Author Interviews

Pooja shares her query journey and how she became represented by a literary agent, the importance of cardamom in bringing back memories of Mumbai, and her writer-in-residence at Weymouth Center.

Tristan describes his Poetics PhD at University of Buffalo, his relationship to academia, his Strange Horizons review series, how to grow the readership for speculative poetry, and revealing who the Asteroid Miner is.

Elena examines their work focusing on trauma and body horror, escaping a cult, their debut from Ghost City Press, working with an anti-literary magazine, being part of the Shanghai writing community, and dark storytelling.

P.A. delves into formative moments in her writing career, her grasp of online self-promotion, being the first Chilean nominee for a Nebula Award, full-time writing, and where the speculative community will go from here.

Akis researches traumas that stop people from being themselves, his Radon story's central Ship of Theseus metaphor, the meaning writing gives life, and his upcoming cosmic horror chapbook, Crooked Gods.

H.A. scrutinizes his relationship to word generators, horrible customer service jobs, what music he writes, how to find focus as a writer, the value of dream journals, and ways for the average person to fight fascism.