Short Stuff

An editor and award-winning author, Alysia Constantine was also a professor at an art college. Before that, she was a baker and cook for a caterer and before that, she was a poet. She is the author of Sweet and Olympia Knife.

Julia Ember currently lives in Seattle with her wife and their city menagerie of pets with literary names. She is the author of The Seafarer's Kiss and The Navigator's Touch published by Interlude Press. The duology was heavily influenced by Julia's postgraduate work in Medieval Literature at the University of St Andrews. The Seafarer's Kiss was named a "Best Queer Book of 2017" by Book Riot, and was a finalist in the Speculative Fiction category of the Bisexual Book Awards. Her upcoming novel, Ruinsong, will be published by Macmillan Kids (FSG) in Fall 2020. Julia also writes scripts for games, and is the author of several published novellas and short stories.

Kate Fierro spent ten years translating, editing and reviewing other people's words before making an impulse decision to write down some of her own. She hasn't been able to stop ever since. Kate lives in Europe and is bilingual, with more love for her adopted language than her native one. her debut novel, Love Starved was published by Interlude Press in 2015.

Jude Sierra is a Latinx poet, author, academic and mother working toward her PhD in Writing and Rhetoric, looking at the intersections of Queer, Feminist and Pop Culture Studies. Her novels include A Tiny Piece of Something Greater (Foreword INDIES Finalist, 2019), What it Takes (Starred Review, Publishers Weekly), and Idlewild, a contemporary LGBTQ romance set in Detroit's renaissance which was named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016.

Longtime friends and writing partners Tom Wilinsky and Jen Sternick's debut novel, Snowsisters (Duet Books, 2018) was the recipient of and finalist for multiple YA fiction awards, including the Foreword INDIES, the Feathered Quill, and the NYC Big Book Awards. Tom lives in New York with his partner and the world's most beloved orange tabby cat, Newky. Jen lives in Rhode Island with her husband, two kids and a cranky seven-toed cat named Sassy.