Recorded August 1st from the New York Review of Science Fiction.

Barbara Krasnoff has had over 40 short stories appear in a variety of print and online publications. Her story “Sabbath Wine,” which was published in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix 5, was a Nebula Award finalist. She also has a mosaic novel, The History of Soul 2065, which was published by Mythic Delirium Books in June 2019. Her most recent published stories include “Time and Art,” which can be found in the May / June issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and “Baby Golem” which will appear in the anthology Jewish Futures, Stories from the World’s Oldest Diaspora, available on August 7th. A full list of publications can be found at her website BrooklynWriter.com. When not writing science fiction or fantasy, she is Reviews Editor for The Verge.

Sheree Renée Thomas is a New York Times bestselling, two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author and editor. A 2023 Octavia E. Butler Award Winner, 2023 Locus Award Winner (Year's Best Anthology for Africa Risen), and a 2023 Hugo Award Finalist (Best Editor - Short Form), she is the author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, a Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Finalist and winner of the Darrell Award for Year's Best Novella, Marvel’s Black Panther: Panther’s Rage novel, an adaptation of Don McGregor's legendary comics, and she collaborated with Janelle Monáe on “Timebox Altar(ed)” in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer. She co-edited Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, a NAACP Image Award Finalist, British Fantasy Award Finalist, and a World Fantasy Award Fantasy and is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She also co-edited Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue with Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins, which was also a Locus Award Finalist and a World Fantasy Award Finalist. Sheree lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid. Visit http://www.shereereneethomas.com or follow her on Twitter: @blackpotmojo and on IG/FB: @shereereneethomas

Both Barbara and Sheree have been curators of the NY Review of SF reading series.