
Part of Series
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. Table of Contents Fiction: “I Am Thinking of You in the Places Between” Shira Lipkin “To the Mistress of the Labyrinth Give Honey” Heather McDougal “A Life in Fictions” Kat Howard Poetry: “Hot Wet Mess" SJ Tucker “In Search of North Countrie" Amal El-Mohtar Nonfiction: Interview with R.A. Salvatore John H. Stevens This issue of Apex Magazine was edited by NYT Bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente.
Authors

Kat Howard is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror who lives and writes in Minnesota. Her novella, The End of the Sentence, co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, was one of NPR's best books of 2014, and her debut novel, Roses and Rot was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. An Unkindness of Magicians was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, and won a 2018 Alex Award. Her short fiction collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, collects work that has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, performed as part of Selected Shorts, and anthologized in year’s best and best of volumes, as well as new pieces original to the collection. She was the writer for the first 18 issues of The Books of Magic, part of DC Comics' Sandman Universe. Her next novel, A Sleight of Shadows, the sequel to An Unkindness of Magicians, is coming April 25, 2023. In the past, she’s been a competitive fencer and a college professor. You can find her @KatwithSword on Twitter and on Instagram. She talks about books at Epigraph to Epilogue.