About
Here’s a little bit about us, the Clarion West class of 2019.
C.S. Peterson
CS Peterson is a writer living in Denver. She studied theatre at Grinnell, clowning at Ringling Brother’s Clown College, and became a master of Mathematics at SCSU.
Celeste Rita Baker
Celeste Rita Baker is a Virgin Islander who currently resides in Harlem New York City. She has published short stories in The Caribbean Writer, Calabash, Margin’s Magical Realism, Scarab, Moko Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Strange Horizons, and is included in the anthologies People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy, An Alphabet of Embers, Black Science Fiction Society’s Genesis, The Outcast Hours and The Apex Book of World SF 4.
Derrick Boden
Derrick Boden is a writer, a software developer, an adventurer, and a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2019. He currently calls Boston his home, although he’s lived in fourteen cities spanning four continents. He is owned by two cats and one iron-willed daughter. His fiction has appeared in numerous venues including Escape Pod, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online.
EA Crawley
In another time, EA Crawley would have become the secretary to a Very English Lord, solely to drain his accounts, redistribute his fortune, and escape to the States in a pilfered waistcoat to start over as a headlining spiritualist or mysterious gardener. In this, the 21st century, they mostly just write about cool shit like that, although they did spend their PhD years talking to the dead in historical archives and move to Seattle, in part, for the ethereal forests.
Eugenia Triantafyllou
Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. She currently lives in Athens with a boy and a dog. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in Uncanny, Apex, Strange Horizons and other venues.
Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko
Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko is a Slovenian-born writer and translator. He grew up in Slovenia, Ireland, Australia, and the UK, and currently resides just outside Portland, Maine. He understands that his name is a bit confusing, and would like you to know that “Drnovšek Zorko” is the surname. In his spare time he is a keen quizzer—British readers may recognise him from that one time he was on University Challenge.
Gardner Mounce
Gardner attended Clarion West in 2019 and graduated from the MFA program at the University of Florida in 2020. He lives in Gainesville, where he works as a writing coach. When he’s not writing, you can see him stuck in traffic.
Kristina Ten
Kristina Ten is a Russian-American writer of short fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Black Static, AE Science Fiction, Witness, and elsewhere. She likes hiking, weaving, and a good scary story. She loves her dog and yours.
Millie Ho
Millie Ho’s short stories and poems appear in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and elsewhere. She draws the comic sorrowbacon.
Minal Hajratwala
Minal Hajratwala is the author of Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (winner of four nonfiction awards), Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment (poetry), and the Moon Fiji travel guidebook (2019). She edited Out! Stories from the New Queer India (anthology) and co-founded The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, which publishes poetry books from global India. She coaches authors and future authors at Write Like a Unicorn.
Monte Lin
While being rained on adjacent to Portland, Oregon, Monte Lin writes, edits, and plays tabletop roleplaying games. Clarion West got him to write about dying universes, dreaming mountains, and singularities made of anxieties. He can be found tweeting Doctor Who news, Asian-American diaspora discourse, and his board game losses @Monte_Lin.
Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas
Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas is Mexican but is now living in California with her husband. Her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, and anthologies like The Apex Book of World SF 3 and She Walks in Shadows. At Clarion West she was awarded the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship by the Carl Brandon Society.
Phoebe Barton
Phoebe Barton is a queer trans science fiction writer. Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Analog, On Spec, and Kaleidotrope, and she’s writing the interactive fiction game The Luminous Underground for Choice of Games. She serves as an Associate Editor at Escape Pod, and lives with a robot in the sky above Toronto.
Tim Chawaga
Tim Chawaga is a writer of speculative fiction and plays, living in Brooklyn.
His writing has been featured in Interzone and Escape Pod. His plays have been produced in New York by companies such as Pipeline Theatre Company and AGGROCRAG. He studied Drama at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.