Introducing…The Ghost Class

Thea Boodhoo

Thea Boodhoo lives in San Francisco, California with her husband, one elderly tortoiseshell cat and eighteen houseplants. Her fiction has appeared in Bards & Sages Quarterly, Metaphorosis, TERSE and JMWW. She’s currently working on a science fiction novel about an AI-managed wilderness. Twitter: @tharkibo Instagram: @tharkibo Web: theaboodhoo.com

Alyssa C. Greene

Alyssa C. Greene’s work can be found in Fence, Pleiades, North American Review,  Sou’wester, and elsewhere. A former fiction editor for Quarterly West and editorial assistant for the Lambda Literary Review, she created Lambda's "Spotlight on New Queer Literature" interview series. She co-hosts Say Podcast and Die!, a podcast about the Goosebumps series; she’s also a co-writer on the forthcoming webseries, The Way Through. She currently lives in Boston and is working on a novel about cults and parasitic fungi. Twitter: @acgreenest Instagram: @caffeinemotivated

Gwendolyn Hicks

Gwendolyn Hicks grew up in the hills of Sonoma and now lives in San Francisco with many houseplants, and also some people. She has had a lot of jobs. She has formerly interned at National Novel Writing Month and worked as an assistant editor for Stranger’s Guide magazine. She makes stories about grief, hope, love, and trees. Sometimes all four. Twitter: @prioryruins Instagram: @prioryruins prioryruins.carrd.co

Andrew Dana Hudson

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, solarpunk futurist, and political organizer. He has a masters degree in sustainability from Arizona State University, where he is a fellow at the Center for Science and the Imagination. His short fiction has appeared in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and more, as well as various books and anthologies. He lives in Tempe, Arizona. Twitter: @AndrewDHudson Instagram: @andrewdanahudson Web: andrewdanahudson.com

LP Kindred

LP Kindred is a Chicagoan-Angeleno whose Speculative Fiction concerns itself with the intersections of Black and Gay Identities. When not procrastinating on short stories, LP likes to sing and listen to music, lift heavy things, binge questionable television, and daydream of finishing his novel. His fiction is featured or forthcoming in Fiyah Literary Magazine and Speculative City. Kindred is an alum of Hurston-Wright and VONA. Twitter: @LPKindred Instagram: @LPKindred

Sam Lasman

Sam Lasman writes and teaches on monsters, magic, and the Global Middle Ages. A New Englander currently living in Chicago, he is working on a novel about a revolution in an empire ruled by magic-wielding aristocrats. Twitter: @smwlasman Instagram: @smwlasman samlasman.com

Anna-Claire McGrath

Anna-Claire McGrath  lives in Richmond, VA where she is a third-year MFA student in fiction and nonfiction at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been published with Scribes Valley, no. 2 magazine and Dear Damsels, with work upcoming in Spank the Carp and iO Literary Journal. She attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2019. Her real dream job is to be a mermaid, but writer is a close second.

Matthew Olivas

Matthew Olivas (he/him/his) is a Mexican Science Fiction and Fantasy author from the San Francisco Bay Area. His works guarantee monsters, ghost, aliens, or robots, and sometimes all of the above. The heart of his stories center grief, trauma, diaspora, and identity. He’s published in The Foundationalist, and is currently working on a novel (hint: it’s got Aztec Vampires.) He spends his time making playlists for his characters, watching genre movies, and adding to his growing Transformers collection.
Twitter: @OlivasMatthew

Niv Sekar

Niv Sekar is someone who writes and draws, and does a lot of things inside the intersection of both (comics! animation! short stories!) She grew up in the south, making friends by magic and learning to drive (badly) in thunderstorms. Now she lives in New York, where she spends her winters trying not to slip on the sidewalks.
Twitter: @niv_tales Instagram: @hollowitch
Web: nivsekar.com

Chelsea Sutton

Chelsea Sutton writes for puppets a lot, and things get weird. She was a 2016 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2018 Sewanee Writers Conference Playwright Fellow,  and recently got her MFA in Fiction at UC Riverside. Her fiction has appeared in Bourbon Penn, Cosmonaut Avenue and Pithead Chapel, and is upcoming in Craft Literary and Sequestrum. Her first (and unpublished) short story collection, Curious Monsters, was the runner-Up for the 2018 Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize.
Twitter: @wthcoffeespoons Instagram: @crsutton
Web: chelseasutton.com

Mary Thaler

Mary Thaler lives in Quebec City, Canada, where she works as a writer and an environmental microbiologist. She is currently revising the manuscript of a historical novel about the Arctic. Her work has appeared in literary journals, and can be found online at marythaler.wordpress.com
Twitter: @MaryResearches Instagram: @mary.thaler

Ryan White

Ryan White is a Horticultural Researcher specializing in soil ecology and vegetable production systems. He has also worked to produce original Civil Rights Research, heading development for the Carter G. Woodson Institute and the University of Virginia. He received an MFA from the University of Virginia and has taught creative writing at Touro College, the University of Virginia, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His fiction ranges from speculative and science fiction to horror and the fantastic.
Instagram: @whiteryanedward

Jenny Williams

Jenny Willams has worked in publishing, big tech, international development, and Bollywood. Her debut novel, The Atlas of Forgotten Places, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2017. She’s currently working on a YA space fantasy novel, some short stories, and a supernatural novel set in Yosemite Valley during World War II, loosely inspired by true events.
Instagram: @stateofwander Web: jennydwilliams.com

Bob Womer

Bob Womer lives in San Diego.