May Peterson lives in Kansas City with two dark wizards and their dog familiars. She is rumored to be some kind of magical creature, but exactly which kind is still debated by scholars. While they sort that out, May busies herself as a romance and fantasy author, as well as a freelance editor. She gravitates toward writing and reading stories that are magical, hopeful, and distinctive, as well as those that explore identity, queerness, and connection. May, who also writes as M.A. Peterson, believes that bringing a daydream to life with its own tale to tell is always a small miracle.
Category Archives: Fiction
Kris Ripper
Kris Ripper lives in the great state of California and hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. Kris shares a converted garage with a toddler, can do two pull-ups in a row, and can write backwards. (No, really.) Kris is genderqueer and prefers the z-based pronouns because they’re freaking sweet. Ze has been writing fiction since ze learned how to write, and boring zir stuffed animals with stories long before that.
Crystal Schubert
Crystal Schubert is a reader, a writer, and a mother of two based in Richmond, VA. In 2019, she was awarded a spot in the inaugural class of the Unruly Retreat. Her short story “The Aviary” was published in the anthology Beware the Little White Rabbit out from Leap Books, and her other short works can be found in YARN and wicked alice.
Greer Stothers
Greer Stothers is an award-winning author/illustrator based in Toronto. Their education is a patchwork of science and art, as they graduated from Sheridan College with a Bachelors of Illustration, followed by a stint at the University of Toronto studying evolutionary biology. Their love of dinosaurs led them to acquire two fat chickens named Tallgeese and Wormbecca, who live in a miniature house in their backyard and lay far too many eggs for them to eat.
Their experiences as a nonbinary individual inform their writing and art, as does their drive to find the humour in everything.
Their experiences as a nonbinary individual inform their writing and art, as does their drive to find the humour in everything.
Maren C. Tirabassi
After trouping the country in the 70s managing tours for choreographer Agnes de Mille, The National Theatre of Great Britain’s all-male ‘As You Like It’, David Suchet (prior to Poirot) in The Royal Shakespeare’s ‘Hollow Crown’, and the first Black Broadway production of ‘Guys and Dolls’, Maren changed careers, much to everyone’s surprise, to study for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, she served as bi-vocational pastor to seven Massachusetts and New Hampshire churches, while simultaneously publishing twenty books, mostly non-fiction with The Pilgrim Press.
A former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, and LAMDA Prize nominee, she currently facilitates programs for the NH humanities Council with recent immigrants and people with cognitive disabilities, and leads poetry and memoir workshops in prisons, recovery and survivor groups, churches and synagogues, and provides justice-based content for activist groups. She blogs on wordpress as Gifts in Open Hands.
Maren loves beagles, quilting, sci-fi and fantasy conventions, and story-telling via Skype to her grandsons three thousand miles away.
H.P. Wood
H. P. Wood is the granddaughter of a mad inventor and a sideshow magician. Instead of making things disappear, she makes books of all shapes and sizes. She has written or edited works on an array of topics, including the history of the Internet, the future of human rights, and the total awesomeness of playing with sticks. Her first novel, MAGRUDER’S CURIOSITY CABINET, will be published by Sourcebooks Landmark in June 2016. She lives in Connecticut with a charming and patient husband, a daughter from whom she steals all her best ideas, and more cats than is strictly logical.