Third Annual Science & Fiction Confab

Heather Clitheroe is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed Magazine, and Fusion Fragment. Heather is an award-winning creative writing teacher with University of Calgary Continuing Education, and also teaches creative writing for teens and adults with the Calgary Public Library. She is also a doctoral student with the University of Calgary's Department of English, working in science fiction for STEM engagement and science literacy. 

Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the ‘Beneath the Rising’ series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.

Brenda Peynado's latest book, Time’s Agent, about a disgraced time agent on one last mission for redemption to save a world destroyed by capitalism and her own actions forty years previous, was one of Amazon Editors’ and Book Riot’s best books of August and a finalist for the Phillip K. Dick Award. Her genre-bending short story collection, The Rock Eaters—featuring Latina girlhood, basement ghosts, alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones—was named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and Electric Literature's best books of 2021. She teaches at the University of South Florida.