FutureTalks
February 28th, 2021, Sunday
Mexico City 11 AM / Ottawa 12 PM / Brasília 2 PM / Rome 6 PM / Dubai 9 PM
Language: English
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Chinelo Onwualu (Nigerian living in Canada)
Cristina Jurado (Host, Spanish living in United Arab Emirates)
David Bowles (Mexican-American living in Mexico and US)
Phoenix Alexander (Greek-Cypriot living in UK)
Sara Saab (Lebanese living in UK)
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I am a Nigerian writer and editor living in Toronto, Canada. My short stories have been featured in Slate.com, Uncanny, and Strange Horizons, as well as in several anthologies including the award-winning New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction from People of Colour. You can find me on my website at: www.chineloonwualu.com or follow me on Twitter @chineloonwualu.
Cristina Jurado is a bilingual author and editor who writes in Spanish and English. She studied Advertising at the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) and holds a Master’s degree in Rhetoric from Northwestern University (USA). In 2019 she became the first female author to win the Best Novel Ignotus Award (Spain’s Hugo) for Bionautas.
Cristina Jurado (Madrid, 1972) es licenciada en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas por la Universidad de Sevilla y cuenta con un Máster en Retórica de Northwestern University (USA). Escritora bilingüe de ciencia ficción, fantasía y subgéneros híbridos, editora y traductora, es la primera mujer en obtener el Premio Ignotus a la Mejor Novela por Bionautas (Cerbero, 2018). Tiene en su haber el Premio Ignotus 2016 al Mejor Artículo y el Premio Ignotus 2017 al Mejor Relato por «La segunda muerte del padre» (Cuentos desde el Otro Lado. Nevsky, 2016). En su producción destacan su novela corta CloroFilia (Cerbero, 2017) y su libro de relatos en inglés Alphaland (Nevsky Books, 2018). Ha editado las antologías Alucinadas (Palabaristas, 2014), Spanish Women of Wonder (Palabaristas, 2016), WhiteStar (Palabaristas, 2016) e Infiltradas (Palabaristas 2019), y dirigido la revista SuperSonic, reconocida por la European Science Fiction Society como Mejor Zine en 2016 y Mejor Revista en 2017, y ganadora de los premios Ignotus a Mejor Revista en 2017, 2018 y 2019. Ha sido editora internacional para la norteamericana Apex magazine y co-editora de The Apex Book of World SF #5.
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from south Texas. Among his many award-winning titles are Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky; The Smoking Mirror; They Call Me Güero, and The Blue-Spangled Blue. His work has been published in multiple anthologies, plus venues such as The New York Times, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, The Dark, Latin American Literature Today, School Library Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children’s Literature. Additionally, David has worked on several TV/film projects, including Victor and Valentino (Cartoon Network), the Moctezuma & Cortés miniseries (Amazon/Amblin) and Monsters and Mysteries in America (Discovery).
Works:
https://firesidefiction.com/shapeshifting-sorcery-the-persistence-of-mesoamerican-magic
http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/h-word-mining-dark-latino-folklore/
https://psyche.co/ideas/learning-nahuatl-the-flower-song-and-the-poetics-of-life
https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=david-bowles-on-writing-for-border-kids-in-the-age-of-trump-op-ed
David Bowles es un autor y traductor mexicoamericano que radica en el sur de Texas. Entre sus muchos títulos premiados se encuentran Serpiente Emplumado, Corazón del Cielo; El espejo humeante; Me dicen güero; y The Blue-Spangled Blue. Su obra se ha publicado en múltiples antologías, además de periódicos y revistas como The New York Times, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, The Dark, Latin American Literature Today, School Library Journal, Rattle, Translation Review y Journal of Children’s Literature. Además, David ha trabajado en varios proyectos de TV / cine, incluidos Victor y Valentino (Cartoon Network), la miniserie Moctezuma y Cortés (Amazon / Amblin) y Monsters and Mysteries in America (Discovery).
I'm a queer, Greek-Cypriot writer and scholar of science fiction, fantasy and horror. I hold a Ph.D. in English and African American Studies from Yale University and am currently the Science Fiction Collections Librarian at the University of Liverpool, where I steward the largest collection of sf/f in Europe.
I have had work published in 'Black Static,' 'Beneath Ceaseless Skies', 'The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,' and 'Metaphorosis,' among others.
Sara Saab
Lebanon
Sara Saab was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and now lives in North London. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Shimmer, The White Review, and elsewhere.
February 28th, 2021, Sunday
Mexico City 1 PM / Ottawa 2 PM / Brasília 4 PM / Rome 8 PM / Dubai 11 PM
Language: English
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Andrea Chapela (Mexicona, Mexico)
Blanca Rodriguez (Hispacon, Spain)
Francesco Verso (FutureCon SF, Italy)
Gabriela Damián Miravete, host (Mexico)
Jeremy Torres Montero (Ouroboros, Peru)
Kali de los Santos, (Relampeio, Brazil)
L. D. Lewis (FIYAHCON)
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Andrea Chapela
Mexico
Andrea Chapela is a Mexican writer. She is the author of a YA Fantasy series, an essay collection, and two short story collections. She studied Chemistry at UNAM and has a Creative Writing in Spanish MFA from the University of Iowa. She's a graduate of Clarion West 2017 and part of the Mexicanx Initiative. She has received the National Gilberto Owen Literature Prize for Stories in 2018, the National Juan José Arreola Literature Prize in 2019, and the National Joven José Luis Martínez Essay Prize in 2019. In 2020 she took part in the organization of Mexicona: imaginación y futuro, a series of talks around sepculative literature. Her work has been published in English in Samovar, InTranslation, and TupeloQuarterly and is forthcoming in Lightspeed.
Blanca Rodríguez (A Coruña, 1978) studied Translation and Interpretation at the University of Vigo and has been a freelance translator since 2001. She’s very active in the Spanish fandom and has been involved as a volunteer in Cons and festivals such as the EurCon or Celsius 232. In January 2020, she became President of Pórtico (Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Terror), being the first woman to be elected for the position in Pórtico’s 29 years of history.
After 11 years focusing in technical texts, she switched to the publishing world, her true calling. She has translated authors such as Joseph Conrad, Kameron Jurley, Robert L. Stevenson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Stross, Sarah Pinborough or James Tiptree Jr, among others.
Blanca has published several short stories in specialised magazines and digital media. Her first children’s fantasy book, Las aventuras de Undine. La gran tormenta (Bambú) has sold over 5000 copies. Recently, she’s has finished the second book of the saga.
Blanca Rodríguez (A Coruña, 1978) estudió Traducción e Interpretación en la Universidad de Vigo y es traductora desde 2001. Muy implicada en el fandom español, ha sido voluntaria en festivales como la EuroCon o el Celsius 232 y, desde enero de 2020, es presidenta de Pórtico (Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror); la primera mujer que preside la asociación en su 29 años de historia.
Tras 11 años especializada en textos técnicos, decidió pasarse al mundo editorial, su verdadera vocación. Ha traducido a Joseph Conrad, Kameron Jurley, Robert L. Stevenson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Stross, Sarah Pinborough o James Tiptree Jr, entre otros.
Tiene varios relatos publicados en revistas especializadas y medios digitales. Su primer libro de fantasía infantil, 'Las aventuras de Undine. La gran tormenta' (Bambú) ha vendido 5000 ejemplares y actualmente acaba de terminar la segunda parte.
Gabriela Damián Miravete
Mexico
Mexico City native Gabriela Damián Miravete writes fiction and essays that embody her passion for fantasy and science fiction. She teaches film and literature; works in the Under the Volcano Writing Program; and is a founding member of the art and science collective Cúmulo de Tesla. Her stories are published in Three Messages and a Warning (World Fantasy Award finalist); Cuerpos: Fantascienza contemporanea spagnola e latino-americana, and Una realidad más amplia / A Larger Reality (part of The Mexicanx Initiative Scrapbook, Hugo Award Finalist), among others. She won the last edition of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, now Otherwise Award, with her short story “They Will Dream in the Garden”, about a future Mexico in which femicides no longer exist.
Gabriela Damián Miravete nació en la Ciudad de México. Escribe historias y ensayos que revelan su amor por la fantasía y la ciencia ficción. Es profesora y periodista de cine y literatura, forma parte del programa internacional de escritura Under the Volcano; es cofundadora del colectivo de arte y ciencia Cúmulo de Tesla, del Encuentro de Escritoras y Cuidados y de la MexiCona, festival de literatura especulativa. Sus historias han sido publicadas en numerosas antologías mexicanas de cuento y han sido traducidas al inglés e italiano en volúmenes como Three Messages and a Warning (antología finalista del World Fantasy Award); Cuerpos: Fantascienza contemporanea spagnola e latino-americana y Una realidad más amplia / A Larger Reality, parte de The Mexicanx Initiative Scrapbook, proyecto finalista de los premios Hugo. Fue ganadora de la última edición del premio James Tiptree, Jr. (hoy premio Otherwise) por “Soñarán en el jardín”, historia sobre un México futuro en el que los feminicidios no existen más.
Jeremy Torres-Montero
Peru
Jeremy Torres-Montero (Lima, 1987)
He is a Peruvian writer, manager of the publishing house Speedwagon Media Works and co-founder of Uróboros, a multidisciplinary diffusion platform for speculative fiction, terror and fantasy. He has published five books and his short stories appear in some Latin American magazines.
Jeremy Torres-Montero (Lima, 1987)
Escritor peruano, administrador de la casa editorial Speedwagon Media Works y co-fundador de Uróboros, una plataforma multidisciplinaria para la difusión de la ficción especulativa, el terror y la fantasía. Ha publicado cinco libros y sus cuentos han aparecido en algunas revistas Latinoamericanas.
Francesco Verso (Bologna, 1973) is one of the most interesting voices of contemporary Italian Science Fiction and editor of Future Fiction. Over the last 12 years he has won many SF awards and since 7 years he’s the editor of the multicultural project Future Fiction. His books include: Antidoti umani, e-Doll (Urania Award 2009), Nexhuman (Odissea and Italia Award 2013), Bloodbusters (Urania Award 2015) and I camminatori book I The Pulldogs and book II No/Mad/Land. His novels Nexhuman and Bloodbusters – translated in English by Sally McCorry – have been published in the US, UK and soon in China. His short stories appeared in many international magazines like Robot, Fantasy Magazine, Futuri, MAMUT, International Speculative Fiction #5, Chicago Quarterly Review #20, Words Without Borders and Future Affairs Administration. He has translated from English into Italian the works of Robert J. Sawyer, James Patrick Kelly, David Marusek, Ken Liu and others.
Together with Bill Campbell he has co-edited Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction (Rosarium Publishing, 2018). He has also edited an international SF anthology called What's the Future Like? for Guangzhou Blue Ocean Press that has been distributed to Chinese high schools and universities in 2019. He’s a public speaker and panelist to many SF Cons across the world, including WorldCons, EuroCons, and Chinese SF Conventions.
From 2014 he works as editor of Future Fiction, a multicultural project, scouting and publishing the best SF in translation from 10 languages and more than 20 countries with authors like James P. Kelly, Ian McDonald, Ken Liu, Xia Jia, Liu Cixin, Chen Qiufan, Pat Cadigan, Olivier Paquet, Vandana Singh, Fabio Fernandes, Ekaterina Sedia and others. He lives in Rome with his wife and daughter. He may be found online at www.futurefiction.org.
Francesco Verso (Bologna, 1973) è tra gli autori più interessanti di fantascienza degli ultimi anni ed editor di Future Fiction. Negli ultimi 12 anni ha vinto molti premi di Science Fiction e da 7 anni è l'editore del progetto multiculturale Future Fiction. I suoi includono: Antidoti umani, e-Doll (premio Urania 2008) e Livido (premio Odissea 2011 e Italia 2012), Bloodbusters (premio Urania 2015) e I camminatori (volume 1 The Pulldogs e volume 2 No/Mad/Land.) I suoi romanzi Nexhuman and Bloodbusters – tradotti in inglese da Sally McCorry – sono stati pubblicati negli Stati Uniti, Regno Unito e Cina.
Suoi racconti sono apparsi su riviste italiane e straniere come Robot, Futuri, Mamut, Chicago Quarterly Review #20, Future Affairs Administration e Words Without Borders. Ha tradotto in italiano alcuni racconti di Robert J. Sawyer, James Patrick Kelly, David Marusek, Ken Liu e altri.
Insieme a Bill Campbell ha curato l'antologia Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction (Rosarium Publishing, 2018). Ha inoltre curato un'antologia di Science Fiction intitolata What's the Future Like? per l'editore Guangzhou Blue Ocean Press che l'ha distribuita nei licei e nelle università cinesi nel 2019. Francesco Verso tiene convegni e organizza incontri in molte convention di Science Fiction, incluse le WorldCon, le EuroCon, e le convention cinesi di fantascienza.
Dal 2014 lavora come editor di Future Fiction, un progetto multiculturale, su cui pubblica la migliore fantascienza mondiale in traduzione da oltre 10 lingue e 20 paesi diversi con autori come James P. Kelly, Ian McDonald, Ken Liu, Xia Jia, Liu Cixin, Chen Qiufan, Pat Cadigan, Olivier Paquet, Vandana Singh, Fabio Fernandes, Ekaterina Sedia and others. Vive a Roma con la moglie Elena e la figlia Sofia. Lo trovate su www.futurefiction.org.
Kali de los Santos is a writer of horror, fantasy and science fiction and a narrative designer for videogames.
L. D. Lewis
United States
L.D. Lewis is an award-winning SF/F writer and editor, and serves as a founding creator, Art Director, and Project Manager for the World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo Award-nominated FIYAH Literary Magazine. She also serves as Grant Administrator for the Speculative Literature Foundation, FIYAHCON Director, and a researcher for the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. She is the author of A Ruin of Shadows (Dancing Star Press, 2018) and her published short fiction includes appearances in FIYAH, PodCastle, Strange Horizons, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, and Fireside Magazine, among others. She lives in Georgia with her coffee habit and an impressive Funko Pop! collection. Visit her website at ldlewiswrites.com and follow her on Twitter @ellethevillain.
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December 19th, 2020, Saturday
10am: Edmonton (Mountain Standard Time) | 11am: Oak Park (US Central Time) and Mexico City | 12pm (noon): Cleveland (US Eastern Time) | 2pm: Brasilia and Santiago del Chile | 6pm: Rome | 9pm: Dubai
Language: English
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Alec Nevala-Lee (USA)
Alexey Dodsworth (Brazil)
Fabio Fernandes (Brazil, host)
Jorge Baradit (Chile)
Marie Vibbert (USA)
Olav Rokne (Canada)
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Alec Nevala-Lee was a 2019 Hugo and Locus Award finalist for the group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Dey Street Books / HarperCollins), which was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Economist. He is the author of three suspense novels from Penguin, including The Icon Thief, and a frequent contributor to such publications as the New York Times and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Syndromes, an audio original collection of his short stories from Analog, was released in the spring by Recorded Books. His biography of the architectural designer Buckminster Fuller will be published by HarperCollins in 2021.
Alexey Dodsworth
Brazil
Alexey Dodsworth has a PhD in Philosophy. His thesis on transhumanism and space colonisation was developed at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice (Italy) and the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He is currently a researcher affiliated with the department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at the University of Venice and also member of the advisory committee of the Institute of Advanced and Convergent Studies at the Federal University of São Paulo. But his academic life is just a detail. He prefers to define himself as a science fiction writer.
Fábio Fernandes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1966, but lives in São Paulo, where he works as a professor in the Journalism course at PUC-SP. He translated dozens of books, including Clockwork Orange, O Homem do Castelo Alto and Neuromancer. He published stories in anthologies in Brazil and abroad. Among his books is the collection of short stories Interface com o Vampiro and the novels Os Dias da Peste and Back in the USSR. He studied at Clarion West, with Samuel Delany and Neil Gaiman as instructors, among others. Won three times the Argos Award for Fantastic Literature. He edited abroad, with Francesco Verso, the Solarpunk anthology - Come Ho Imparato ad Amare il Future (in Italian) and with Djibril al-Ayad, the anthology We See a Different Frontier (in English). Launched in Italian the collection L'Imitatore, in 2016. In 2021, will launch in English the collection Love: An Archeology and the steampunk novel Under Pressure, both in the UK)
Fábio Fernandes nasceu no Rio de Janeiro em 1966, mas vive em São Paulo, onde trabalha como professor no curso de Jornalismo da PUC-SP. Traduziu dezenas de livros, entre eles Laranja Mecânica, O Homem do Castelo Alto e Neuromancer. Tem histórias publicadas em antologias no Brasil e no exterior. Entre seus livros está a coleção de contos Interface com o Vampiro e os romances Os Dias da Peste e Back in the USSR. Estudou na renomada oficina literária Clarion West, tendo Samuel Delany e Neil Gaiman como instrutores, entre outros. Ganhou três vezes o Prêmio Argos de Literatura Fantástica. Editou no exterior, com Francesco Verso, a antologia Solarpunk - Come Ho Imparato ad Amare il Futuro (em italiano) e com Djibril al-Ayad, a antologia We See a Different Frontier (em inglês). Lançou em italiano a coletânea de contos L'Imitatore, em 2016. Em 2021, lançará em inglês a coletânea de contos Love: An Archaeology e a novela steampunk Under Pressure, no Reino Unido.
Jorge Baradit
Chile
He debuted in literature with “Ygdrasil” (published in Spain in 2007). A year later he wrote a short prequel of Ygdrasil, “Trinidad”, Polytechnic University of Catalonia Award.
From 2006 to 2008, he maintained the Ucronía Chile blog, and from that experience came the book “CHIL3: Relación del Reyno” (Ediciones B, 2010) with the co-editors Francisco Ortega, Álvaro Bisama, and Mike Wilson.
Baradit published “Synco” in 2008 and “Kalfukura” in 2009, and first graphic novel, “Policía del karma” in 2011 and his second, “Lluscuma”, in 2012. His first book of short stories, “La guerra interior”, was lauched in 2017.
“Historia secreta de Chile” is a non fiction awarded best seller with three volumes (2015 - 2017).
Marie Vibbert's works have appeared in Analog, F&SF, and Asimov's. Her debut novel, "Gallactic Hellcats" about a space biker gang, comes out March 2021. She played women's professional tackle football. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.
A journalist and photographer who has had work published in The Guardian, Strange Horizons, The London Metro, and The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe, Olav Rokne is a frequent volunteer at science fiction conventions. In 2020, he was invited to be on the judging panel of the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History. He and his partner Amanda Wakaruk edit the blog "An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog."
November 29th, 2020, Sunday
4am: California/Pacific Standard Time (PST) | 6am: Mexico City | 9am: Brasilia | 1pm: Rome | 4pm: Dubai | 8pm: Singapore/Manila | 11 pm: Sydney (AEDT)
Language: English
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Eliza Victoria (Philippines)
Isabel Yap (Philippines)
Victor Fernando Ocampo (Singapore/Philippines)
Vida Cruz (Philippines)
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Eliza Victoria
Philippines
Eliza Victoria is the author of several books including the Philippine National Book Award-winning Dwellers (2014), the novel Wounded Little Gods (2016), the graphic novel After Lambana (2016, a collaboration with Mervin Malonzo), and the science fiction novel-in-stories, Nightfall (2018). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several online and print publications, most recently in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction, The Apex Book of World SF Volume 5, and Future SF Digest. Her work has won prizes in the Philippines’ top literary awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her one-act plays (written in Filipino) have been staged at the Virgin LabFest at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Isabel Yap
Philippines / United States
Isabel Yap writes fiction and poetry, works in the tech industry, and drinks tea. Born and raised in Manila, she has also lived in California and London. She holds a BS in Marketing from Santa Clara University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2013 she attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, and since 2016 has served as Secretary for the Clarion Foundation. Her work has appeared in venues including Tor.com, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. Her debut short story collection will be published by Small Beer Press in 2021. She is @visyap on Twitter and her website is https://isabelyap.com.
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is a Singapore-based Filipino writer. He is the author of the International Rubery Book Award shortlisted The Infinite Library and Other Stories (Math Paper Press, 2017) and Here be Dragons (Canvas Press, 2015), which won the Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Award in 2012. His play-by-email interactive fiction piece “The Book of Red Shadows” debuted at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2020.
His writing has appeared in many publications including Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Likhaan Journal, Strange Horizons, Philippines Graphic, Science Fiction World and The Quarterly Literature Review of Singapore, as well as anthologies like The Best New Singapore Short Stories, Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, Maximum Volume: Best New Philippine Fiction, and the Philippine Speculative Fiction series.
He is a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America and a fellow of the Milford Science Fiction Writers’ Conference (UK).
Visit his blog at vrocampo.com or follow him on Twitter @VictorOcampo
Vida Cruz
Philippines
Vida Cruz's fiction has been published or is forthcoming from Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Expanded Horizons, and various anthologies, as well as been longlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. A Clarion graduate and a Tiptree/Otherwise Fellow, she is also a book editor with The Darling Axe.
She lives in Manila with her family and 10 memeable dogs.
October 29th, 2020, Thursday
10am: Los Angeles | 11am: Ciudad de Mexico | noon: Bogota | 1pm: Havana | 2pm: Brasília, Buenos Aires, and Santiago | 6pm: Rome | 9pm: Dubai
Language: English
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Alejandra Decurgez (Argentina)
Gabriela Damián Miravete (Mexico, mediator)
Maria Haskins (Canada/Sweden)
Rodrigo Bastidas (Colombia)
Rodrigo Juri (Chile)
Yasmin Silvia Portales-Machado (Cuba)
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Alejandra Decurgez
Argentina
She was born in 1977 and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has a degree in Psychology and she’s a yoga instructor. She took several courses on screenplay writing and attended Robert McKee’s Genre Seminar in Los Angeles.
She wrote the novels Limbo (published by Ediciones Ayarmanot, 2020), Colores Verdaderos (Niña Pez, 2019) and Mis Muertos Amarillos (Peces de Ciudad, 2018). Some of her short stories have been published by magazines such as Próxima, Axxón, Skeimbol, The Wax, Revista Minatura y SuperSonic. And her stories have been included in national and international anthologies such as Alucinadas II, Pelos de Punta, WhiteStar and Breves de Amor.
Her short screenplay The Dive was awarded an Honorable Mention in 2015 by the Fantasmagorical Film Festival of Kentucky, and was runner up in the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival the same year. Her short screenplay The Mantis was runner up in the same festivals during 2016.
Nació en Argentina en 1977 y vive en Buenos Aires. Es Licenciada en Psicología por la Universidad del Salvador e Instructora de Hatha Yoga. Se formó como guionista en el Sindicato de la Industria Cinematográfica Argentina y cursó el seminario sobre géneros cinematográficos dictado por Robert McKee.
Es autora de la novela Limbo (Ediciones Ayarmanot, 2020), Colores Verdaderos (Niña Pez, 2019) y Mis Muertos Amarillos (Peces de Ciudad, 2018). Algunos de sus relatos han sido publicados en Próxima, Axxón, Skeimbol, The Wax, Revista Minatura y SuperSonic. Forma parte de la antología internacional Alucinadas II, de la colección Pelos de Punta, de la antología internacional WhiteStar en honor a David Bowie y de Breves de Amor, de Editorial Sopa de Letras.
Ha recibido mención honorífica por su guión The Dive en el Fantasmagorical Film Festival de Kentucky del 2015 y fue finalista en el Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival del mismo año. En el 2016, su guión The Mantis fue finalista en los mismos festivales.
Gabriela Damián Miravete
Mexico
Mexico City native Gabriela Damián Miravete writes fiction and essays that embody her passion for fantasy and science fiction. She teaches film and literature; works in the Under the Volcano Writing Program; and is a founding member of the art and science collective Cúmulo de Tesla. Her stories are published in Three Messages and a Warning (World Fantasy Award finalist); Cuerpos: Fantascienza contemporanea spagnola e latino-americana, and Una realidad más amplia / A Larger Reality (part of The Mexicanx Initiative Scrapbook, Hugo Award Finalist), among others. She won the last edition of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, now Otherwise Award, with her short story “They Will Dream in the Garden”, about a future Mexico in which femicides no longer exist.
Gabriela Damián Miravete nació en la Ciudad de México. Escribe historias y ensayos que revelan su amor por la fantasía y la ciencia ficción. Es profesora y periodista de cine y literatura, forma parte del programa internacional de escritura Under the Volcano; es cofundadora del colectivo de arte y ciencia Cúmulo de Tesla, del Encuentro de Escritoras y Cuidados y de la MexiCona, festival de literatura especulativa. Sus historias han sido publicadas en numerosas antologías mexicanas de cuento y han sido traducidas al inglés e italiano en volúmenes como Three Messages and a Warning (antología finalista del World Fantasy Award); Cuerpos: Fantascienza contemporanea spagnola e latino-americana y Una realidad más amplia / A Larger Reality, parte de The Mexicanx Initiative Scrapbook, proyecto finalista de los premios Hugo. Fue ganadora de la última edición del premio James Tiptree, Jr. (hoy premio Otherwise) por “Soñarán en el jardín”, historia sobre un México futuro en el que los feminicidios no existen más.
Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She grew up, and debuted as a writer, in Sweden, but currently lives just outside Vancouver, Canada with a husband, two kids, several birds, a snake, and a very large black dog. Her work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside, Shimmer, Cast of Wonders, Black Static, Interzone, and elsewhere.
(Pasto, Colombia) PhD in Literature by Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. Bastidas is Editor-in-Chief of "Ediciones Vestigio", a Colombian publisher focused in science fiction, new weird, bizarre and weird narratives, with whom he published more than 15 books. He was a professor in Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidade Central de Bogotá and also has lectured with the Cátedra Carlos Fuentes de la Unam. In Editorial Planeta, Bastidas has published the Colombian SF anthologies Relojes que no marcan la misma hora (2017) and Cronómetros para el fin de los tiempos (2017). Bastidas is a columnist in various digital platforms, including Revista AlaFuera. Bastidas's past academic production includes theoretical and critical articles published in Spain, Argentina, Colombia and Peru. Currently, Bastidas is a scholar in Insituto Distrital para las Artes de Bogotá, with whom he develops a historiographical investigation about Colombian science fiction.
(Pasto, Colombia) PhD en Literatura de la Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. Es Editor General de “Ediciones Vestigio”, editorial colombiana que se enfoca en la publicación de ciencia ficción, new weird, bizarro y narrativa extraña; con quien ha publicado más de 15 libros. Ha sido docente en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, la Universidad Central de Bogotá y también ha dictado clases con la Cátedra Carlos Fuentes de la Unam. Con Editorial Planeta publicó las antologías de ciencia ficción colombiana Relojes que no marcan la misma hora (2017) y Cronómetros para el fin de los tiempos (2017). Es columnista de varios medios digitales entre los cuales está la Revista AlaFuera. Su producción académica previa incluye artículos teóricos y críticos publicados en España, Argentina, Colombia y Perú. Actualmente es becario del Insituto Distrital para las Artes de Bogotá, con quienes desarrolla una investigación historiográfica sobre la ciencia ficción colombiana.
Rodrigo Juri is a 48 years old author and retired high school biology teacher from Chile. His works have been published in portals, magazines, and anthologies from Chile, Argentina, Spain, France, and in Clarkesworld. An associate member of the SFWA, he is one of the founders of ALCiFF, the Chilean SF society. His last work, "Notes in the Supply of Raw Material in the Bodies Market" was published in the anthology "Recognizing Fascism" (World Weaver Press, 2020).
Rodrigo Juri, chileno, es profesor de ciencias retirado y escritor de ciencia ficción. Ha publicado sus historias en diversos portales, revistas y antologías en Chile, Argentina, España, Francia, además de la revista norteamericana Clarkesworld. Prontamente su cuento “Notes on the Supply of Raw Material in the Bodies Market” aparecerá en la antología de ciencia ficción política “Recognize Fascism”. Su primera novela, “El Último Horizonte de la Noche”, está disponible en Amazon KDP.
Yasmín S. Portales-Machado
Cuba
Yasmin is a journalist, web editor, literary critic, LGBTIQ activist, and fiction writer.
She has a Creative Writing Diploma from the Literary Formation Center "Onelio Jorge Cardoso" (2003), a B.A. in Theater Critic from the Cuban University of Arts (2007), and an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Oregon (2018). Since 2018, I am a Ph.D. student in Spanish & Portuguese and Gender & Sexuality Studies Cluster Fellow at Northwestern University.
Her research examines how the Spanish Caribbean Science Fiction Literature depicts sexualities and families, focusing on Cuba. She has published essays in the edited volumes Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), "La isla y las estrellas. El ensayo y la crítica de ciencia ficción en Cuba" (Editorial Cubaliteraria, 2015), "Anatomía de una isla. Jóvenes ensayistas Cubanos" (Ediciones La Luz, Cuba, 2015) and "Isla diseminada. Ensayos sobre Cuba" (Editorial Hypermedia, 2020, in press). Her fiction work had appeared in "Deuda temporal. Antología de narradoras cubanas de ciencia ficción" (Col. SurEditores, Cuba, 2015), "Sombras nada más. 36 escritoras cubanas contra la violencia hacia la mujer" (Ediciones UNION, Cuba, 2015), and "Órbita Juracán. Cuentos cubanos de ciencia ficción" (Voces de Hoy, Miami, 2016).
Subjects of interest: Cuba science fiction literature, public policies and cultural practices, Queer Theory, LGBTIQ rights, Marxism, science fiction cinema, and TV.
Yasmín es periodista cultural, editora web, crítica literaria, activista LGBTIQ y narradora.
Graduada del V Curso de Técnicas Narrativas del Centro de Formación Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso (2003). Licenciada en Arte Teatral, perfil Teatrología, por el Instituto Superior de Arte (2007). Master en Español, del Romance Languages Department, University of Oregon (2018). Desde 2018, estudiante de doctorado del Department of Spanish & Portuguese y estudiante asociada del Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University.
Su investigación examina cómo la ciencia ficción del Caribe hispanohablante representa familias y sexualidades, con foco en Cuba. He publicado ensayos en las antologías “Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), "La isla y las estrellas. El ensayo y la crítica de ciencia ficción en Cuba" (Editorial Cubaliteraria, 2015), "Anatomía de una isla. Jóvenes ensayistas Cubanos" (Ediciones La Luz, Cuba, 2015) y "Isla diseminada. Ensayos sobre Cuba" (Editorial Hypermedia, 2020, en prensa). Relatos suyos han aparecido en "Deuda temporal. Antología de narradoras cubanas de ciencia ficción" (Col. SurEditores, Cuba, 2015), "Sombras nada más. 36 escritoras cubanas contra la violencia hacia la mujer" (Ediciones UNION, Cuba, 2015), y "Órbita Juracán. Cuentos cubanos de ciencia ficción" (Voces de Hoy, Miami, 2016).
Áreas de interés: literatura cubana de ciencia ficción, políticas públicas y consumo cultural, teoría queer, derechos LGBTIQ, marxismo, cine y TV de ciencia ficción.