by Michele Kirichanskaya | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog
A former culture and travel reporter for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong, Frances Cha taught at Ewha Womans University and Yonsei University. Currently, she teaches undergraduate fiction at Columbia University. Frances’s debut novel If I Had Your Face (Ballantine...
by Alexa Goodrich-Houska (she/they) | Oct 29, 2025 | Blog
Ever wonder what would happen if you were the rescue animal and your new family was a squad of soft eyed aliens with a talent for positive reinforcement and snack time? That is the deliciously silly premise of Me, The Family Pet?, a webcomic that treats culture shock...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog
Hongwei Bao (he/him) is a Nottingham-based queer Chinese writer, translator and academic. He is part of the Fifth Word Playwrights, GOBS Spoken Word Collective and Nottingham Playhouse Writers’ Room. He is also a Middle Way Mentee for writing fiction and a New...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Oct 22, 2025 | Blog
Alix E. Harrow is the NYT-bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, Starling House, and various short fiction, including a duology of retold fairy tales (A Spindle Splintered and A Mirror Mended). Her work has won a Hugo and...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Oct 17, 2025 | Blog
K. M. Fajardo is a second-generation Filipino Canadian writer from the Toronto suburbs. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Global Business and Digital Arts before working in the tech industry. After a childhood spent roaming bookstores, she...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Oct 15, 2025 | Blog
Taylor Grothe is a neurodivergent (ASD) NB horror writer with an MFA from Fairfield University. Their work has appeared in Haven Speculative, Shortwave Magazine, Coffin Bell, Parents, Verywell Family, Brevity’s writing craft blog, and an anthology published by Bag of...