The Eightfold Path

About Charles JohnsonSteven Barnes

Steven Barnes is the New York Times bestselling NAACP Image Awardwinning author of more than 30 novels. Nominated for Nebula and Hugo awards writer of the Emmy-winning A Stitch in Time episode of The Outer Limits and winner of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Award Barnes is a pioneering Afrofuturist writer and one of the most honored voices in the field. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife British Fantasy Awardwinning novelist Tananarive Due. Barnes has taught and lectured at UCLA USC University of Washington Mensa Pasadena JPL the Smithsonian Museum the University of North Carolina and many others. His most recent publication is Twelve Days (Tor 2017). Dr. Charles Johnson is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington and author of 23 books. He is a novelist philosopher essayist literary scholar short-story writer cartoonist illustrator and an author of childrens literature screenplays and teleplays. A MacArthur Fellow Johnson has received a 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature a 1990 National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage a 1985 Writers Guild Award for his PBS teleplay Booker the 2016 W.E.B. Du Bois Award at the National Black Writers Conference and many others. The Charles Johnson Society at the American Literature Association was founded in 2003. In November 2016 Pegasus Theater in Chicago debuted its play adaptation of Middle Passage titled Rutherfords Travels. Johnsons most recent publications are The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling (Scribner 2016) and his fourth short story collection Night Hawks (Scribner 2018). He lives in Seattle Washington. Bryan Christopher Moss was born and raised in Columbus Ohio. At the age of 18 he began working professionally on storyboards and comics while founding and creating a T-shirt company Strange Things. His commercial clients include Cirque du Soleil Marvel Comics Sprite and a partnership with the Greater Columbus Arts Council. In addition to his freelancing and contractual projects Moss is an educator. He has collaborated with the likes of Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio State University the Columbus Museum of Art and the Columbus College of Art and Design. He curated installed and even showed his own work in his latest exhibition at King Arts Complex The Black Panther: Celebrating 50+ Years of Black Superheroes. In 2020 Columbus Alive named Moss as the citys Best Comic Book Artist. He was also recently named an artist-in-residency at the prestigious Aminah Robinson House in Columbus Ohio.