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 Glimmerglass Girl (Finishing Line Press, 2018). In Houston, she collaborates with Writespace, Comicpalooza, writers, artists, and creative communities to make the writing world a more fantastical place.
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Michael Glazner - Managing Editor, Captain of Interstellar Flight Magazine
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Michael Glazner's writing has appeared in Literally Stories, After the Pause, and the daily newspaper of Tutrakan, Bulgaria. Southwestern University awarded him a BA in Communication and he teaches high school English in the Houston area. When not reading, writing, or editing genre fiction, he enjoys time spent with his dogs and strong cups of coffee.
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K. Walton - Captain of Interstellar Flight Magazine
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K Walton is an author and devotee of all things SFF. They hold a B.S. in Political Science and put it to work in twisted ways by writing speculative fiction and analyzing huge amounts of media across genres. They're also a food justice advocate and creator of the forthcoming indie serial Ain't No Way Back Home. They live in the mountains of Western North Carolina with their partner and overflowing vegetable garden.
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K. James D'Agostino - Slush Adventurer
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K. James D'Agostino is an author of literary and speculative fiction. He has a BA from the University of Houston and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Illinois, where he works as an editorial assistant at Ninth Letter literary journal. He has worked as a teacher, editor, and speaker in Houston's literary community for years. He is proud of the time he spent as a workshop leader with the Writespace studio, and as the Director of Publications for the Houston Writers Guild. His debut novella, Absolute Tenacity, was published in 2014, followed by another novella, Atargatis, in 2015.
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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. |
Hugo Esteban Rodríguez - Slush Adventurer
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Hugo Esteban Rodríguez is a Mexican-American educator, writer, poet, and essayist hailing from Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of "...And Other Stories" (2018, La Casita Grande Editores) as well as numerous other short stories, poems, and essays that have appeared in places like The Airgonaut, The Acentos Review, Spirit's Tincture, HeART Journal, Picaroon Poetry, and the Texas Poetry Calendar. His story "The Ritual" was longlisted for Wigleaf's Top 50 and nominated by The Airgonaut for Pushcart prize and Best of the Net consideration. He is formerly an assistant editor for Bartleby Snopes. He graduated from the University of Texas at Brownsville and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He lives in northwest Houston with his wife and their three furchildren.
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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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Jamileh Jemison - Slush Adventurer
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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.
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Deborah L. Davitt - Poetry Slush Adventurer
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Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations; her short fiction has appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, Compelling Science Fiction, and Intergalactic Medicine Show. For more about her work, including her Edda-Earth novels and her poetry collection, The Gates of Never, please see www.edda-earth.com.
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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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