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. EDITORIAL Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore FICTION Queen of Dirt—Nisi Shawl You Too Shall Be Psyche—Rich Larson The Bells—Lyndsie Manusos Servant of the Aswang—Samuel Marzioli FLASH FICTION WINNERS As Long As You Can Stand It—Joanna Truman Butterfly Man—Tonya Walter St. Theophilus the Penitent—Rich Larson NONFICTION Interview with Author Nisi Shawl—Andrea Johnson Feature with LifeAfter Podcast Playwright Mac Rogers—Jason Sizemore Interview with Cover Artist Adrian Borda—Russell Dickerson POETRY Fury—Simona Sušec
Authors
Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. Since he began writing in 2011, he’s sold over a hundred stories, the majority of them speculative fiction published in magazines like Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. His work appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, French and Italian. Annex, his debut novel and first book of The Violet Wars trilogy, comes out in July 2018 with Orbit Books. Tomorrow Factory, his debut collection, follows in October 2018 with Talos Press. Besides writing, he enjoys travelling, learning languages, playing soccer, watching basketball, shooting pool, and dancing kizomba.
Lyndsie Manusos’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tor.com, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, and other publications. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prize and appeared on Locus Magazine's Annual Recommended Reading List. Her debut novella, FROM THESE DARK ABODES, is forthcoming from Psychopomp press in Summer 2024. She lives in central Indiana with her family, where she works as a bookseller for her local indie, Wild Geese Bookshop. She also is a senior contributor at Book Riot.
