Visit the Small Publishing in a Big Universe Marketplace at Readercon 33!
Meet the authors and purchase personally signed editions!
July 11, 2024 – July 14. 2024
Quincy, Massachusetts
Gregory A. Wilson
(attending)
Gregory A. Wilson is Professor of English at St. John’s University, where he teaches creative writing and speculative fiction, and is author of Clemson UP’s The Problem in the Middle: Liminal Space and the Court Masque, book chapters, and journal articles. He lives with his family in a two-hundred-year-old home near the sea in Connecticut; his virtual home is gregoryawilson.com.
Minerva Cerridwen
Minerva Cerridwen is a genderqueer aromantic asexual writer and pharmacist from Belgium. She enjoys baking, drawing, and handlettering. Since 2013, she has been writing for Paranatellonta, a project combining photography and flash fiction. Her first published work was the queer fairy tale “Match Sticks” in the Unburied Fables anthology (2016). Her short stories have also appeared in Atthis Arts anthologies, Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove and Community of Magic Pens.
Marlena Frank
Marlena Frank is the author of young adult fantasy and horror novels, including several books that have hit the bestseller lists. Readers’ Favorite has praised several of her books with 5-star reviews. Marlena has various professional memberships, including the Atlanta chapter of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
M.D. Neu
Growing up in an accepting family, internationally award-winning author M.D. Neu always wondered why there were never stories reflecting the diverse queer society. Surrounded by characters that only reflected heterosexual society, he decided to change that and began writing, wanting to tell epic stories that reflect our varied world. When not writing, M.D. Neu works for a non-profit in Silicon Valley and travels with his husband of twenty-plus years.
Palmer Pickering
Palmer Pickering has been writing fiction since she was eight. She received her BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University, with concentrations in Religion and Race Relations. She currently works in Silicon Valley in the gaming industry and high tech. She lives and writes in the magical redwood forest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, California.
Avi Silver
Avi Silver is a speculative fiction author, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Augur Magazine, and a poet. In 2018, he co-founded The Shale Project, an award-winning indie arts collective through which he writes the ongoing Sãoni Cycle, in addition to poems, short stories, and longer works for a variety of venues.
William C. Tracy
William C. Tracy writes and publishes queer science fiction and fantasy through his indie press Space Wizard Science Fantasy (spacewizardsciencefantasy.com). His largest work is the Dissolutionverse: a space opera with music-based magic. He also has a standalone epic fantasy with seasonal fruit-based magic and a nonfiction book about body mechanics and correct posture. He is working on the final book of The Biomass Conflux, a hard sci-fi trilogy with generational colony ships and a planet covered by a sentient fungal entity.
Clara Ward
Clara Ward lives in Silicon Valley, California on the border between reality and speculative fiction. Their short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Decoded Pride, and The Arcanist. When not using words to teach or tell stories, Clara uses wood, fiber, and glass to make practical or completely impractical objects.
