World of Warcraft: Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth

KAMI GARCIA is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning young adult novelist, she has published 20 novels, in 51 countries and 38 languages, and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Her best-known works include Beautiful Creatures, an instant New York Times, USA Today, Indiebound, Publisher’s Weekly, LA Times, and international bestseller, and an ALA William C. Morris Debut YA Author Award finalist, an Amazon Editor’s #1 Teen Book of the Year & #5 on the overall Editor’s Top Ten, and a NYPL “Books for the Teen Age” selection. Beautiful Creatures was adapted as a feature film by Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment, starring Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, and Viola Davis. Kami is also the co-creator and writer of the graphic novels MIXED-UP, an Indiebound bestseller, Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee, and TLA Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List selection; and Teen Titans: Raven, the first book in her New York Times bestselling Teen Titans graphic novel series for DC. The series won the inaugural ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Roundtable Outstanding Graphic Novel Award and has sold over half a million copies. Kami has an MA in education, and she was a teacher and reading specialist for seventeen years, before writing her first novel on a dare from seven of her students. Learn more about Kami and her books at www.kamigarcia.com and follow her on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky @kamigarcia.

Award-winning and eight-time New York Times bestselling author Christie Golden has written dozens of novels and short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her acclaimed media tie-in work includes more than a dozen Star Trek novels as well as books set in the Star Wars, World of Warcraft, Warcraft, and StarCraft universes. Her Star Trek novels include The Murdered Sun, Marooned, Seven of Nine, and the Dark Matters trilogy. She welcomes visitors to her website: ChristieGolden.com.

Allison Irons is an editor at Blizzard Entertainment by day and a writer by night. With several smash-hits under their editorial belt, they are translating their skill in refining prose to creating it. Allison earned a Bachelor's degree with honors in English from California State University, Fullerton. They live in Southern California with their partner Kris and a little gray cat, where they spend most of their free time painting wargaming miniatures and playing games where you can be nice to the NPCs.

L.L. (Leatrice) McKinney is the author of the Blade So Black trilogy, Escaping Mr. Rochester, Splintered Magic, Spotify Original Audio Mourning Glory, Heritage Blade, and several graphic novels for Marvel and DC. She was named in The Root's Top 100 Most Influential African Americans and BET's Top 100 Entertainers and Innovators and has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and many other publications. She is an advocate for equity and inclusion in the publishing industry, and she lives in Kansas City with her cats--Sir Chester Fluffmire and Lord Humphry, as they are known casually.

Tamsyn Muir is a horror, fantasy and science fiction writer. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Locked Tomb series. Her short fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, F&SF, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and Clarkesworld. She has won the Locus and Crawford awards, and been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Dragon Award, and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. A Kiwi, she has spent most of her life in Howick, New Zealand, with time living in Waiuku and central Wellington. She currently lives and works in Oxford, in the United Kingdom.

Lee Knox Ostertag is the author of Dungeons and Dragons: Dungeon Club: Roll Call and numerous other graphic novels. Lee Knox Ostertag is an Ignatz Award– and Prism Award–winning graphic novelist, a 30 Under 30 Forbes scholar, and a writer for children’s TV animation. His middle grade graphic novel debut, The Witch Boy, came out in 2017 and is being adapted into a feature film by Netflix. It’s followed by the sequel The Hidden Witch in 2018 and New York Times bestseller The Midwinter Witch in 2019. His latest book, The Girl from the Sea, debuted as a #1 YA bestseller on June 1, 2021.

Madeleine Roux is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Asylum series, which has sold over a million copies worldwide. She is also the author of the House of Furies series and several titles for adults, including Salvaged and Reclaimed. She has made contributions to Star Wars, World of Warcraft, and Dungeons & Dragons. Madeleine lives in Seattle, Washington, with her partner and beloved pups.

Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of forty works of speculative fiction and poetry, including Space Opera, The Refrigerator Monologues, Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Prix Imaginales, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Romantic Times' Critics Choice and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.