DANIELLE PAIGE is the New York Times bestselling author of the Dorothy Must Die series, the Stealing Snow series, and the graphic novel Mera: Tidebreaker. In addition to writing young adult books, she works in the television industry, where she’s received a Writers Guild of America Award and was nominated for several Daytime Emmys. She is a graduate of Columbia University and currently lives in New York City.
REBECCA ROANHORSE is a Nebula and Hugo Award–winning speculative fiction writer and the recipient of the 2018 Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her short fiction has also been a finalist for the Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. She is the author of the Sixth World series, which includes Trail of Lightning (selected as an Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Library Journal, and NPR best book of 2018, and a Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award finalist) and Storm of Locusts. Her middle grade novel, Race to the Sun, is part of the Rick Riordan Presents imprint. She also penned Resistance Reborn as part of the Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker series.
Her short fiction can be found in Apex Magazine, New Suns, The Mythic Dream, Hungry Hearts, and various other anthologies. Her nonfiction can be found in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation (Macmillan). She lives in northern New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and pups. Find more at rebeccaroanhorse.com and on Twitter @RoanhorseBex.
KAREN STRONG is the author of Just South of Home. A graduate of the University of Georgia, Karen is a STEM advocate and worked in the information technology industry for several years as a software engineer, systems analyst, and technical writer. She now spends her early mornings writing fiction. You can visit her online at karen-strong.com.
ASHLEY WOODFOLK has loved reading and writing for as long as she can remember. She graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor of arts in English and works in children’s book publishing. She writes from a sunny Brooklyn apartment, where she lives with her cute husband and her cuter dog. Ashley is the author of The Beauty That Remains and When You Were Everything.
IBI ZOBOI is the New York Times best-selling author of two novels for young adults, Pride and American Street, a finalist for the National Book Award; as well as My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, her middle grade debut, and a forthcoming biography for young readers about science fiction pioneer Octavia Butler. She also edited the anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Ibi holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives with her family in New Jersey.