Cassndra Khaw (they/them) is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth, a Japanese haunted house story described as “sharp, playful, and nasty as hell,” and the Bram Stoker Award-winner, Breakable Things. Their novella The Salt Grows Heavy was a NYTimes and NPR Best Horror Book of 2023. Their book Hammers on Bone won a British Fantasy Award, and The All-Consuming World was named one of The Washington Post’s best science fiction, fantasy, and horror books of 2021. Their short fiction can be found in a myriad of places, including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Nature.
Khaw is also an award-winning game writer who has worked on games such as She Remembered Caterpillars (German Game Awards Best Children’s Game 2017), Wasteland 3, and Falcon Age. They have also done work for Magic: the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Critical Role, World of Darkness, and Warhammer 40k.
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November 2024 interview with Cassandra Khaw, Senior Editor Zahra Linsky, and Junior Editor Hannah Medina.
Kayleb Rae Candrilli writes about their experience growing up transgender in rural Pennsylvania and explores themes of transgender rights and environmental justice. They’re a recipient of a Whiting Award, a PEW fellowship, and an NEA fellowship, and they’re the author of Winter of Worship (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), Water I Won’t Touch (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), All the Gay Saints (Saturnalia Books, 2020), and What Runs Over (YesYes Books, 2017) with poems published or forthcoming in POETRY, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and others.
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February 2025 interview with Kayleb Rae Candrilli and Junior Editor Hannah Medina.