and the books themselves.
Slatter’s stories are [...]

Altered Fluid is a speculative fiction critique group that includes writers such as N. K. Jemisin, Matthew Kressel, and Saladin Ahmed.
Altered Fluid is the story of a creative writing class that grew into much more. It’s also the story of Terry Bisson’s generosity toward and respect for his students, who wanted to continue working together [...]

Scott Eagle grew up in Winston-Salem, NC. He now lives in Greenville, NC and serves as the assistant director of the School of Art and Design at Eastern Carolina University. Eagle is a southerner. Yet, there is nothing overtly southern in his paintings.
Imagine Flannery O’Connor on LSD without the Catholicism [...]

Born in Ireland, raised in Alabama, Caitlín Kiernan now lives in Rhode Island. Each of these evocative locales has influenced her science fiction and dark fantasy novels and short stories. An early interest in paleontology, archaeology, and snakes led her to a career in paleontology and teaching.  
A love of [...]

Elizabeth Bear’s first novel, Hammered, launched the Jenny Casey series and Bear’s career as an award-winning novelist. With each new novel and each new series, Bear’s writing continues becomes impossibly richer, brasher and more stunning. Her worlds are breath-taking and her characters as real as bone and steal.
These [...]

Reviewers call Marly Youmans’ work angelic, beautiful, magnetic, wonderful and immersive. And it is all those things. She is praised for her boundless creativity and her uncanny ability to surprise even her most dedicated fans over and over again. She has often been referred to as a best kept [...]

A simple walk, rich with impending doom. A chance encounter, taut with peculiar familiarity. A main character whose back-story drips into the surface action with maddeningly beautiful precision and poignancy.
Last month, N. K. Jemisin’s short story "Non-Zero Probabilities," was nominated as a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award. A well-deserved honor.
"N. [...]

Kij Johnson didn’t really want to be thought of as "a tentacle-porn girl," but she knew her story, "Spar," worked as a story so she sent it off. 
Last month, "Spar" was nominated as a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Awards in the short story category.
"This is a story I [...]

Over the past twenty-five years, Jeffrey Ford has earned a reputation for being one of the best writers working today. His short stories and novels collect tales from a wild and unique imagination steered by a craftsmen’s eye for narrative and prose. His fiction could stand as comfortable next to Jonathan [...]