Lauren Rudin
Lauren Rudin loves to read and write speculative fiction. Her favorite authors include Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Elizabeth Wein. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in psychology in Pennsylvania.
Patricia Russo
Victoria Sandbrook
Victoria Sandbrook is a speculative fiction writer, freelance editor and reviewer, and Viable Paradise graduate. Her short fiction has appeared in Sword & Sonnet, Podcastle, Shimmer, and elsewhere. Victoria and her family live in Brockton, Massachusetts. She reviews books and shares writerly nonsense at victoriasandbrook.com and on Twitter at @vsandbrook.
E. Saxey
E. Saxey is a queer Londoner who works in universities and volunteers in libraries. Their first collection of short weird fiction is Lost in the Archives from Lethe Press. Their debut novel Unquiet, a Gothic story which wanders into folk horror, was published by Titan Books in July 2023.
Mathew Scaletta
Mathew Scaletta is a fishmonger and chef who divides his time between Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago and Oregon’s Willamette Valley. When not elbow-deep in fish guts, he writes fiction and tweets about the black bears that stalk the periphery of his salmon cannery. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, such fine publications as […]
Claire Scherzinger
Claire Scherzinger lives in the woods in Washington State, where they practice writing daily. Their work has been previously published or is forthcoming in Mythaxis, Samjoko, Andromeda Spaceways, and Planet Scumm. They exist online at www.clairescherzinger.com.
Rebecca Schneider
Rebecca Schneider is a reference librarian and graduate of the 2019 Futurescapes Workshop. A native of New England, she currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she spends her days listening to podcasts, attempting to identify trees, and writing three novels at once.
John M. Shade
John M. Shade lives in Houston, Texas and has had work appear in Daily Science Fiction and Everyday Weirdness. He attends the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing, and is at work on his first novel, and a graphic novel.
Iona Sharma
Iona is a writer, lawyer and linguaphile, and the product of more than one country. Other than speculative fiction, she’s interested in politics and land rights. Her other stories may be found at generalist.org.uk/iona and she tweets as @singlecrow.
J. M. Sidorova
J.M. Sidorova is a biomedical scientist and a writer of speculative fiction. As a scientist, she sometimes can’t help but think of living cells as stupendous machines, other times — as stupid rat’s nests. As a writer, she tries to make such suppositions into stories. J.M. is a Clarion West workshop graduate of 2009. Her […]