Contributors & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EDITORS

Francesco Verso is one of the most interesting Science Fiction authors of recent years. Since 2008 he has devoted himself full time to publishing, both as a genre author and as editor of the Future Fiction project. He has writtenAntidoti umani, e-Doll(2008 Urania Mondadori Award) andLivido(Odissea Award and Italy 2012 Award), published by Apex Books in the United States and by Bofeng in China with the title ofNexhuman. In 2015 he won a second Urania award withBloodbusterswhich was released in the UK by Luna Press and in China by Bofeng. His latest novel, of the solarpunk genre, is calledThe Walkersand is made ofThe PulldogsandNo/Mad/Land.

His stories have appeared in Italian and foreign magazines and anthologies such asRobot, Futuri, Mamut, Chicago Quarterly Review # 20, Future Affairs Administration, Words Without Borders, The Dying Planet, Sunspot Jungle and The Best of World SF # 1.

Since 2014 he's been working as the editor of Future Fiction on which he publishes the best World Science Fiction in translation from 13 languages ​​and more than 35 countries. In 2019 he won the Golden Dragon for the promotion of international Science Fiction and the Best Science Fiction Editor Award by the European Science Fiction Society; he's also the Honorary Director of the Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Academy in Chongqing (China) where he runs an international creative writing course called the Future Fiction Workshop.

AUTHORS

Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana writer (xe/xem/xer or she/her pronouns). Tlotlo’s novella, The Silence of the Wilting Skin, is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist and was shortlisted for a 2021 Nommo Award. Xer story “Behind Our Irises” is the joint winner of the Nommo Award for Best Short Story (2021), the first Motswana to win the award. Xer short story "Dreamports" was longlisted for a BSFA Award. Xer short fiction has appeared in The Best of World SF Volume 1, Clarkesworld, Terraform, Africanfuturism Anthology, The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), Apex Magazine and is forthcoming in Africa Risen and Chiral Mad 5, Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition and other publications. Xe was the first Motswana to be a 2017 Rhysling Award nominee. Xe is a 2011 Bessie Head Short Story Award winner. You can find xem at tlotlotsamaase.com and on Instagram and Twitter at @tlotlotsamaase.

Toni Moraes is a Latin American man born in 1986 in Belém do Pará, Amazon region, northern Brazil. He graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pará and has worked in the publishing market since 2015. He is editor of Monomito Editorial, publishing contemporary literature from Brazil and other Latin American countries, with special attention to the various aspects of fantastic literature. In 2017 he published the novel “O ano em que conheci meus pais” (The year I met my parents) and in 2018 the book of short stories “Eu estou morto” (I am dead). In addition to these publications, he has participated in several collections of short stories in Brazil and Spain. He is a master's student in the Brazilian Literature program at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo, where he studies aspects of violence in the work “Cinzas do Norte”, by the writer Milton Hatoum.

Chinelo Onwualu is co-editor of Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Her short stories have been featured in Slate.com, Uncanny, Apex and Strange Horizons as well as in several anthologies including the Locus Award-winning New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction from People of Colour, The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020 and 2021’s Best of World SF Vol.1. She's been nominated for the British Science Fiction Awards, the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction, and the Short Story Day Africa Award. You can find her on her website at: www.chineloonwualu.com or follow her on Twitter @chineloonwualu.

Mame Bougouma Diene is a Franco –Senegalese American humanitarian with a fondness for progressive metal, tattoos and policy analysis. He is the francophone spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society (http://www.africansfs.com/), the French language editor for Omenana Magazine, and a regular columnist at Strange Horizons. You can find his fiction and nonfiction work in Omenana, Galaxies SF, Edilivres, Fiyah! Truancy Magazine, EscapePod, Mythaxis and TorDotCom; and in anthologies such as AfroSFv2; V3 (Storytime), Myriad Lands (Guardbridge Books), You Left Your Biscuit Behind (Fox Spirit Books), This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck Wit (Clash Media), Africanfuturism (Brittle Paper), Dominion (Aurelia Leo), and the upcoming Africa Risen (TorDotCom). He was nominated for two Nommo Awards and his debut collection Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Nights (Clash Books) was nominated for the 2019 Splatterpunk Award.

Gabriela Damián Miravete (Mexico City, 1979) writes stories and essays. She is a professor of cinema and literature, co-founder of the art and science collective Cúmulo de Tesla and the Speculative Literary Festival in Spanish Mexicona. Her stories have been published and translated into English, Italian, French and Portuguese in volumes such as A larger reality / A Larger Reality, part of The Mexicanx Initiative Scrapbook, a finalist project of the Hugo Awards and Three Messages and a Warning, finalist of the World Fantasy Award. She was the winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award (now Otherwise Award) for "Soñarán en el Jardín", a story about a future Mexico in which femicides no longer exist. Soon her short story collection La canción detrás de todas las cosas will be published by the independent project Odo Ediciones. Twitter: @gabrielintica. Instagram: @miradavaga

Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is the author of the International Rubery Book Award shortlisted The Infinite Library and Other Stories (Math Paper Press, 2017 ; US edition: Gaudy Boy, 2021) 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, the Philippine Speculative Fiction series and Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction. He is a fellow at the Milford Science Fiction Writers’ Conference (UK) and the Cinemalaya Ricky Lee Film Scriptwriting Workshop, as well as a Jalan Besar writer-in-residence at Sing Lit Station (2020/2021). Visit his blog at vrocampo.com or follow him on Twitter @VictorOcampo

Aline Valek is a Brazilian writer and illustrator, living in Munich, Germany. Born in Minas Gerais, also the birthplace of renowned author João Guimarães Rosa, and raised in the airplane-shaped “utopian” city of Brasília, Aline has written and self-published since her teenage years. Since the beginning of her career, Aline made the internet her creative territory. Her work is multiplatform: she creates across a variety of spaces, including her blog, newsletter, fanzines, podcasts and books. Aline has several short-stories published in anthologies and magazines. She has self-published her own collections of short-stories, including her most recent work, Neuroses a Varejo (Retail Neuroses), a collection that explores the lives of four women dealing with absurd disorders. Author of the oceanic sci-fi novel As Águas-vivas Não Sabem De Si(Jellyfish Lack Self Awareness) and the apocalyptic portrait of Brazil in the novel Cidades afundam em dias normais(Cities Sink on Normal Days), Aline introduces her readers to new worlds through the lens of intriguing, intelligent, complex female protagonists. Aline also tells stories about the hidden wonders of history, science, art and language in her podcast Bobagens Imperdíveis (Shenanigans You Can’t Miss). More about her work can be found on her online planet: alinevalek.com.br

When he is not busy constructing stellar engines in his mind, Soham Guha finds himself often in his suburban home near Kolkata (India). He writes in his mother tongue, Bengali, and English as well. His works were published in Kalpabiswa.com, Scroll.in, Matti Braun’s Monologue, Mithila Review, Mohs 5.5: Megastructure Anthology, and The Gollancz Anthology of South Asian Science Fiction Vol II.  He is currently working on his novel.

 Translators

Robin Myers is a poet, essayist, and translator. Recent and forthcoming book-length translations include Bariloche by Andrés Neuman (Open Letter Books), Salt Crystals by Cristina Bendek (Charco Press), Copy by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), and The Restless Dead by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020). She lives in Mexico City.

G. Holleran is a writer and translator based in New England, United States. Holleran is currently a PhD student in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory and holds a Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship with Tagus Press/Center for Portuguese Studies & Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. An editor-at-large for Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation, Holleran’s recent translations have been published in The Shoutflower, Brittle Paper, Gávea-Brown, and Saccades Review.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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This work is part of the project “CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents”. The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 852190 (ERC Starting Grant 2019).