We are Interstellar Flight Press
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Holly Lyn Walrath - Managing Editor, Founder
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Holly Lyn Walrath is a freelance editor and author based out of Houston, Texas. She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Smallest of Bones (2020).
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Sydney Richardson - Co-Captain, Interstellar Flight Magazine
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Sydney Richardson: A fairly average person through and through, Sydney is a born and raised Jersey girl with a Bachelor’s in Liberal Studies from Syracuse University. Unable to settle in one place, she’s constantly changing cities, but the one constant has been her lifelong love of speculative fiction. You can find some of Sydney’s work at Anathema Magazine, and the Decoded 2020 Pride Anthology, and you can probably find her reading the poetic works of Nikki Giovanni.
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Elliot - Associate Editor, Audiobooks
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Elliot works in research publishing, and is an advocate for open access science and open data. He likes all genre fiction, especially pieces with dark and unpleasant edges that make it difficult to sleep after reading. He's also slightly too obsessed with Doctor Who for his own good.
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​Jamileh Jemison - Slush Adventurer, Guest Editor, Writer
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Jamileh Jemison balks at bios, but has lived at least six lives of her own making (so far), and many hundreds more through reading. Inspired early on by Harriet the Spy, Sherluck Bones, and The Wind in the Willows, observation, reinvention, ditching chores for adventure, and believing animals (and plants) might just talk to her are all active threads in her life. After earning three degrees in biology, Jamileh decided to work in the field to support her book habit. When not reading, she enjoys being a novice at multiple arts, and does actually smile IRL.
Ren Hutchings is an SFF author, writing mentor and freelance editor. She spent most of the past few years working in game dev while plotting twisty space books. She loves weird mysteries, pop science, elaborate book playlists, and pondering about alternate universes. Ren’s debut novel, Under Fortunate Stars, will be published by Solaris in May 2022.
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J.C. Rodriguez - Slush Adventurer
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J.C. Rodriguez is a queer pinoy-latinx poet and educator from Westbury, NY. His writing has appeared in Voicemail Poems, Meow Meow Pow Pow, Tilde~ A Literary Journal and elsewhere. More notable poets have remarked on his uncanny ability to post thirst traps on Instagram. He occasionally releases zines under his “imprint”, Follow the Sea. He is probably buried in a role-playing game right now.
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Archita Mittra - Writer, Slush Adventurer
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Archita Mittra is a writer and artist, with a love for all things vintage, whimsy, and darkly fantastical. She also reads tarot cards, has more hobbies than she can count and loves blueberry milkshakes. She's currently pursuing her Master's in English Literature from Jadavpur University and lives in Kolkata (India) with her family and rabbits. Her work has been published in Strange Horizons, Mithila Review, Thought Catalog, and elsewhere. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @architamittra and check out her blog here.
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Laura - Slush Adventurer
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Laura is a Chattanooga native of 26 years. She received her BA in English with a minor in Latin from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2017 and has been working as a Paralegal ever since. Her research on fictional languages titled “Tolkien’s Linguistics: The Artificial Languages of Quenya and Sindarin” has been published in the NCUR Proceedings 2016 issue and has been presented at multiple conferences. In her free time, Laura enjoys boxing, reading, horseback riding, attending music festivals, and questing in Azeroth with her nerdy friends.
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Jessica Fabrizius - Slush Adventurer
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Plucked from wonderful, windy Wyoming by fate and transplanted to the Pacific Northwest, Jessica Fabrizius is the proud mother of things furry, lifter of things heavy, baker of things sweet, and writer of things on occasion. When she’s not busy with the above, her MS in publishing science sometimes comes in handy for her work as an editor with Pulp Literature Press.
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Cassandra Rose Clarke - Slush Adventurer, Author
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Cassandra Rose Clarke's novels have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, and YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her poetry has placed second in the Rhysling Awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Her latest novel is Halo: Battle Born, out now from Scholastic.
Cassandra graduated in 2006 from The University of St. Thomas with a B.A. in English, and two years later she completed her master’s degree in creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in Seattle, where she was a recipient of the Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund. She is currently the associate director for a Houston-based literary arts nonprofit, Writespace. |
J.B. Rockwell - Slush Adventurer
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J.B. Rockwell once dreamed of being the next Indiana Jones, but several moves and a SCUBA certification later, she ended up working for the US Coast Guard in IT. True to her 'I can't decide what I want be when I grow up' nature, she holds Bachelors degrees in Anthropology and Environmental Science and later earned a MBA. In her spare time, she writes speculative fiction (including the Serengeti sci-fi series from Severed Press) and Bad Movie Reviews for indie books and film review site Sci-Fi & Scary.
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Leslie Archibald - Poetry Slush Adventurer
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Leslie Archibald is a graduate of the University of Houston, majoring in English, Creative Writing with a minor in Women’s Studies and currently works at a full-time office position while writing and editing part time. Leslie volunteers at Writespace, a Houston Writer’s organization, and is currently submitting applications to masters programs. Leslie is the winner of the 2017 Spider Road Press Spider’s Web Flash fiction competition. Her winning piece “Sherry Baby” is included in the special section of Companion of the Ash released in December 2018. Her work may also be found in Tales of Texas Vol 2 and on Silver Needle Press’s winners’ page.
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Charlotte Cowie - Slush Adventurer
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Charlotte Cowie is terrible at writing bios (mostly because she's sort of boring). Charlotte is a freelance editor, reader, and all-around geek. She has degrees in business and education from the University of Alberta and is currently enrolled in the editing certificate program at Simon Fraser University in Canada. When she's not reading or editing, she can usually be found crocheting or perfecting Pinterest fails in different art mediums (to her kids' never-ending amusement). Charlotte lives in western Canada with her family, several TBR piles, and a dust bunny colony.
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Matt Mattila - Slush Adventurer
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Matthew O'Connor-Mattila has short fiction and nonfiction in over a dozen magazines online and in print. He lives and will probably die in Groton, CT.
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Lori Propheter - Slush Adventurer
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Lori Propheter lives in her hometown of DeKalb, Illinois. She has a master's degree in creative writing from Illinois State University. Her poems appear in Cream City Review, Storm Cellar, and other journals, and her chapbook, Wendy Inbetween, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She has long-standing fascinations with body horror and plants, and is currently interested in Norse mythology and magnets.
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Kevin Casin - Slush Adventurer
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I am a Cuban-Colombian-American fiction writer and heart researcher. I was born and raised in Miami, Florida, lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and now I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I graduated with a Ph.D. physiology and molecular biology from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Biology, with an English minor, from Florida International University. As a frequent traveler, I love adventure and discovering quirky stories to write about. To relax, apart from writing, I play guitar and piano, and I fumble through French pastry recipes. My Twitter name is @kevinthedruid. My website is https://kevinmcasin.com/.
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Bri Downing - Slush Adventurer
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Bri Downing is an aspiring author from Louisiana. In college, she worked as a feature writer and proofreader at her hometown newspaper, before earning degrees in psychology, forensic psychology, and applied behavior analysis. She is a supporting member of the Horror Writers Association and a member of the Houston Independent Writers Group. When she's not writing, you can find her causing mayhem in her Dungeons and Dragons campaign, making spooky soap, and eating all the carbs. She lives in Houston with her husband and two cats.
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Angelina Li is a queer and non-binary Chinese-Canadian writer of subversive anti-heroines, queer spacefarers, and wayward wuxia. She especially champions diasporic writing, Chinese sci-fi, and other works that defy Western expectations. Outdoors, they can be found on horseback; indoors, they’re reading and writing or, if not, adventuring in an RPG.
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B. Rae Grosz is a Pittsburgh-born writer of poetry and prose and can make pierogies from scratch. She loves genre fiction, especially with gothic elements, and is particularly fond of folklore, fairy tales, and ghost stories. She shares free short fiction on her TweetFic account @anotherStorying and can also be found on her main Twitter account @braegrosz and on Instagram @b.raegrosz. When not reading or writing, she spends most of her time with her dog.
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As a fine art professional, Marissa James has wielded katanas and handled Lady Gaga's shoes. As a veterinary assistant, she has cared for hairless cats, hedgehogs, and, one time, a coyote. As a writer, her short fiction can be found in Flash Fiction Online, Etherea, Mysterion, and many other publications. She is a recipient of the Ladies of Horror Fiction grant, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a reader for Interstellar Flight Press. She resides in the Pacific Northwest and can be found tweeting about all things writing @MaroftheBooks.
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