Alex Smith is a sci-fi writer (The Resistance web-series; Black Vans comic book), artist, musician (art-punk bands Solarized, Rainbow Crimes), activist (Metropolarity queer sci-fi collective) and cultural/arts critic (Pitchfork, The Key, Bandcamp, Philly Gay News). He is a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and soon to be published author of the sci-fi/cyberpunk/super-hero/Afrofuturist short story collection ARKDUST, forthcoming from Rosarium Publishing. @Alexoteric
Marianne Villanueva is the author of the short story collections Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Mayor of the Roses, and The Lost Language. Her novella, Jenalyn, was a finalist for the UK's Saboteur Award. Born and raised in the Philippines, she received a creative writing fellowship from Stanford University and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She teaches in UCLA Extension's Writers Program.
Anne-Adele Wight has written science fiction and poetry for a long time, but they didn’t come together until she started An Internet of Containment (BlazeVOX, 2018). Her earlier books, all poetry and all from BlazeVOX, are The Age of Greenhouses, Opera House Arterial, and Sidestep Catapult. She curated the multi-genre performance series Jubilant Thicket and has published her work internationally. She lives and writes in Philadelphia.
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