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Credit: Karen Osborne, 2018.
Credit: Karen Osborne, 2018.
AUTHOR BIOS
25 WORDS
Hugo and Nebula finalist K.M. Szpara is a queer and trans author of speculative fiction. You can find himme online at kmszpara.com or Twitter and Instagram at @kmszpara.
50 WORDS
Hugo and Nebula finalist K.M. Szpara is a queer author who lives in Baltimore, MD. His novels include FIRST, BECOME ASHES (2021), and DOCILE (2020) from Tordotcom Publishing; his short fiction appears in Tor.com, Uncanny, Lightspeed, and more. You can find himme on the Internet at kmszpara.com and on Twitter and Instagram at @kmszpara.
100 WORDS
K.M. Szpara is a queer and trans author who lives in Baltimore, MD, with his small dog and large cat. He is the author of speculative novels such as FIRST, BECOME ASHES (2021) and DOCILE (2020), and a third forthcoming that follows up on his Hugo and Nebula nominated novelette, "Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time." They're about cults and trauma, consent and debt, and a horny trans vampire, respectively. His short fiction appears in Tor.com, Uncanny, Lightspeed, and more. You can find himme on the Internet at kmszpara.com and on Twitter and Instagram at @kmszpara.
250 WORDS
K.M. Szpara is a queer and trans author who lives in Baltimore, MD, with his small dog and large cat. Kellan always has a good manicure, likes whiskey cocktails, and thinks pants are overrated. He is the author of speculative novels such as FIRST, BECOME ASHES (2021) and DOCILE (2020), and a third forthcoming that follows up on his novelette, "Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time." They're about cults and trauma, consent and debt, and a horny trans vampire, respectively.
More of Kellan's fiction can be found in venues such as Tor.com, Uncanny, Lightspeed, and more. It has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards and longlisted multiple times for the Otherwise Award. So far, it all contains sex, which he insists is both about feelings, characters and social dynamics, but also, definitely, butts.
Kellan has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, which he totally uses at his day job as a paralegal. He is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop and the editor of Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculate Fiction (Lethe Press), which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. You can find himme socializing into the night at literary conventions, occasionally fawning on Twitter or sharing stories about his pets on Instagram at @KMSzpara, as well as in print as K.M. Szpara.