An Interview with Quentin S. Crisp

Quentin S. Crisp is an English writer undaunted by the prospect of following his own muse, wherever it might take him. His fiction might best be classified as horror/supernatural, but has its own unique perspective as he lends his interest in Asian cultures to his work. In 2001, while he was teaching English in Taiwan, [...]

An Interview with Paul Meloy

Fantasist Paul Meloy, winner of the British Fantasy Society award for best short story in 2005 (for “Black Static,” which is included in his collection Islington Crocodiles, reviewed here, crafts stories that fuse realism with nightmares, tragedy with glass-etching humor. Here, he shares his thoughts on inspiration, criticism, dreams, and much more.

An Interview with Paul Di Filippo

Paul Di Filippo is a protean writer, able to blend disparate fictional elements in his own unique, wildly inventive way. As Cory Doctorow refers to him in the introduction to Paul’s most recent collection, Harsh Oases, “He’s like baking soda in the genre’s fridge, soaking up all its flavors, mixing them together.” Paul’s fiction has [...]

An Interview with Pat Cadigan

Since making her first professional short story sale in 1980, Pat Cadigan has had her work appear in Omni, SCI FICTION, Asimov’s, and Jim Baen’s Universe, as well as numerous anthologies. Her work has been translated into French, German, Polish, Japanese, and Czech. Born in Schenectady, New York, she grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and [...]

An Interview with Patrick Swenson

Patrick Swenson is the publisher and editor of Talebones Magazine, as well as Fairwood Press. Talebones has been publishing quality short fiction since 1995 and just released issue #37. In 2000, Patrick started Fairwood Press and has so far published 30 titles. He lives in Auburn, Washington, is father to his six-year-old son, Orion, and [...]

An Interview with T. L. Morganfield

Since selling her first short story in 1999, T. L. Morganfield has recently come to editorial attention. She has sold her fiction to Realms of Fantasy, Paradox, GUD, Tales of Moreauvia, and Lilith Unbound, to name a few. While she also writes horror, her bailiwick is Aztec culture, which she explores in her fiction, using [...]

An Interview with Joe Vaz

An eerie glow has crept across South Africa’s bookshelves with the publication of a quarterly short fiction magazine specialising in horror and science fiction—the first of its kind in South Africa.
I try never to judge a book by its cover. I really do. But the editor of Something Wicked walked straight past me when [...]

An Interview with Kaaron Warren

Since selling her first story in 1993, Kaaron Warren has had her work appear in a variety of publications, including, Paper Cities, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007, Fantasy Magazine, Aurealis, and AGOG! She has stories upcoming in Canterbury 2100, Ellen Datlow’s Poe Anthology, and Datlow and Nick Mamatas’s Haunted Legends anthology. Her story, [...]

An Interview with Pete Butler

Pete Butler is the senior editor of the Triangulation series, which is published by the small press, PARSEC Ink. Following in the editorial footsteps of Diane Turnshek (2003) and Barb Carlson (2004, 2005), he took over with End of Time, the 2007 Edition of PARSEC Ink’s Annual Confluence of Speculative Fiction. His second issue is [...]

An Interview with M. K. Hobson

M. K. Hobson’s short fiction has been well-received for some time now. Her stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, SCI FICTION, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, and Strange Horizons, to name just a few. Her two novels, The Native Star and The Desired Poison are forthcoming from Bantam Spectra. She lives [...]

An Interview with Gregory Frost

Gregory Frost is a writer’s writer. His work employs a literary style, while still being accessible to a cross-section of speculative fiction readers. Since the early 1980s his work has appeared in The Twilight Zone Magazine, Asimov’s, Whispers, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and many anthologies, notably the retold fairy-tale [...]

An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal recently won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She made her first fiction sale in 2004, and since then, her work has appeared in a variety of markets, including Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Cosmos, Apex Digest, Talebones, and Twenty Epics. She is an active member of SFWA and was recently elected [...]

An Interview with Bridget and Marti McKenna

In this brief interview, editors Bridget and Marti McKenna answer a few questions about their e-zine, Æon.
Tell us a bit about yourself. Background, education, etc.

Marti: Having come through the U.S. public education system, I can safely say I have very little formal education. I was lucky to get a writing job at smallish computer game [...]

An Interview with Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo is no stranger to serious readers of modern short speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, to name just a few. She was a student in the MA writing program at John Hopkins, studying under John Barth and Stephen [...]

An Interview with Vera Nazarian: Taming Wild Herds of Thought Buffalo

Author Vera Nazarian talks to Elizabeth Allen about her recent novella, The Duke in His Castle, in metaphors explosive, sexy, and downright weird.
What originally sparked the idea of The Duke in His Castle? What did the rough draft look like when you were in college?
Oh Lord, what a fun question. The first draft [...]