Tag: Author (Page 5 of 7)

Meg Nicholas

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Meg Nicholas is a folklorist and storyteller of mixed Munsee-Delaware and Welsh heritage. She holds an MA in Public Sector Folklore and a BA in history from George Mason University. She currently serves as a Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center, in the Library of Congress, where she contributes wisdom on the stewardship and presentation of Indigenous culture within the Center’s archival collections and public programs. She is the producer of the Center’s Community Collections subseries of the Folklife Today podcast. She is also a regular writer on the Folklife Today blog, covering topics as varied as cryptids, foodways, puppetry, and the intersection of science, history and folklife.

Bishop O’Connell

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Bishop O’Connell is author of the American Faerie Tale series and the award-winning Two-Gun Witch series, as well as a consultant, writer, blogger, lover of kilts and beer, as well as a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Born in Naples Italy while his father was in the Navy, Bishop grew up in San Diego, where he fell in love with the ocean and fish tacos. After wandering the country for work and school (absolutely not evading mind controlling bunnies), he settled in Richmond VA, where he writes, collects swords, revels in his immortality as a “visionary” of the urban fantasy genre, and is regularly chastised for making up
things for his bio. He can also be found online at A Quiet Pint (aquietpint.com), where he muses philosophical on life, the universe, and everything, as well as various aspects of writing and the road to getting published.

Katie Oslow

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Katie Oslow is a provocative author, activist, and “gender fluid enigma” who creates at the intersection of dark speculative fiction and radical social commentary. Known for her philosophy of “gender chaos,” Oslow crafts stories that dismantle traditional binaries, exploring the visceral and philosophical nature of transformation.

Her work spans across genres to address the complexities of the human experience:

Sci-Fi Dystopia: In her Rebalance series, Oslow envisions a future where gender and biology are tools of both control and liberation. These narratives explore systemic power and the reclamation of self in worlds designed to categorize and constrain.

Transformation Fiction: Her collection Lessons in Lace serves as a hallmark of her work in gender-swap and feminization erotica. In these stories, transformation is more than a plot point; it is a catalyst for deep introspection, exploring how the shift in physical form impacts identity, desire, and societal standing.

The Nexum Universe: Her darker explorations are captured in the volume Sentenced to be His Sex Pet. This dystopian dark erotic thriller examines the architecture of ownership and the loss of agency, mirroring real-world power dynamics through an extreme, transgressive lens.

Beyond her fiction, Oslow is a staunch advocate for transgender rights and social justice. She views her storytelling as a form of activism, utilizing “gender chaos” to challenge cis-normative structures and champion bodily autonomy. Whether writing about magical gender-swaps or dystopian enslavement, Oslow remains committed to visibility, authentic representation, and the pursuit of true liberation for all identities.

Sharon Pajka, PhD

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Sharon Pajka, PhD, is a professor of English at Gallaudet University. She is the author of Women Writers Buried in Virginia (2021) and The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe (2023), a 2024 Saturday “Visiter” Award Winner for “Adaptations of E.A. Poe’s Life or Works,” Haunted Virginia Cemeteries (2025), and forthcoming books on Virginia’s haunted colleges and Virginia witchlore. On the weekends, find her in the cemetery giving history tours or volunteering.

Martin V. Parece II

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Martin is an award-winning author of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, though his work often tends to bleed into multiple genres. He delights in bringing his readers stunning literary prose mixed with glorious cinematic-style writing with subtextual commentary.

While other 80’s kids watched G.I. Joe and Transformers, he was scared to death from Alien and The Terminator (probably not the best content for an eight year old). While his friends growing up were reading Tolkien, Martin explored the lost landscapes of Robert E. Howard’s Hyboria with Conan.

These works and movies shaped the kind of writer he became. Books should be cinematic and epic and adventurous and dangerous. The theatre of the mind is the greatest of all, and heroes should be normal people who find their power through extraordinary circumstances. Even Martin’s first faltering attempts at playing Dungeon Master contained big ideas with epic storylines, even if they fell short of the mark he aimed for.

He set aside creation as adulthood and life happened, as they always do, but returned to it around 2009. He published his first novel in 2011.

“In the end, I’m just a guy who likes to tell stories and headbang in the car. I hope you’ll come along for the ride.”

Charles Pellegrino

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Charles Pellegrino is the New York Times best-selling author of Her Name Titanic, Ghosts of the Titanic, To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima, and Ghosts of Hiroshima, along with eighteen other acclaimed books (including an SF trilogy under a pen name). At Brookhaven National Laboratory he was co-designer with Jim Powell of the Valkyrie relativistic rocket (hybridized with Bob Forward’s Star Wisp and animated for the Avatar series). With Jesse Stoff he co-authored the Europa Theory, worked out the chemistry of Saturn’s moon Titan, and advanced preliminary design (as in Darwin’s Universe, 1983) of the dragonfly Titan drone. He served as technical advisor to James Cameron on Titanic and serves presently on the Avatar series. As a graduate student in New Zealand, 1981, he invented what is now known as the Jurassic Park recipe, as subsequently adapted by Michael Crichton. Current projects include a new Jurassic Park direction (without the park) and the James Cameron film about double-hibakusha—people who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Raised by parents who believed in “Never give up” and aided by a few treasured teachers, he climbed up from dyslexia and autism. Never give up. And never let childhood’s sense of wonder drain away.

Kent M. Peterson

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Kent M. Peterson lives in Virginia, where he worked for many years as a software tester. He now focuses on gardening and writing.

J.F. Posthumus

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

J.F. Posthumus writes tales where mystery tangles with magic, shadows whisper secrets, and danger always lurks just out of sight. A lifelong lover of the strange and fantastical, Posthumus blends crime, fantasy, and the supernatural into page-turning adventures. When not plotting new twists, she can usually be found wrangling her four younger “monsters” (her eldest, a police officer, passed in June 2023), crafting, creating digital art, or drinking too much tea while dreaming up her next story.

Jennifer R. Povey

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Born in Nottingham, England, Jennifer R. Povey (she/her) now lives in Northern Virginia, where she writes everything from heroic fantasy to stories for Analog. She has written a number of novels across multiple sub-genres. She is a full member of SFWA. Her interests include horseback riding, Doctor Who, and attempting to out-weird her various friends and professional colleagues. Find her on Facebook at facebook.com/jrpovey/, Mastodon at @NinjaFingers@universeodon.com, or Bluesky at @NinjaFingers.

Maya Preisler

March 22, 2026 / ravenchair

Maya Preisler has been creating art and telling stories since they were old enough to hold a pen, writing and illustrating their first science fiction novel at age eight. Their art has been featured on book covers, convention badges, and in numerous art shows. Their professional credits include cover design, book layout and editing, videography, video editing and special effects, podcasting, acting, illustration, IT, and political campaign management. In 2020, they published their first novel: The Laws of Entanglement. They are also the author of three published short stories, including “Daughter of the Birds,” which was included in CORVID-19: A RavenCon Anthology. Maya is the Art Director for Mocha Memoirs Press. Learn more at mayarenee.com.