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. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore Fiction The Laura Ingalls Experience—Andrew Neil Gray The Teratologist's Brother—Brandon H. Bell The Quidnunx—Catherynne M. Valente Collecting James—Geoffrey Girard Nonfiction Interview with Author Andrew Neil Gray—Andrea Johnson Interview with Sarah Zar, Cover Artist—Russell Dickerson Poetry Fertility—Craig Finlay The Farmer's Milk—John Yu Branscum Myth of the Mud God—Michael VanCalbergh Song of the Encantado—Jeremy Paden Cover art by Sarah Zar.
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.
Andrew Gray‘s most recent publication is the novella The Ghost Line, co-written with J.S. Herbison. His short fiction has appeared in numerous speculative fiction magazines, including Nature Futures, Apex Magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Sockdolager and On Spec. He was awarded On Spec’s Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize, has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for Fiction and has been shortlisted several times for the CBC/Saturday Night Literary Award. He was the runner-up prize winner in the 2015 Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition. His first collection of stories, Small Accidents, was published by Raincoast Books and was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Award at the BC Book Prizes and an IPPY award in the US. He lives with his family and several cranky chickens on Canada’s West Coast.
