Orlando Ortega-Medina nació en Los Ángeles, hijo de inmigrantes cubanos. Estudió Literatura Inglesa en la UCLA y obtuvo un Doctorado en Derecho por la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad…
Anthony Horowitz es uno de los escritores más prolíficos y exitosos del Reino Unido, único en su actividad tanto en ficción para adultos como para jóvenes, televisión, teatro y periodismo. Varias de…
Tochi Onyebuchi es el autor de Goliath, finalista de los Premios Locus y Dragon; la novela juvenil Beasts Made of Night, ganadora del Premio Ilube Nommo a la Mejor Novela de Ficción Especulativa de un…
Michael Seth Starr cubrió la televisión en el New York Post como reportero, columnista, crítico y editor durante más de 28 años. Ha escrito una filmografía de Peter Sellers y biografías de Don Rickles…
Erin Crosby Eckstine es autora de ficción histórica especulativa, ensayos personales y cualquier otra obra que le apetezca. Nacida en Montgomery, Alabama, Eckstine creció entre el sur y Los Ángeles…
Cindy Mediavilla, exprofesora de la escuela de bibliotecología y bibliotecaria pública, es actualmente autora y académica independiente. Se jubiló de la Biblioteca Estatal de California y del…
Kate Maruyama creció leyendo y alimentándose del cine en un pequeño pueblo de Nueva Inglaterra. Es autora de The Collective, Harrowgate y Bleak Houses. Escribe, enseña, cocina y come en Los Ángeles…
Ava Morgyn creció enamorándose de los personajes equivocados en las historias equivocadas, y luego estudió Escritura Inglesa y Retórica en la Universidad de St. Edward. Es una amante de la brujería…
Karen Rigby es la autora de Chinoiserie, ganadora del Premio de Poesía Sawtooth en 2011. Becaria de literatura del Fondo Nacional para las Artes, sus poemas se han publicado en revistas como The…
Tras su salto a la fama culinaria en el programa Masterchef de la BBC, Orlando Murrin se convirtió en editor de la revista BBC Good Food antes de fundar una posada gastronómica en el suroeste de…
Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022, Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...
