by Michele Kirichanskaya | May 13, 2022 | Blog
Shveta Thakrar was one of the inaugural Walter Dean Myers grant recipients of 2015 and has been a shining mainstay in fantasy, appearing on conference panels since 2010. She has had fiction published in Uncanny Magazine, Faerie Magazine, and forthcoming from...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | May 11, 2022 | Blog
Laura Gao is a 25-year-old queer artist, author, and bread lover. Originally from Wuhan, China, Gao immigrated to a small town in Texas when she was four. Gao’s art career began by doodling on Pokémon cards and has since blossomed to be featured on NPR, the MOCA...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | May 7, 2022 | Blog
Xiran Jay Zhao (they/them) is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Widow series. A first-gen Hui Chinese immigrant from small-town China to Vancouver, Canada, they were raised by the internet and made the inexplicable decision to leave their biochem...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | May 4, 2022 | Blog
Adiba Jaigirdar is the critically-acclaimed and bestselling author of The Henna Wars and Hani & Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating. A Bangladeshi/Irish writer and teacher, she has an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent, England and a BA in English and...
by Kevin Gilligan | May 3, 2022 | Blog
It’s the continued return of the Flame Cast, our celebration of past, present, and future Flame Con guests. Join Kevin in a conversation with Jay Edidin, writer, editor, and podcaster. He’s best known as one of the hosts of Jay & Miles X-Plain the...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Apr 29, 2022 | Blog
Shelly Romero (she/her) was born and raised in Miami by Honduran parents. She now resides in New York City where she is forever chasing the perfect café Cubano and pan tostado. She is a member of Latinx in Publishing, People of Color in Publishing, is a junior...
