Breaking the Glass Slipper Creators & Guests

Lisa Yaszek is Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. She is particularly interested in issues of gender, race, and science and technology in science fiction across media as well as the recovery of lost voices in science fiction history and the discovery of new voices from around the globe.

Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction & fantasy writer, winner of the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and Kitschies for Best Debut Novel in 2011.

Alix E. Harrow is a writer and author of the book The Once and Future Witches.

Marissa Lingen is a science fiction and fantasy author known for her short stories.Lingen was trained in physics and mathematics, and worked for a time at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.Lingen's work has appeared in Analog, Ideomancer, Baen’s Universe, Clarkesworld, Futurismic, and several anthologies including David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer’s Year’s Best SF 15 (2010).

Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, and writer behind the award-nominated weekly newsletter, The Full Lid. He is a Hugo, BFA and Audioverse Award finalist, and co-owns the Escape Artists podcast network.For information on more of Alasdair’s projects, and other audio appearances such as Journey Into…, Angry Robot, and further Escape Artists episodes, please see his website: http://alasdairstuart.carrd.co/

Pat Cadigan is a science fiction author, known for writing in the cyberpunk style. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology.Cadigan's first novel, "Mindplayers," was published in 1988.

Ada Hoffman is the pseudonym of a speculative fiction and poetry author.Hoffman is also an adjunct Professor of computer science.

Nghi Vo is an author.

Aliette de Bodard is a science fiction writer. Although French is her first language, she writes in English.de Bodard works as a software engineer specialising in image processing.de Bodard is a graduate of École Polytechnique.

Veronica Anne Roth a novelist, short story writer, and author of the book Chosen Ones.

Melinda M. Snodgrass is a novelist, editor, screenwriter, dressage rider, and author of the book, The High Ground.

Sarah Gailey is the Hugo award-winning best-selling author.

VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the internationally acclaimed Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, the Cassidy Blake series and more. Her latest novel, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, will be adapted into a feature film by eOne and First Kill – a YA vampire series based on Schwab’s short story – is set to hit Netflix, produced by Emma Roberts’ Belletrist Productions. When she's not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters. Her newest book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, follows the title character across centuries and continents, across history and art, as she learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

New York Times bestselling author of October Daye, InCryptid, and more.

Charlie Jane Anders is a writer and commentator. She has written several novels and is the publisher of Other Magazine, the "magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts."

Aliya Whiteley is a novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Alex Acks (formerly known as Rachel Acks) is a science fiction writer and geologist.Acks's first book, "Hunger Makes the Wolf," was published in 2017. They also publish under the name Alex Wells. Their short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Giganotosaurus, Daily Science Fiction, and Lightspeed.

Alison J. Littlewood is a horror fiction writer, occasionally under the name A. J. Elwood.