Announcing the Authors for Being Ace!

I am so excited to announce the amazing line-up for Being Ace!

We’ve all been hard at work on revisions and edits for this ace-spec anthology, working with Tamara Grasty, a wonderful editor at Page Street, and now I’m so excited to share with you all who are authors are!

Lara Ameen

Lara Ameen is a screenwriter, fiction writer, sensitivity reader, and PhD candidate in Education with a Disability Studies emphasis at Chapman University. She received an MFA in Screenwriting from California State University, Northridge, and her scripts have placed in Screencraft’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy Screenwriting Competition, Launchpad TV Pilot Competition, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and others. Her YA Contemporary Fantasy novel, SPAER, was awarded a disabled writers’ grant from Suffering the Silence, longlisted in Voyage YA’s First Chapters Contest, and their Book Pitch Contest. A graduate of the Tin House YA Fiction Workshop, Futurescapes Writers’ Workshop, and a Lambda Literary Screenwriting Fellow, her short fiction has been published in Prismatica Magazine, Disabled Voices Anthology, Flash Fiction Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, just femme & dandy, and elsewhere. She is also a contributor to the anthology, Being Ace.

S.E. Anderson

S.E. ANDERSON is the author of the YA science fiction humor series THE STARSTRUCK SAGA, as well as a YA contemporary novel, AIX MARKS THE SPOT, based on her childhood in Provence. Currently, she is working on her PhD of Astrophysics and Planetary sciences in Besançon, France. Come say hello at www.seandersonauthor.com.

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Akemi Dawn Bowman

Akemi Dawn Bowman is a critically-acclaimed author who writes across genres. Her novels include William C. Morris Award Finalist Starfish, The Infinity Courts series, Summer Bird Blue, Harley in the Sky, Generation Misfits, and Where the Lost Ones Go. She has written short fiction for Magic: The Gathering, and has contributed to several upcoming anthologies. She has a BA in social sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and currently lives in Scotland with her family. She overthinks everything, including this bio.

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Jas Brown

Jas Brown wears many hats. In addition to being an aroace, nonbinary author, they’re also a TTRPG player, server, and kdrama enthusiast. They hail from the Pacific Northwest of the US, but plan to travel all over in search of themselves (and good food). They have several previous publications, most notably in the anthology A PIZZA MY HEART (PIZZATHOLOGY 1), edited by Jolene Haley. When they’re not writing or playing Dungeons & Dragons, they’re singing, drawing, and listening to BTS.

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Cody Daigle-Orians

Cody Daigle-Orians is an asexuality writer, educator and advocate. He is the creator of “Ace Dad Advice,” a social media-based ace education project that creates empowering content for young ace and questioning people, and he is the author of the book I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life. Cody lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Madeline Dyer

Madeline Dyer (she/her) is a novelist, poet, and screenwriter. She teaches writing and is currently pursuing her MFA from Kingston University London. In 2020, Madeline founded YA Thriller Con, a yearly online celebration of everything thriller, crime, and mystery. She has a herd of Shetland ponies, loves anything ghostly, and can frequently be found exploring wild places. At least one notebook is known to follow her everywhere she goes. Madeline is the SIBA award-winning author of the Untamed series and the Dangerous Ones trilogy, the editor of the Being Ace anthology, and co-editor of the Unbound anthology which placed first for Best Anthology 2021 with Suspense Magazine and was named a finalist for Foreword Reviews 2021 Best Anthology. She also writes romance and women’s fiction as Elin Annalise, where her books include the Aces in Love series.

K Hart

K Hart is a volunteer with addiction recovery services by day, writer of the weird and wonderful by night. They live in the UK and spend their time devouring every fantasy novel they can get their hands on. They have an absurd taste in clothes and they don’t know how to internet properly. They can be found shouting into the void at @FlorianKHart on Twitter.

Moniza Hossain

Moniza Hossain is a Singaporean author of Bengali descent who writes books full of magic and wonder for children. When she’s not busy writing, she teaches English literature and paints dragons. She lives in Singapore with her family. 

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Anju Imura

Anju Imura is a Japanese-Italian writer born in Frankfurt, Germany, raised in London, and then raised in Frankfurt again, where they currently reside. When not ambitiously reworking East Asian history into fiction, they brew bitter green tea while musing about the creative process and picking apart the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki. Ever the hermit crab, you might catch them lurking on Twitter (@ImuraAnju) from time to time.

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Linsey Miller

Once upon a time, Linsey Miller studied biology in Arkansas. These days, she holds an MFA in fiction and can be found writing about science and magic anywhere there is coffee. She is the author of the Mask of Shadows duology, Belle Révolte, The Game, What We Devour, and the upcoming Disney Princes books for Eric and Phillip. Visit her at linseymiller.com.

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RoAnna Sylver

RoAnna Sylver is the author of the CHAMELEON MOON and STAKE SAUCE series, as well as interactive fiction like DAWNFALL and THE GREAT BATSBY – and passionate about stories that give hope, healing and even fun for LGBQTIA+, disabled and other marginalized people, and thinks we need a lot more. RoAnna is a member of the SFWA as well as a founding member of Kraken Collective Books, and highly recommends you check them out.

SJ Taylor

Although SJ Taylor grew up in Arizona’s desert, her heart yearns for Scandinavian forests and winters. Now, she creates stories steeped in Nordic folklore and magic, where young protagonists tackle big adventures and bigger questions. When she’s not writing, she can often be found knitting yet another sweater (sweater weather is the best weather). She’s represented by Allison Hellegers of Stimola Literary Studio.

Rosiee Thor

Rosiee Thor began her career as a storyteller by demanding to tell her mother bedtime stories instead of the other way around. She spent her childhood reading by flashlight in the closet until she came out as queer. She lives in Oregon with a dog, two cats, and an abundance of plants. She is the author of Young Adult novels Tarnished Are The Stars and Fire Becomes Her and the picture book The Meaning of Pride.

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Emily Victoria

Emily Victoria is a Canadian prairie girl who writes young adult science fiction and fantasy. When not word-smithing, she likes walking her over-excitable dog, drinking far too much tea, and crocheting things she no longer has the space to store. She works at a library where she takes home far too many books.

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Kat Yuen

Kat Yuen (he/her) is a Chinese-American writing student currently located at Kat “Void” Yuen ( 阮掭艺 ) is a Chinese-American creative writer and asexualities theorist with a penchant for character-driven fantasy and D/death. He received his BA in Writing & Literature with a minor in LGBTQA+ Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she spent his years on the editorial team of Spectrum Literary Journal. Void has published essays, poetry, and fiction, and is currently working on a YA modern fantasy novel. She can be found on Twitter @voidyuen.