The Mythic Dream

About Amal El-MohtarCarlos HernandezIndrapramit DasJeffrey FordJohn ChuKat HowardLeah CypessSarah Gailey

Dominik Parisien is an editor poet and writer. He has worked on several anthologies with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer including The Time Travelers Almanac Sisters of the Revolution and The Bestiary. He is the editor for Clockwork Canada an anthology of Canadian steampunk and the coeditor of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales and Mythic Dream along with Navah Wolfe. Dominik is also the poetry editor for Postscripts to Darkness and was an editorial assistant for Weird Tales. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons Uncanny Magazine Shock Totem Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and other venues. Navah Wolfe is a Hugo Awardnominated editor at Saga Press and the coeditor of The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales and Mythic Dream along with Dominik Parisien. She was previously an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers where she worked on many bestselling books including some that have won awards such as the Printz Honor The Pura Belpré Award The Pen/Faulkner Award The Stonewall Award the Lambda Literary Award and the Schneider Family Award. Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning author editor and critic. Her short story Seasons of Glass and Iron won the Hugo Nebula and Locus awards and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Sturgeon Aurora and Eugie Foster awards. She is the author of The Honey Month a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey and contributes criticism to NPR Books and The New York Times. Her fiction has most recently appeared on Tor.com and Uncanny Magazine and in anthologies such as The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories and The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. She is presently pursuing a PhD at Carleton University and teaches creative writing at the University of Ottawa. She can be found online at @Tithenai. Kat Howards short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award anthologized in best of and annual best of collections and performed on NPR. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Roses and Rot and the Alex Awardwinning An Unkindness of Magicians. She is also the writer of the Books of Magic series set in the Sandman Universe. She lives in New Hampshire and you can find her on twitter at @KatWithSword. T. Kingfisher also known as Ursula Vernon is the author and illustrator of many projects including the webcomic Digger which won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story and the Mythopoeic Award. Her novelette The Tomato Thief won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and her short story Jackalope Wives won the Nebula Award for Best Story. She is also the author of the bestselling Dragonbreath and the Hamster Princess series of books for children. Find her online at RedWombatStudio.com. Seanan McGuire is the author of Every Heart a Doorway the October Daye urban fantasy series the InCryptid series and several other works both standalone and in trilogies. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. Rebecca Roanhorse is speculative fiction writer and Nebula Hugo and Sturgeon Award Finalist. She is also a 2017 Campbell Award Finalist for Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. Her novel Trail of Lightning is the first book in the Sixth World series followed by Storm of Locusts in 2019. She lives in northern New Mexico with her husband daughter and pug. Find more at RebeccaRoanhorse.com and follow her on Twitter at @RoanhorseBex.