Meet our authors! These are the people who make Candlemark & Gleam truly special – the ones who invent the worlds we get to experience.
The hyperlinks of the author names take you to their preferred websites.
Greek-born Athena Andreadis came to the US to attend Harvard and MIT. She conducted basic research in brain function by day and wrote by night. She’s the author of To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek and the astrogator of swashbuckling small press Candlemark & Gleam. Her poems, stories and essays are in venues like Harvard Review, Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, Bull Spec, SF Signal, H+ Magazine, io9, and her own site, Starship Reckless.
Twitter: @AthenaHelivoy
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Amy Bai has been, by order of neither chronology nor preference, a barista, a numbers-cruncher, a paper-pusher, and a farmhand. She likes thunderstorms, the enthusiasm of dogs, tall boots and long jackets, cinnamon basil, margaritas, and being surprised by the weirdness of her fellow humans. She lives in New England with her husband and her dog. When she’s not writing in hermit-like solitude, she plots world domination via a silly-string war.
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Lise Breakey started out writing fantasy role-playing game articles and books but has also written science fiction intermittently over the last 25 years. In her day job, she is an attorney, handling indigent criminal appeals in the California Courts of Appeal. She also invented the traffic sign which reads “Resume Being Unprepared To Stop.” She lives with her family in La Mesa, California. Her best writing occurs in various coffeehouses in La Mesa Village.
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M Fenn has lived in eight U.S. states and visited forty more, as well as three Canadian provinces. She has been a veterinary technician, a radio DJ, and an office manager for a house museum, among other things. She now lives and writes in the wilderness of southern Vermont with her furniture maker husband and a clowder of ghost cats.
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Elana Gomel is the author of five non-fiction books and of numerous articles on subjects ranging from science fiction and fantasy to posthumanism and Victorian literature. She has published more than 30 fantasy and science fiction stories, in such magazines as New Horizons, Bewildering Stories, Timeless Tales, The Singularity, New Realm, Mythic, and The Fantasist; as well as horror fantasy novels The Hungry Ones and The Cryptids.
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Jo Graham is the author of twenty-five novels, two online games and two pagan spirituality books. Best known for her historical fantasy novels Black Ships and Stealing Fire, and her tie-in novels for MGM’s Stargate series, she has been a Locus Award finalist, an Amazon Top Choice, a Spectrum Award finalist, a Romantic Times Top Pick in historical fiction and a Lambda Literary Award and Rainbow Award nominee for bisexual fiction. With Melissa Scott, she has written five books in the Order of the Air series, a historical fantasy series set in the 1920s and 30s.
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Martha A. Hood lives and writes in Irvine, California. Her fiction has appeared in a number of publications, including Interzone, Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, The Sockdolager, and Tales of the Unanticipated. She blogs, sporadically, at Speculativemartha.wordpress.com. She shares her abode with a husband and two cockatiels.
Twitter: @MarthaHood4
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Raised in New Orleans, Kelly Jennings is a member and co-founder of the Boston Mountain Writers Group. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and The Other Half of The Sky. Her first novel, Broken Slate, was published in 2011 and she co-edited the anthology Menial: Skilled Labor in SF (2012).
Twitter: @delagar
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Drawing on an eclectic background that includes degrees in classical languages and musicology, Anne E. Johnson has published in a wide variety of topics and genres. She lives in Brooklyn, and blogs at http://anneejohnson.blogspot.com/
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Andrew Knighton is a freelance writer and an author of fantasy and alternate history. He has ghost-written fourteen novels, co-written The Bear’s Claws, a Cold War alternate history, and had over fifty short stories published in magazines, websites, and anthologies. He was a finalist in the Top Cow Comics talent hunt and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for short fiction.
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Kristin Landon lived in Oregon with her husband Tom. In addition to writing science fiction, she worked as a freelance copyeditor of a wide range of scholarly and medical books. Her novelette “From the Depths” appeared in the highly acclaimed science fiction anthology To Shape the Dark (Candlemark & Gleam, 2016). She is also the author of the Hidden Worlds trilogy: The Hidden Worlds, The Cold Minds, and The Dark Reaches (Ace Books).
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Christine Lucas lives in Greece with her husband and a horde of spoiled animals. A retired Air Force officer and mostly self-taught in English, she has had her work appear in many SFF magazines, including Daily Science Fiction, Pseudopod, Nature: Futures, and in highly-claimed anthologies. She was a finalist for the 2017 WSFA award, the winner the 2017 Fantasticon Award, and she’s working on her first novel. Visit her at http://werecat99.wordpress.com/.
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Born in Los Angeles and raised in California, Leonard now lives in New York City where he writes programs (for the NY Public Library, inter alia) and fiction; among his creations are robotfindskitten, Beautiful Soup, RESTful Web APIs, and, of course, Constellation Games.
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Much like film noir, Justin Robinson was born and raised in Los Angeles. He splits his time between editing comic books, writing prose and wondering what that disgusting smell is. Degrees in Anthropology and History prepared him for unemployment, but an obsession with horror fiction and a laundry list of phobias provided a more attractive option.
Twitter: @weirdnoirmaster
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Born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Melissa Scott studied history at Harvard, and published her first novel while earning her PhD from Brandeis in comparative history. She has published more than thirty original novels, most with queer themes and characters, as well as authorized tie-in novels for Star Trek, Stargate, and Star Wars Rebels. She won the John W. Campbell Award, multiple Lambda Literary and Spectrum Awards, was shortlisted for the Tiptree Award and many of her short stories have been anthologized in Year’s Best.
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Robin Shortt was born in Canberra and lives in Vancouver. His stories have previously appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild anthology Winds of Change.
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Melanie Stormm is a semi-sentient being living and breathing in New Hampshire, who generally tries not to make a complete mess of things. A known and respected musician in some spheres, unknown and ignored in others, she is also poet, writer of short-fiction and comics to the same varying degree of success. Her short story “A Mohawk Place for Souls” was a finalist for the Hamlin Garland Award for Short Fiction in 2018 and published by Beloit Fiction Journal that same year.
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A.M. Tuomala grew up in the wilds of West Virginia, and now cares for four affectionate and energetic plants and two cats.
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Joan Frances Turner was born in Rhode Island and grew up in the Calumet region of northwest Indiana. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, she lives near the Indiana Dunes with her family and a garden full of spring onions and tiger lilies, weather permitting.
