Entanglements

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best book of the year) and Blackfish City (a Nebula Award finalist and a John W. Campbell Award winner). Sam is a recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Workshop. His short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. He lives in New York City. 

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and have written for Popular Science, Wired and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Annalee co-founded the science fiction website io9 and served as editor-in-chief from 2008-2015, and subsequently edited Gizmodo. As of 2016, Annalee is tech culture editor at the technology site Ars Technica.

Ken Liu is an award-winning American author of speculative fiction. His collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. Liu’s other works include The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, The Veiled Throne, a second collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, and the forthcoming Julia Z series. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work, including the short story “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode in Netflix’s animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC’s Pantheon, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories. “The Hidden Girl,” “The Message,” and “The Oracle” have also been optioned for development. Liu previously worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, the history of technology, and the value of storytelling. Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

Lisa Yaszek is Regents' Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech and an award-winning author and editor whose work explores science fiction as a global storytelling tradition connecting past, present, and future. Her books include Sisters of Tomorrow, Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, and the Future Is Female! series. She received the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.