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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. Fiction: "The Leavings of the Wolf" — Elizabeth Bear "The Bread We Eat in Dreams" — Catherynne M. Valente "This Creeping Thing" — Robert Shearman Poetry: "Lion Heart" — Tim Pratt "Wight" — Bryan Thao Worra "Swallowing the Moon" — Bryan Thao Worra Nonfiction: "Blood on Vellum: Notes from the (New) Apex Magazine Editor" — Lynne M. Thomas "The Australian Dark Weird" — Tansy Rayner Roberts "Editorial: Good-bye" — Catherynne M. Valente Interviews: Elizabeth Bear Scott Murphy Lynne M. Thomas Apex Magazine is edited by Hugo Award-winner Lynne M. Thomas.
Authors
Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan. She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.
Bryan Thao Worra is the first Laotian American writer to hold a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the award-winning author of several books including DEMONSTRA, On The Other Side Of The Eye, BARROW, Winter Ink, Tanon Sai Jai, Touching Detonations, and The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: My Dinner With Cluster Bombs. He is the creative works editor for the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement and the Arts and Entertainment Editor for Asian American Press. He works actively to support the work of Lao and Southeast Asian American writers across the country.
Tansy Rayner Roberts is a fantasy and science fiction author who lives in southern Tasmania, somewhere between the tall mountain with snow on it, and the beach that points towards Antarctica. Tansy has a PhD in Classics (with a special interest in poisonous Roman ladies), and an obsession with Musketeers. You can hear Tansy talking about Doctor Who on the Verity! podcast. She also reads her own stories on the Sheep Might Fly podcast.
