As promised, today we have the second of our author spotlight series. Yesterday we introduced Derek Des Anges and gaast, and today we're introducing Rebecca A. Demarast and Christine Lucas!
Rebecca A. Demarest (she/her) is an award-winning author, playwright, book designer, and writing instructor living in Seattle, WA with her husband and three muppets. Her short work has appeared alongside authors like Cat Rambo and been dramatized for the stage and NPR. When not being held hostage by words, you can find her at her day job (supporting a legal aid firm) tending to her indoor jungle, crafting, sewing, playtesting tabletop role playing games, figuring out new and unique ways her disability makes her a dollar store mutant, and failing to teach her muppets new tricks. For more information on her work, please visit rebeccademarest.com.
Christine Lucas is a Greek author, a retired (disabled) Air Force officer, and mostly self-taught in English. Her stories are her way to explore the universe as a queer and neurodivergent person who’s spent too much time in a closet already. Her work appears in several print and online magazines, including Future SF Digest, Pseudopod and Strange Horizons. She was a finalist for the 2017 WSFA award and the 2021 Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction. Her collection of short stories, titled “Fates and Furies” was published in late 2019 by Candlemark & Gleam.
As a bonus, today we're also announcing our final Bound in Flesh alum, Joe Koch!
Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive, Invaginies, and The Couvade, which received a 2019 Shirley Jackson Award nomination. His short works appear in Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Vastarien, The Mad Butterfly’s Ball, and many others. Find Joe (he/they) at horrorsong.blog.
That's all for today, but look forward to more announcements going forward!
