Roger Zelazny (1937 – 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times. He has a crustacean named after him!

Many thanks to Trent Zelazny for working with us to share The Stainless Steel Leech and other stories with you. While you’re in the mood for fiction, check out some of his work. We recommend starting with his excellent collection The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories.

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Joule K. Zelman is a writer and wildlife advocate in the Pacific Northwest who has dabbled in an excessive number of professions, including French-to-English translator, arts journalist, and escape room manager. She loves studying languages and spoiling her cats.

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Allen Zhang is an electrical engineering student at Georgia Tech who enjoys reading fiction from around the world. He appreciates a variety of genres from Greco-Roman classical literature to contemporary Japanese smartphone applications.

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Cynthia Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the University of Southern California. Her novel, After the Dragons, was published with Stelliform Press in 2021, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Ursula K. LeGuin Award in Fiction as well as the 2022 Utopia Awards in the category of Utopian Novella. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Solarpunk Magazine, Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth, Kaleidotrope, On Spec, Phantom Drift, and other venues. She is on the web at czscribbles.wixsite.com/my-site and cz_writes on Twitter.

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Zhang is a tiny genderqueer nerd who enjoys reading danmei novels in their free time. A small town person with moderately-sized writing dreams, they like writing about low-stakes fluffy queer romances. Read their work in the Mad Scientist’s Journal and Fixi Novo’s Little Basket.

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Audrey Zhou is a Chinese American writer from North Carolina, where she studies computer science, statistics, and creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her short fiction has been published in Strange Horizons and Orion’s Belt and is forthcoming in the Silk and Sinew anthology from Bad Hand Books. When not writing, she likes to draw, watch bad TV with her friends, and curate oddly specific playlists of music. Find her @aud_zhou on Twitter and @audreyzhou.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Liz Zimmers is a writer of dark fantasy and fairy tale. She is the author of two short story collections – Wilderness: A Collection of Dark Tales (published under her former name, Elizabeth Yon), and Blackfern Girls. Both collections have been included as reading material in Penn State University’s Fantasy Literature course. Several of her short stories have appeared in the Bannerwing Books anthologies Echoes in Darkness and Precipice, Volumes II and III. More of Liz’s stories and essays can be found on the platforms Medium and Vocal.

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Jen Zink is a stay at home parent and podcaster with a love of all things science fiction and fantasy. Jen is the Executive Producer and a co-host of The Skiffy and Fanty Show, an audio editor for Nightlight Podcast, and she blogs at The Homepunks. The Skiffy and Fanty Show is a weekly podcast and active blog featuring anything and everything related to the science fiction and fantasy genres, with commentary on controversial topics and news in literature, film, and interviews with authors, scientists, and filmmakers.

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