Марта Уэллс: From a Certain Point of View

DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER is the New York Times bestselling author of the middle grade historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, The Book of Lost Saints, the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series, Star Wars: Last Shot, and the award-winning young adult series Shadowshaper Cypher, which won the International Latino Book Award and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers Literature, the Andre Norton Award, the Locus, the Mythopoeic Award, and named one of Esquires 80 Books Every Person Should Read. He is a lead story architect on the Star Wars cross platform initiative The High Republic. He co-wrote the upcoming graphic novel Death’s Day and writes the monthly IDW comic book series The High Republic Adventures. You can find more info and read about his decade-long career as an NYC paramedic at http://danieljoseolder.net/.

MARK OSHIRO is the award-winning author of Anger Is a Gift, which was a finalist in the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ YA and a winner of the Schneider Family Book Award in 2019. Their upcoming books are a YA fantasy, Each of Us a Desert, and their middle-grade debut, The Insiders. When they are not writing, they run the online Mark Does Stuff universe and are trying to pet every dog in the world.

AMY RATCLIFFE is the author of Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, The Jedi Mind, and the upcoming A Kid’s Guide to Fandom and The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. She’s the managing editor for Nerdist, a Star Wars Celebration stage host, and an entertainment reporter featured at StarWars.com, Star Wars Insider, IGN, and more. Born and raised in a small Ohio town, Amy lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two cats.

BETH REVIS is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Rebel Rising , Across the Universe, and Give the Dark My Love, among others. Beth currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and her young Padawan, who trains regularly in the fine art of cardboard-tube lightsaber dueling.

LILLIAM RIVERA is an award-winning writer and author of children’s books Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit, Dealing in Dreams, The Education of Margot Sanchez, and the forthcoming young-adult novel Never Look Back (September 2020), published by Bloomsbury. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post , The New York Times , and Elle , to name a few. A Bronx, New York native, Lilliam currently lives in Los Angeles.

CAVAN SCOTT is a UK number one bestseller who has written for such popular worlds as Star Wars, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Assassin’s Creed, Judge Dredd, Pacific Rim, and Sherlock Holmes. He is the author of Star Wars:Dooku : Jedi Lost, The Patchwork Devil, and Shadow Service, and is one of the story architects for Lucasfilm’s epic multimedia initiative, Star Wars: The High Republic . He has written comics for Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, Vertigo, 2000 AD, and The Beano. A former magazine editor, Cavan Scott lives in Bristol with his wife and daughters. His lifelong passions include classic scary movies, folklore, audio drama, the music of David Bowie, and walking. He owns far too many action figures.

EMILY SKRUTSKIE was born in Massachusetts, raised in Virginia, and forged in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado. She attended Cornell University and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Skrutskie is the author of Bonds of Brass, Hullmetal Girls, The Abyss Surrounds Us, and The Edge of the Abyss.

KAREN STRONG is the author of the critically acclaimed middle-grade novel Just South of Home, which was selected for several best-of-year lists, including Kirkus Reviews Best Books, CCBC Choices, and Bank Street Best Books . Her short fiction appears in the sci-fi and fantasy anthology A Phoenix First Must Burn. Born and raised in the rural South, she is a graduate of the University of Georgia and an advocate of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). An avid lover of strong coffee, yellow flowers, and night skies, Karen lives in Atlanta.

ANNE TOOLE is a Writers Guild Award winner who has written for videogames, TV and digital series, animation, comics, and more. Her work most recently appeared on Netflix’s anime series Cannon Busters, Titan’s Horizon Zero Dawn comic book, and in the BBC/Eline console title Beyond Blue.

Her credits include the award-winning PS4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn; The Witcher; and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a short-form digital series that won an Emmy. She also created Alles Liebe, Annette, a digital series for German broadcaster MDR. Anne has spoken extensively on storytelling across platforms at such conferences as South by Southwest, Comic-con International, GDC Europe, and GDC, as well as in presentations at MIT, Harvard, and Cannes. She has served as the vice chair of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). A citizen of Ireland as well as the United States, Anne holds a degree in archaeology from Harvard.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE is the New York Times bestselling author of dozens of works of science fiction and fantasy including Space Opera, The Refrigerator Monologues, and the Fairyland series. She has won or been nominated for nearly every award in her field. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, her son, and several other mischievous beasts.

AUSTIN WALKER is the host of the actual play podcast Friends at the Table, where he tells stories about anticapitalist robots and terribly sad gods. He is also an award-winning games journalist, critic, and podcaster whose words and voice have appeared at Paste Magazine, New Statesman, Giant Bomb, and VICE Media’s Waypoint Radio . He currently lives in (and loves) Queens.

MARTHA WELLS has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and a Star Wars fan since she saw A New Hope in the theater in 1977. Her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, The Death of the Necromancer, the Ile-Rien trilogy, The Murderbot Diaries series, media tie-ins for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and nonfiction. She was also the lead writer for the story team of Magic: The Gathering ’s Dominaria expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards, and two Locus Awards, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List.

DJANGO WEXLER graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts. He is the author of epic fantasies Ashes of the Sun, The Shadow Campaigns, and YA fantasy The Wells of Sorcery.

KIERSTEN WHITE is the New York Times bestselling, Stoker Award–winning author of many books, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Slayer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, and The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein. She owns a perfectly reasonable number of lightsabers, and sometimes even lets her kids play with them.

GARY WHITTA is a screenwriter and author best known as the co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He also wrote several episodes of Star Wars Rebels, adapted The Last Jedi for Marvel Comics, and was a contributor to the first volume of Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.