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Chelsea Snow Cain is an American writer of novels and columns.

Kat Howard is an author who writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror.Howard has written books, novellas, and short fiction collections. She wrote the first 18 issues of the DC comic book The Books of Magic.

Marc Bernardin is an American journalist, TV and comic book writer. He co-hosts the Fatman Beyond podcast.

Carly Usdin is a director, writer, and producer.

Paul Scheer, born January 31, 1976, in New Hyde Park, New York, is a SAG Award-winning actor, writer, producer, pod-caster, and director. Scheer is a series regular on the Emmy nominated Showtime series Black Monday opposite Don Cheadle. He also is known for his role as Andre on the hit FX show The League, as well as his role of Mitch in Fresh off the Boat, and Stevie on Veep. Scheer won the Screen Actors Guild Award (2018) for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in Veep. In 2019, he won the HollyWeb Festival award for best comedy in The Amazing Gayl Pile.

Genevieve Valentine is a science fiction and fantasy writer.Valentine's novel, "Mechanique: A tale of the Circus Tresaulti," was published in 2012, won the Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel and was shortlisted for the Nebula Award. She is currently writing The Persona Series, a science fiction thriller series which so far includes the novels "Persona," published in 2015, and "Icon," published in 2016.Valentine's fiction has appeared in many Best of the Year anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her cultural criticism has appeared at NPR.org, The AV Club, LA Review of Books, Vice, Vox, and The New York Times.Valentine has also written scripts for DC Comics' "Catwoman" and "Batman and Robin Eternal" and Dynamite's "Xena: Warrior Princess."

Nalo Hopkinson is an author and editor of speculative fiction. Her writing is influenced by the fairy and folk tales she read at a young age in Kingston, which included Afro-Caribbean stories like Anansi, as well as Western works like Gulliver's Travels, the Iliad, and the Odyssey. Currently, she is a professor in Creative Writing at University of California Riverside.Her first book, the novel "Brown Girl in the Ring," was published in 1998.Hopkinson received her M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.