KATE MARUYAMA is the author of Alterations, The Collective, Bleak Houses, and Harrowgate and her novella Family Solstice was named Best Fiction Book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Magazine. Her short work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and she is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Uncharted Short Story Prize. She served on the working Board for Women Who Submit, and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards. She writes, teaches, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles. Learn more about this versatile author at https://www.katemaruyama.com/
JORDAN ROSENFELD has been a teacher and coach for over 20 years, working with writers to improve their skills in fiction and memoir writing. She has also taught writing at many writing conferences, such as the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, the California Writers’ Club, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and other. With six books on the craft of writing, including the forthcoming The Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in Writing, Rosenfeld is also the author of three novels, most recently Fallout, Women in Red and Forged in Grace, and her work can be found in national publications such as The Atlantic, Mental Floss, The New York Times, Pacific Standard, The Rumpus, Scientific American, and many others. Learn more about her writing workshops and coaching at https://jordanrosenfeld.net/
SUMIKO SAULSON is a cartoonist, poet, science-fiction, fantasy and horror writer, and the editor of Black Magic Women, Scry of Lust and 100 Black Women in Horror Fiction. Their works include Solitude, Warmth, The Moon Cried Blood, Happiness and Other Diseases, Somnalia, Insatiable, Ashes and Coffee, and Things That Go Bump In My Head. They wrote and illustrated the comics Mauskaveli, Dooky, and graphic novels Dreamworlds and Agrippa. They write for the SEARCH Magazine and the San Francisco Bayview column Writing While Black. They are an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror, whose latest novel Happiness and Other Diseases, is available on Mocha Memoirs Press. Learn more at https://sumikosaulson.com/
