Peter S. Beagle
Peter Soyer Beagle is the internationally bestselling and much-beloved author of numerous classic fantasy novels and collections, including The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, I See By My Outfit, The Line Between, Sleight of Hand, Summerlong, In Calabria, and I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons. He is the editor of The Secret History of Fantasy and the co-editor of The Urban Fantasy Anthology.
A Bronx native, Beagle published his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, at nineteen, while still completing his degree in creative writing. Beagle’s follow-up, The Last Unicorn, is widely considered one of the great works of fantasy. It has been made into a feature-length animated film, a stage play, and a graphic novel. He has written widely for both stage and screen, including the screenplay adaptations for The Last Unicorn, the animated film of The Lord of the Rings, and the well-known “Sarek” episode of Star Trek.
As one of the fantasy genre’s most-lauded authors, Beagle has received the Hugo, Nebula, Mythopoeic, and Locus Awards as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. He has also been honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award and the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award. In 2017, he was named the 34th Damon Knight Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association for his contributions to fantasy and science fiction.
Jaymee Goh
Jaymee Goh is a Malaysian-Chinese writer, reviewer, editor, and essayist of speculative fiction. Her work has been published in various magazines and anthologies, such as Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, and reprinted in LeVar Burton Reads and Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Her reviews and nonfiction have appeared on Tor.com, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Strange Horizons. A graduate from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in 2016, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside, where she dissertated in science fiction studies and critical race theory. She has acquired and edited short fiction, some of which have gone on to be reprinted and translated, and now currently acquires and edits novellas and novels for Tachyon Publications, some of which have gone on to win awards.
Cecelia Holland
Cecelia Holland was born in Henderson, Nevada, in 1943 and started writing at the age of twelve. With her first novel, The Firedrake, in 1966, she established herself as one world’s most highly acclaimed and respected historical novelists. With over 21 novels to her credit, she’s covered most of the last millennium in her writings. Holland’s ability to evoke the history of the past and make it real and relevant to today’s readers is unparalleled; with settings like prehistoric Britain (Pillar of the Sky) and 12th-century Iceland (Two Ravens) to 16th century-Hungary (Rakóssy) and nineteenth-century California (The Bear Flag, Railroad Schemes, Lily Nevada, Pacific Street, An Ordinary Woman), they are quite simply classics of their kind. Her science fiction and fantasy, such as Floating Worlds and Dragon Heart, only emphasize her talent for writing in many genres.
Helene Wecker
Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. A Midwest native, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. The second novel in the trilogy, The Hidden Palace, the long-awaited follow-up revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world. The final book, The Gates of Midnight, is a rich and satisfying close to this unforgettable saga.
