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Author Rebecca Serle and her book, The Dinner List

Interview With an Author: Rebecca Serle

October 16, 2018

Rebecca Serle is a full-time writer, which means she gets to wear pajamas to work. She went to the University of Southern California, then got her MFA from the New School in NYC.


Author P. Djeli Clark and his book "The Black God's Drum"

Interview With an Author: P. Djèlí Clark

October 02, 2018

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago.


Author Christopher Huang and his book, A Gentleman's Murder

Interview With an Author: Christopher Huang

August 30, 2018

Christopher Huang grew up in Singapore, where he served his two years of National Service as an Army Signaller. He then moved to Canada where he studied Architecture at McGill University in Montréal. Huang currently lives in Montreal.


Photo of Juliet McDaniel and her debut novel, Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

Interview With an Author: Juliet McDaniel

August 21, 2018

Juliet McDaniel has an M.A. in Writing from DePaul University. Although raised in Arizona, she spent the last 25 years living in Chicago, where she currently resides with her partner and her cats.


Author Anne Youngson and her debut novel, Meet Me at the Museum

Interview With an Author: Anne Youngson

August 15, 2018

Anne Youngson had a long, successful career in the motor industry before taking an early retirement to focus on her writing. She is currently studying for a PhD at Oxford Brookes. Anne and her husband live on a farm in Oxfordshire, where they have a two-acre garden open to the public.


Author Ruthann Emrys with her book covers

Interview With an Author: Ruthanna Emrys

July 26, 2018

Ruthanna Emrys lives in a mysterious manor house in the outskirts of Washington DC with her wife and their large, strange family.


Author Kathryn Harkup and her book Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

July 06, 2018

Dr. Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a Ph.D. then a postdoc at the University of York before realizing that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed far more than spending hours slaving over a hot fume-hood.


Author Ian McDonald and his book Time Was

Interview With an Author: Ian McDonald

June 22, 2018

Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.


Photo of author C.L. Polk  and her book Witchmark

Interview With an Author: C.L. Polk

May 31, 2018

C. L. Polk wrote her first story in grade school and still hasn't learned any better. After spending years in strange occupations and wandering western Canada, she settled in southern Alberta with her rescue dog Otis. C. L.


John Kessel and his book Pride and Prometheus

Interview With an Author: John Kessel

May 09, 2018

John Kessel holds a B.A. in Physics and English and a Ph.D. in American Literature. He helped found and served as the first director of the MFA program in creative writing at North Carolina State University, where he has taught since 1982. He is also an award-winning author.


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