Guests of Honor
P. Djelli Clark
Literary Guest of Honor
Phenderson Djéli Clark is the author of the novels Abeni’s Song, A Master of Djinn, and the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon nominated author of the novellas The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His short stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots and Hidden Youth. You can find him on social media and at his blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.
Sara Felix
Artist Guest of Honor
Sara Felix is a Hugo award winning mixed media artist. She has designed 2 Hugo bases, the 2016 base and co-designed the 2018 Hugo base with Vincent Villafranca as well as three WSFS Young Adult Award/Lodestar awards and thee nominee pins. She is the president of ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists, who bestow the Chesleys each year. She also creates a weekly tiara for Tiara Tuesday and has created over 100 unique tiaras in the project. She teaches online and in person classes when she can and hass been guest of honor at multiple conventions across the states and shows at science fiction art shows when she can.
Aleksandra (Ola) Hill
Toastmaster
Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer of stories, including fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. Her work has been published by Analog, LeVar Burton Reads, Writer’s Digest, and others. An alumna of Odyssey Writing Workshop, Aleksandra earned a Ph.D. in computational biology from Columbia University and an MFA in fiction and nonfiction at the New School. She is also the founder and publisher of khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. She lives in New York City and is perpetually in need of more bookshelves. She is represented by Eric Showers of HMLA.
Special Guest
Brandon Sanderson
