A.D. Sui is a Ukrainian-born, queer, disabled science fiction writer, and the author of THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT. She is a failed academic, retired fencer, and coffee enthusiast. Her short fiction has appeared in Augur, Fusion Fragment, HavenSpec, and other venues. When not wrangling her two dogs you can find her on every social media platform as @thesuiway.
Dzintra Sullivan is a worldwide bestselling Australian author who lives on Queensland’s beautiful East Coast. She writes from a place in her soul that knows no boundaries, and believes that conformity stifles creativity, and as such refuses to play a part in it. Instead, as she has been described by her peers as being in the mould of a Terry Pratchett, Dzintra greets her characters with an open heart and mind and strives to tell their stories with the passion and dedication they deserve. Each of her books are treated with the unique vision that she feels they need. Her work is driven by the characters that inhabit her world, and this allows them to lead both her, and the reader on an incredible ride through every book she writes. When you open a book by Dzintra, you can be guaranteed of one thing: You are in for an amazing journey.
Dr. Jonathon Sullivan was the first author published on Escape Pod, and read several stories in Escape Pod’s early days.
Chris Sumberg dwells in the shadowy regions of East Tennessee with his wife and their motley collection of … creatures. His writing has been published in Bitter Empire, The Partially Examined Life, Horror Garage, Grievous Angel, Broad Street Review, and other magazines and journals. He has work forthcoming in Folk Rebellion, ChiZine Press’ War on Christmas anthology, and The Hamthology (a poetry anthology about ham sandwiches – no, really).
Annie ZH Sun is a Chinese Writer who grew up in Malta. She graduated from the Msc Creative Writing programme at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in Bag of Bones Press ‘This is Tense’ anthology, Band of Bards ‘Dark Side of Purity’ zine, and was shortlisted in Liar’s League: Colour and Vision Event 2022. She was the winner of the Horror Competition in Edinburgh writers’ Club, 2024.
Miranda Suri writes speculative fiction, teaches anthropology at Queens College, and goes on archaeological adventures that would make Indiana Jones green with envy. When she’s not curled up with a good book at her Brooklyn apartment, she can be found indulging one of her hobbies, which include knitting, practicing Pilates, and traveling the world.
Her writing has appeared in anthologies and magazines, including Abyss & Apex, Mothership Zeta, Flash Fiction Online, Penumbra, Electric Spec, Every Day Fiction, Fictionvale, and Pseudopod.
James L. Sutter‘s short fiction has appeared in such venues as Escape Pod (“Overclocking”) and Podcastle (“Ties of Silver”) – woo, triple crown! – Apex Magazine, and the #1 Amazon bestseller MACHINE OF DEATH. His first novel, DEATH’S HERETIC (it’s a dimension-hopping Middle Eastern fantasy story about an atheist forced to work as a problem-solver for the goddess of death) was ranked #3 on Barnes & Noble’s Best Fantasy Releases of 2011, and is currently a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. His anthology BEFORE THEY WERE GIANTS pairs the first published short stories of speculative fiction greats with new advice and instructional critiques by the authors themselves. He’s also a co-creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and the Fiction Editor for Paizo Publishing, and has published dozens of roleplaying game products. He lives in Seattle with 4 roommates and a fully functional death ray.
Rachel Swirsky was a founding editor of PodCastle, along with Ann Leckie.
Rachel’s short stories have appeared in Tor,Subterranean Magazine, and Clarkesworld, and been reprinted in year’s best anthologies edited by Strahan, Horton, Dozois, and the VanderMeers. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and graduated from Clarion West in 2005.
Her short fiction has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Sturgeon Award. She’s twice won the Nebula Award, in 2010 for her novella, The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window and in 2014 for her short story, If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love.