The Traveling SSF Book Festival at Greedy Reads

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Join us in Remington for The Traveling SSF Book Festival, with authors Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Ray Nayler, Sarah Pinsker, and Julia Vee!

As part of The Traveling SSF Book Festival, the authors will discuss how the genres of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy are evolving; how the authors' identities and backgrounds inform their writing; and where they think the genres are headed.

Join us for the Baltimore stop of the traveling festival, where they will focus on "The Power of 'What If?'"

Micaiah Johnson -- Micaiah Johnson is a Brooklyn-based author and scholar. She received her BA in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside, and her MFA in fiction from Rutgers-Camden and her doctorate at Vanderbilt university. Her debut novel THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS won the Compton Crook Award and was an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. NPR named it one of best books of 2020 and one of the best science fiction books of the last decade.

Yume Kitasei -- Yume Kitasei is a Japanese and American speculative fiction author of THE DEEP SKY, THE STARDUST GRAIL, and SALTCROP. She lives in Brooklyn with two cats, Boondoggle and Filibuster.

Ray Nayler -- Ray Nayler is the author of the novel The Mountain in the Sea, which won the Locus Award for “Best First Novel,” and the novella The Tusks of Extinction. Called “one of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction” by Locus, Nayler’s stories have been published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Vice, and Nightmare, as well as in many “Best Of” anthologies. His stories have won the Clarkesworld Readers’ Poll and the Asimov’s Readers’ Award, and his novelette “Sarcophagus” was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award.

Sarah Pinsker -- Sarah Pinsker is the author of over sixty works of short fiction, one novella, two novels, and two collections, which have been translated into almost a dozen languages. Her work has won Nebulas, Hugos, the Philip K Dick, Locus, the Eugie Foster, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and been nominated for World Fantasy Awards. She is the author of two short story collections: the Philip K Dick Award-winning Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories and Lost Places, published by Small Beer Press. Her novels include A Song For A New Day and We Are Satellites (Penguin/Random House/Berkley). Tordotcom novella Haunt Sweet Home appeared in September 2024.

Julia Vee -- Julia Vee was a trial lawyer in Silicon Valley for over two decades. She attended U.C Berkeley and majored in Asian Studies. She often writes with co-author Ken Bebelle. Their novel EBONY GATE, an Asian-inspired urban fantasy was a Golden Poppy Finalist for the Octavia E. Butler award. The series conclusion, PEARL CITY, released in July of 2025.

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