The writers
62 Black and white published authors featured with our club — with their biographies, book counts and websites.
1 published book
Sandy Moonias is a poet, screenwriter and educator whose creative work has appeared in Canadian and American anthologies. Her writing explores healing, resilience, nature and the human spirit. Her screenplays Ice Fishing Tale, Alternative Education and Transformation received finalist recognition at the 2024 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.
3 published books
Samuel Colabufo is a native Central New Yorker, lifelong reader and novelist. A graduate of Le Moyne College and Syracuse University, he taught high school in Syracuse for more than 25 years. His published works include the paranormal novella New Day, the literary novel Lucky Struck and the 2026 thriller The Mitigator.
3 published books
Tina Marie Ray is a devoted Christian, author and advocate for moral and spiritual renewal. Her writing spans multiple genres: two inspirational poetry collections, the novel Crossing Enemy Lines One Nation Under God — which received five-star reviews — and America's Moral Compass: The Beginning of Sorrows, a faith-centered reflection on current events and biblical prophecy. Tina and her husband, Gary, have been married for 33 years; she enjoys time with family, exploring nature and meaningful conversations about faith and life.
1 published book
Ivy Garces is a Christian author celebrating ten years of her writing journey. Her book The Vessel: A Journey of Faith, Healing, and Spiritual Awakening speaks to every heart that has been broken by life and rebuilt by God — a testimony of healing, restoration and the quiet work of spiritual awakening.
2 published books
Alfred Smith is a father and rowing coach from Erie, Pennsylvania. He found himself telling stories from a young age, and then made the logical step into running Dungeons and Dragons games when he was only 9 years old. He has settled in Erie, Pennsylvania for the foreseeable future with his wife, Emily, his daughter, Hope, and their cat, Lord Squeaky. Alfred has run the Parsec SFF Short Story Contest since 2020. He has been published in Deep Magic Ezine, and several anthologies from Air and Nothingness Press.
3 published books
Andrea Monticue lives with her wife and their dog in rural Oregon, where she designs spaceships, imagines alien worlds, practices her sword and archery skills, and studies languages, anthropology, math, and music. She’s not very good at any of it, but keeps practicing anyway. She has retired from her life as an interstellar spy and occasionally writes about her adventures and submits them to clueless publishers. Andrea can be found at Memoirs of an Earthling.
3 published books
Arasibo Campeche is originally from Puerto Rico with a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics. He writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror that's often inspired by scientific principles. He has several books in progress, but his passion is the short story. His work has appeared in Death in the Mouth Vol. 1, Latinx Screams, Daily Science Fiction, Tales to Terrify, Weirdbook #41, Helios Quarterly Magazine, Dragon Gems (Spring 2023) and Dragon Gems (Fall 2023) anthologies, and several other publications.
1 published book
Barb Bissonette is a retired medical nurse of forty years at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Orillia, Ontario. She completed a mission to Dominican Republic with the Sisters of Charity to work among the people living there. She loved nursing, but has always enjoyed reading and writing. As a child, she would write poetry and short stories. Barb belongs to the Muskoka Authors Association. Her favorite person is — and always will be — Lucy Maud Montgomery, the great Canadian author. Barb has had three novels published with Strategic Book Group: Among Little Faces, A Winter Town, and Leave a Light…
1 published book
BJ Sikes is a 5'6" ape descendant who is inordinately fond of a good strong cup of tea, Doc Marten boots, and fancy dress. She lives with one large cat, two sweet teenagers, and one editor-author, plus an array of chickens in a place very unlike her homeland. Her favorite genre is historical fantasy with themes of a woman’s struggle for agency, but she plays with other genres. She also likes tea, chocolate, cats, and chickens—not necessarily in that order. When she is not playing with words, you might find her mucking about in the garden or making herbal concoctions in the kitchen.
2 published books
Bob Schoonover is a Navy brat, with a Navy pilot father and Navy WAVE mother. He moved frequently as a child until his father retired and settled in Chico, California in the ’60s. After high school in Chico and attending Occidental College, Bob began his own career in the Navy as a Naval Flight Officer trained for P-3 Orion patrol planes (a land-based aircraft conducting anti-submarine warfare missions and search and rescue). He served at permanent duty stations in Hawaii and San Diego with deployments to the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. Bob met and married his wife, also a Navy officer,…
3 published books
Hailing from sunny Sacramento, California, Brian C. E. Buhl is trying to save the world. Formerly enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, Brian now spends most of his time writing software for the solar industry. When he’s not engineering technical solutions, he can sometimes be found playing saxophone with local community bands. Also, he writes science fiction and fantasy.
1 published book
Brian D. Hinson abandoned an unfulfilling career to take up part-time work and visit 40-some countries in the backpacker fashion. His short story, “Disposable Gabriel” in December 2023 Cast of Wonders, made Nerds of a Feather’s recommendation list for the 2024 Hugo award. For more information about Brian, visit briandhinson.com.
3 published books
Brian K. Lowe has been writing since he was fourteen, when he took it up in a sudden burst of sibling rivalry, and wrote a novella which earned him no money, but a fistful of extra credit points in his English class. Since then, he has graduated from UCLA as an English/Creative Writing major, and currently works for an attorney. His short stories have appeared in Escape Pod, Galaxy's Edge, Daily Science Fiction, and many other venues.
1 published book
Bruce Golden has sold more than a hundred short stories published across a score of countries and three dozen anthologies. His recent novella, Monster Town, a satirical take on the world of the hard-boiled detective — one populated by the monsters of old black and white horror movies — is in development as a television series.
1 published book
Curtis Bass has more than twenty-five stories appear in online and print venues including Youth Imagination, Page & Spine, Fabula Argentea, a best of 2020 short story anthology, two horror anthologies, and two upcoming young adult anthologies. Curtis enjoys writing because he can let his mind wander free and never knows where it might end up.
1 published book
Passionate about stories from a young age, Daniel Fliederbaum spent the entirety of their first-grade year too embarrassed of their bad handwriting to pick up a pencil and actually write. When they finally learned about the wonders of digital word processing, they began a life-long love affair with storytelling, spending their elementary, middle, and high school years working on a novel which will hopefully never see the light of day. Now that they have a degree in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho, and are earning their Master of Fine Arts, handwriting is far less of an issue.…
1 published book
Diane De Pisa’s early publications include three articles on Black Elk Speaks, the topic of her doctoral dissertation directed by Scott Momaday at UC Berkeley, and twenty poems in several journals. In 2014-2021 the Berkeley Times carried two serialized and condensed works sequentially: a satirical novel titled As Sour Grapes Ripen and her text for photos of Berkeley in the sixties by her late husband titled “Telegraph and Beyond.” De Pisa’s account of grief and recovery, Love of Finished Years, was published by Wipf and Stock in 2021. Her “Bird Tracks: A Pantoum” won a Poetry Society of…
1 published book
DJ Cockburn funded his unfortunate writing habit through medical research on various parts of the African continent and drinking a lot of coffee. Earlier phases of his life have included teaching unfortunate children and experimenting on unfortunate fish. In between a steady drizzle of rejections, he’s seen a few stories in venues including Apex, Interzone, and Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction for 2014. His website is at cockburndj.wordpress.com and he has occasionally been caught twittering as @DJ\Cockburn.
1 published book
Elaine Isaak writes adventure novels inspired by research subjects like medieval surgery, ancient clockworks, and Byzantine mechanical wonders. Published works include Drakemaster (Guardbridge 2022), The "Dark Apostle" series (DAW), and the “Bone Guard” archaeological thrillers. One recent adventure is the interactive superhero novel Skystrike: Wings of Justice, for Choice of Games. While researching her books, she learned how to hunt with a falcon, clear a building of possible assailants, and pull traction on a broken limb. A former adventure guide, Elaine lives and writes in the Granite…
1 published book
Elaine Midcoh loves reading and writing science fiction short stories. She’s a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, The Writers of the Future contest, and the Cannon Publishing High Caliber Award. Her science fiction stories have appeared in the anthologies, Writers of the Future, Volumes 37 & 39, Compelling Science Fiction Short Stories, and The 2025 Cannon High Caliber Anthology, and in the magazines MetaStellar, Escape Pod, Galaxy’s Edge, and Daily Science Fiction. Before jumping into writing, she worked as a college professor where she spent many happy years teaching…
2 published books
Elyse Russell has been writing since she was seven. She loves stories in all forms. When writing, she tends to stick to short stories and graphic novels, and most of her works are speculative in nature. Elyse has had works accepted with Mermaid's Monthly, Hyphen Punk, Crone Girl's Press, Outcast Press, Markosia, Last Girls Club, and more. Her horror graphic novella, The Fell Witch, is an allegory for postpartum depression and will be released in 2022 with Band of Bards comics. When not writing, Elyse enjoys long naps with her cats, reading, and donuts. Also cheese. Learn more about her works…
1 published book
Emily Wagner is the author of the novel, Go Back, and several others rattling around in her head. She is a former journalist who is always questioning the what-ifs of the world, hence her preference for science fiction and fantasy. She is an alumna of the Taos Toolbox writing workshop and is a two-time honorable mention of the Writers of the Future contest. Emily lives in Baltimore where she teaches PreK/K ESOL at a Title 1 school. In her free time, she enjoys exploring Charm City, making macramé, re-learning piano, and taking walks with her family.
1 published book
Evan Davies has published a number of short stories, all with a penchant for genre-mashing and tonal incongruity. He is currently working on a full length novel. In his free time, Evan is an avid reader, road-tripper, table-top gamer, amateur boxer, and jiu-jitsu practitioner.
4 published books
Flavia was born and raised in Arena, a medieval hill town in Calabria, the ancient "instep" of the Italian Peninsula, and studied Classics and European Literature at the University of Naples. She wrote her first short story when she was 12, and ever since then, writing has been the most important thing she does. When she was 28, she came to live in San Francisco, where she learned English by watching children's television programs with her son Adam, then four years old. She loves English as much as she loves Italian, for different reasons but in the same measure. She writes in English and in…
2 published books
Fred Waiss was born and raised in Colorado. Once he learned the world-expanding skill of reading, he became permanently addicted. At age ten, his father introduced him to science fiction, and Robert Heinlein in particular, which led to his reading science fiction for pleasure almost exclusively for the next ten years. The "almost" means that he also read Tolkien, Howard, De Camp, and others in the fantasy genre. Like so many science fiction fans, he started writing stories as well as reading them. He lives in Wisconsin along with his brother and one adult peculiar dog. When possible, he…
1 published book
Gary Battershell has published speculative fiction in magazines and anthologies for over twenty years. Since 2019, his output has increased significantly. It includes entries in several anthologies, including Imps and Minions, Bodies, and Strangely Funny IX. Magazine publications include stories in The Society of Misfit Stories Presents, The Fifth Di…, and Sci-Fi Lampoon. He is currently working on an Edgar Rice Burroughs-style science fiction novel, tentatively titled Savage World, and awaiting the publication of stories that include another rom-com (this one set against a Cthulhu Mythos…
11 published books
J Dark is a latecomer to the writing profession, but enjoying every moment that life will allow. “The best thing to me is writing a story that someone enjoys. If I've made something fun and entertaining for people, it's a win-win.” J Dark lives with a house full of dreams, three cats, and various friends who occasionally drop by and stay for a while. The author lives in Kansas, where the winds blow all the time, and, if you blink your eyes, the weather changes. You can find out more about the author's work at The Pandemonium.
5 published books
J. Scott Coatsworth writes stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. His writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both), brings a queer energy to his stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. He imagines a world that could be and, in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little. A Rainbow Award-winning author, Scott’s debut novel, Skythane, received two awards and an honorable mention. With his husband, Mark, he…
6 published books
Jay Hartlove is the playwright, director and producer of The Mirror’s Revenge, the musical sequel to the Snow White fable, which had its theatrical run in the San Francisco Bay Area in August 2018 to rave reviews. Jay is also the award-winning author of the urban fantasy "Goddess Rising" Trilogy (Goddess Chosen, Goddess Daughter, and Goddess Rising) and the fantasy romance Mermaid Steel. His stories are filled with conspiracies and the supernatural, gods, dreams, angels, and hidden connections. His creative motto is "Dark Secrets Revealed". He loves to take stories where the reader does not…
1 published book
Jo Miles writes optimistic science fiction and fantasy. Their short fiction has appeared in numerous places, including Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, and Fireside. Jo is a graduate of the Viable Paradise and Taos Toolbox writers’ workshops, and their story “The Longest Season in the Garden of the Tea Fish” in Strange Horizons was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award. Jo lives in Maryland, where they help nonprofits use the internet to save the world, but mostly serve the whims of their two cats. You can find them online at jomiles.com and on Twitter as @josmiles.
1 published book
Joshua Ramey-Renk has been writing and submitting and publishing for over ahem cough years. His fiction work has appeared in DailyScienceFiction.com and a variety of small press anthologies. He loves reader feedback and might be next to you in a café scribbling away in any one of a myriad of notebooks, scrapbooks, and journals. Joshua lives on the San Francisco Peninsula with his wife and two treat-addicted rescue dogs, Roadie and Pepper.
1 published book
Kellyn Solvera worked in China, Japan, and near Washington DC. Kellyn now writes and practices primary care medicine in the Pacific Northwest.
1 published book
Kenzie Leong has a B.A. in English with a focus on creative writing, and have been writing and publishing her work online for over fifteen years. Most of her work can be found on Archive of Our Own under the name PitViperOfDoom.
1 published book
Kevin Beckett lives in a Canadian city that is on some nights colder than the planet Mars. At various points in life, he has been a radio show host, a nightclub DJ, and a music promoter, and he now runs social media & promotion for New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine. His previous works include “AKA The Sinner: Games of Dying Men” and “High Road to Hy-Brasil!” published in Hell Hath No Fury from Pro Se Press. He is working on more journeys with Fiddler Cal.
16 published books
L. A. Jacob (occasionally writing as Jake Logan) has been writing since she could hold a pencil and draw a straight line. She wrote fan fiction before branching out into novels and short stories. After her first book was published, she wrote five more within the span of three years. Interested in magic(k), cards, and divination, She lives in Rhode Island with her son and three cats. She is also the author of Carnival Farm and Real Magic for Writers. You can find out more about L. A. Jacob at her website, lajacob.com.
2 published books
Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist with five patents and a background in AI and Internet R&D. He has published over 40 short stories in such magazines as Nature, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His noir urban fantasy novellas The Demons of Wall Street, The Demons of the Square Mile, and The Demons of Chiyoda are available from Mirror World Publishing. To learn more about the works and world of Laurence Raphael Brothers, you can follow him on Twitter at @lbrothers or visit his website, laurencebrothers.com.
3 published books
Lorna Hopkins Keith, born in Hollywood, California, with a B.A. in Mathematics, has been writing since her teens. Fascinated by both numbers and words, she is also a musician, photographer, and puzzler. Lorna has self-published a science fiction trilogy, attended many science fiction conventions and writing workshops, and has read science fiction most of her life. She grew up in California, lived in Colorado, and moved to Florida with her physical therapist husband, where they live by a lake with a chatty calico cat.
4 published books
M.D. Neu is an international award-winning inclusive queer Fiction Writer with a love for writing and travel. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley, and growing up around technology, he’s always been fascinated with what could be. When M.D. Neu isn’t writing, he works for a non-profit and travels with his biggest supporter and his harshest critic, Eric, his husband of twenty plus years.
6 published books
Mark London Williams wrote the Los Angeles Times best-selling Danger Boy time travel series, among other books and anthology contributions. He covers show business, its content and discontents, as a columnist in Los Angeles. He has taught storytelling at Disney’s Creative Academy, keeps a watchful eye out for Santa Ana winds, and has two grown sons.
1 published book
As one of seven children, it's little wonder that Melissa Buhl's first story concerns itself with witches and witchcraft. Melissa is a voracious reader. When her nose isn't in a book, she works as a sales assistant in the health insurance industry. Melissa quilts, and has been known to play clarinet from time to time. With her husband, Brian, she has raised two beautiful and intelligent children, Bryanna and Christopher.
1 published book
Mia Ram is a fantasy and science fiction writer from North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Metaphorosis Magazine and The NoSleep Podcast.
1 published book
Michael A. Clark has been published in Galaxy’s Edge, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Liquid Imagination, Mystery Weekly Magazine, Gypsum Sound Tales anthologies Colp and Thuggish Itch, Cosmic Horror Magazine, the benefit anthology Burning Love and Bleeding Hearts and Moonlight & Misadventure. His short story, “What You Want”, appears in Dark Matter Magazine, Issue 016. Mike lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and works in industrial automation while spending as much time as he can outdoors. He writes short stories and music because that’s what he does.
1 published book
Michael Allen Rose is a writer, musician, and performer based in Chicagoland. He won the 2021 Best Bizarro Novel Wonderland Award for his book Jurassichrist and has published with a variety of small presses, writing mostly bizarro, horror, and comedy. He also makes music under the name Flood Damage, and hosts the Ultimate Bizarro Showdown at BizarroCon among other events. He likes tea and cats.
1 published book
Michael Thal is a freelance writer and author in Los Angeles, California. Michael began his career in public education. Due to a severe hearing loss, he left his tenured sixth grade teaching assignment to learn the writing craft. Michael has written over 80 articles for magazines like Highlights for Children, Fun for Kidz, Writer’s Digest, and San Diego Family Magazine. His novels include Goodbye Tchaikovsky, The Legend of Koolura, Koolura and the Mystery at Camp Saddleback, Koolura and the Mayans, The Abduction of Joshua Bloom, and The Lip Reader. You can learn more Michael and his works at michaelthal.com.
3 published books
Mikko Rauhala is a bilingual Finnish speculative fiction author. Informed by his master’s degree in intelligent systems, he’s most at home in hard science fiction settings, though he’s not exclusive and likes to cross genres. Whether the subject is steam-powered gnomes or universal quantum suicide, Rauhala enjoys taking an eccentric premise and bringing it to its logical conclusion. As befits a Finn, his plot-driven narrative is often seasoned with a touch of dark, dry humor.
5 published books
Paul S. Moore was born in the Missouri Ozarks, raised in St. Louis, and eventually settled in the sand of central Florida. He calls each of these places home. His inner mix of hillbilly river rat, lowlands daydreamer, sand road hermit, and reader of nineteenth-century history writers form the base of a non-elite education. These roots allow imagination to turn historic events into serendipitous thoughts. Those thoughts organize into stories, and stories become novels. With the remedial help of a good critique group, and the birth of publishing companies that read a manuscript without asking…
1 published book
Philip Brewer’s stories often involve genetic engineering and money — perhaps not surprising, as everyone else in his family is some sort of naturalist and he has a degree in economics. Even before his former employer did him the great kindness of closing the site where he’d been working, giving him the opportunity to become a full-time writer, his stories often involved hard economic times. Philip’s work has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Futurismic, Redstone Science Fiction, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. He speaks Esperanto and uses it for international communication.
2 published books
Rebecca Inch-Partridge wrote the first draft of the Paraxous Star Cluster trilogy when she was fifteen. She never stopped creating the worlds, races and stories; however, as a responsible adult, she did go get a job that paid the bills. She worked as an EMT, a social worker, and an activities director for seniors. For decades, her dream of becoming a professional author took a back seat. Then she almost died from stage four endometriosis. Suddenly, writing wasn’t just something to do in her spare time. It became a way of life. After years of critiquing other author’s work, she became a…
1 published book
Richard Zwicker is a retired English teacher living in Vermont, USA, with his wife and beagle. His short stories have appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Stupefying Stories, and Dragon Gems. Two collections of his work, Walden Planet and other stories and The Reopened Cask and other stories are also available. In addition to reading and writing, he likes to play the piano, jog, and fight the good fight against what he used to call middle age.
1 published book
Robert Bagnall is a past finalist in the Writers of the Future competition and have appeared three times in the annual Best of British Science Fiction anthologies. His science fiction novel, 2084 – The Meschera Bandwidth, and collection of 24 short stories previously published in Terraform, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere.
10 published books
Ryan Southwick decided to dabble at writing late in life, and quickly became obsessed with the craft. He grew up in Pennsylvania and moved to a farming town on California’s central coast during elementary school, but it was in junior high school where he had his first taste of storytelling with a small role playing group and couldn’t get enough. In addition to half a lifetime in the software development industry, making everything from 3-D games to mission-critical business applications to help cure cancer, he was also a Radiation Therapist for many years. His technical experience, medical…
1 published book
Stephan James lives in Missouri with several children, several pets, and several works in progress. He fiction has been published in The Arcanist and Fall Into Fantasy 2022, while his non-fiction (as Stephan Mathys) has been published at Story Unlikely and Wabash Magazine. Find more of his work at stephanjameswrites.com.
4 published books
Steve Soult graduated with a BS EE degree from the University of Santa Clara. He then went to the Navy’s OCS in Newport, Rhode Island and was commissioned as a US Naval Officer. During the Vietnam War, he was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Base. After his release from active duty, he attended the University of California at Berkeley on the GI Bill, earned an MS EECS degree, and was hired by IBM in San Jose. While at IBM, Steve received an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and had an article published in the IBM Journal of Research and Development. IBM also paid the tuition for his…
13 published books
Steven D. Brewer has been a fan of science fiction and fantasy stories for as long as he can remember. He still remembers getting scolded for not reading chapter books in fourth grade because he was avidly consuming The Hobbit late at night, by flashlight under his covers. And he probably got his copy from his older brother and most important mentor. As an author, Steven identifies diverse obsessions that underlie his writing. His early interest in natural history, life science, and environmentalism he learned from his father, an ecologist and ornithologist. He attributes seeing his mother…
5 published books
Steven Radecki has been writing stories for as long as he can remember. After earning a degree in Information and Computer Science, he authored several technical papers about computer technology and one non-fiction book about developing multimedia applications, Multimedia with QuickTime. Now, he focuses on writing novels and screenplays. He is a technical writer and a certified project manager, managing projects for several high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. He is also the Executive Producer of the Small Publishing in a Big Universe podcast. Steven can be found at A Work in Progress. Mastodon
1 published book
Sue Eaton was a teacher of children with autism and special needs for many years, and has written drama for children with communication and social needs, earning a Millennium award. She has published a science fiction/historical novel, The Woman Who Was Not His Wife, and has had short stories published in four horror anthologies, one science fiction anthology, and has edited an anthology of ghost stories.
1 published book
Susan McDonough-Wachtman has been writing since grade school. She has tried her hand at children’s stories, short stories, romances, historical novels, essays, fantasies, mysteries, science fiction, numerous letters to the editor, and a blog. Susan has been a burger tosser, customer service rep, ad taker, curriculum developer, parent, teacher, reader, and gardener. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with one cat and one husband. Most recently, “Mother, May I” was accepted for the Halloween edition of Tales From the Moonlit Path, “Xanthippe” was included in a Brigids Gate anthology, “Pantsed”…
1 published book
Terry Campbell wrote extensively during the 1990s, appearing in numerous anthologies ( Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Blood Muse, Kiss and Kill: the Hot Blood Series) and small press magazines ( Terminal Fright, After Hours, Into the Darkness). But sometime during the 2000s, he drifted away from the keyboard. Then, in 2023, spurred on by an odd dream he thought would make a good story, his wife surprised him with a new laptop. And the bug was back. He started writing again and hasn’t stopped, with appearances in anthologies such as What Lurks?: A Cryptid Anthology, Hellbound Book’s Horror…
1 published book
TN Tarrant is a hard-working single mom living in the wilds of Wyoming, who enjoys embarrassing her child with bright red lipstick prints to the forehead. When she isn't embarrassing her child, or hunting, killing and dragging groceries home through the snow, she loves to write romantic stories with hot lovers. She suffers from a love of extremely bad jokes and has a tendency to inflict them on innocent bystanders.
1 published book
Travis has been a professional actor, Spider-Man at children’s birthday parties, an inventory specialist of fine and rare wine, and a teacher, but his favorite job by far is being a stay-at-home dad to twin girls, two cats, and a dog. His stories have appeared in Zombies Need Brains’ NOIR anthology, Metaphorosis Magazine, Metastellar, and elsewhere. Travis grew up in Indiana, and after spending a good deal of his twenties in Los Angeles, now resides in Washington, DC.
7 published books
Vanessa MacLaren-Wray writes science fiction and fantasy exploring the challenges of communication and attachment in a diverse, complex universe. She’s the author of the Patchwork Universe series, including All That Was Asked, “The True Son,” and the duology Shadows of Insurrection and Flames of Attrition. She’s also a member of the Truck Stop at the Center of the Galaxy consortium, with “Coke Machine” and The Smugglers. Her short fiction has appeared with Dragon Gems and in the award-winning anthology Fault Zone: Reverse. She hosts regular online open mics for the California Writers Club and…
Sandy Moonias, Samuel Colabufo, Tina M. Ray and Ivy Garces’s profile materials were supplied directly to the club. Other author photographs and biographies are courtesy of Water Dragon Publishing.
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