John Lawson

Founder of AllAccessCon.

John Edward Lawson is the author of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction who lives in Maryland. In addition to being a finalist for the Bram Stoker and the Wonderland Awards, other award nominations include the Dwarf Stars, the Elgin, the Pushcart Prize, and the Rhysling. He is the cofounder of Raw Dog Screaming Press, an instructor, a photographer, and releases music as Rage Inducer.

Eden Royce

Author

Eden Royce is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and her short stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, and PseudoPod. She has written articles for Writer’s Digest, The Horn Book Magazine, and We Need Diverse Books. Her debut novel Root Magic is a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, an Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist, an Ignyte Award winner, and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for outstanding children’s literature. Who Lost, I Found, her latest short story collection for adult readers, will be published later this year.