Guests of Honor

Silvia Moreno-Garcia has won the Locus, British Fantasy and World Fantasy awards. Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best American Mystery and Suspense, and her essays and reviews have been featured in The New York Times, LA Times and Washington Post, among other publications.

Marc Abrahams founded the Ig Nobel Prize and co-founded of the Annals of Improbable Research. He writes about things that are surprising to make people laugh and then think.

The BGSO is an all-volunteer community orchestra, who performs orchestral arrangements of video game music for the enjoyment of the greater Baltimore community.

Sebastien de Castell is the multi-award nominated author of the acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series, The Greatcoats. His new series is the YA fantasy Spellslinger. Sebastien’s books are published in fourteen languages and counting.

Joanna Fang is a multiple award-winning foley artist, currently working as a Senior Foley Artist at Sony PlayStation.

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Stephanie Law has worked for gaming companies to create art for rpgs and ccgs, including Magic the Gathering, Forgotten Realms, Blue Rose, Warhammer, Legend of Five Rings, and also designs art for magazine illustrations, book interior and cover illustrations. She is the author and illustrator of the Dreamscapes watercolor tutorial series of books, and The Shadowscapes Tarot, and the artist for The Treekeepers Oracle. She’s currently working on a new deck, the Verdance Tarot, as well as regularly showing her new work at Modern Eden Gallery (San Francisco, CA) and Haven Gallery (Northport, NY).

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa won the 2024 Compton Crook Award for her novel The Splinter in the Sky