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Multiverse 2023 Celebrity List


Carmanda Arts Things

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

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Gigi

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Gigi is based in New York City. For a few years, she was an in-house tarot reader at a downtown hangout for single-named celebrities. Gigi’s short ...

MultiMind

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

MultiMind resides in her hometown, Baltimore City, Maryland where she tries to find time for her countless hobbies, from 3D printing to bookbinding...

The Kitchen Witch

Marc L. Abbott

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Marc L Abbott is a Brooklyn native whose work includes The Hooky Party & Etienne and the Stardust Express. He’s the co-author of the two-time A...

Mason Adams

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Mason makes artwork to tell stories, to capture in line and form and color the beauty, the oddity, the lovely weirdness of existing. The conversati...

Mike Aurelius

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Mike Aurelius imbibed optical manufacturing from his father at an early age, but that has nothing to do with his latest book, Chronicles of the Cov...

Catherine Barson Eastis

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Catherine Barson Eastis is the content creator behind The Gluttonous Geek, a blog exploring the bridge between food and fiction. She describes her ...

M. W. Bennett

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

M. W. Bennett entered this earth through the portal of Brooklyn, NY and developed into a Jack of many trades. He is the author and artist of the ch...

Julia Benson-Slaughter

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Julia Benson-Slaughter has so many (figurative) hats that it’s hard for her to remember which one she’s wearing at any given time. Maker, writer, ...

Judy Black

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Judy Black is a writer who makes her home in Atlanta, Ga. She loves games, books, cats, and most things with caffeine. She's an Ennie-nominated wri...

Sara T. Bond

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sara Bond is a science fiction and fantasy author who is an unapologetic extrovert and consumer of tall-tales—the wilder, the better. After dabblin...

Amy Brewer-Davenport

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Amy Brewer-Davenport is a fantasy artist who paints the landscape and denizens of an enchanted forest. You can find them tempting people with paper...

Bill Bridges

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Bill Bridges is a writer and game designer, most known for developing White Wolf’s World of Darkness and the Fading Suns science-fiction universe. ...

Kenneth Broome Jr.

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Kenneth Broome, Jr. is an English instructor at Albany State University with nearly 10 years of teaching experience. With a degree in Creative Writ...

Rachel Brune

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

As a military journalist, Rachel A. Brune wrote and photographed the Army and its soldiers for five years. When she moved on, she didn’t quit writi...

Ariel Burgess

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

I have been a professional Illustrator Painter for fourteen years. In that time I have been internationally published, worked with MARVEL, Tor Book...

G.D. Burkhead

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Mandy and G.D. Burkhead are speculative fiction authors living in Chattanooga, Tennessee with their dog and cats. They published their debut dark f...

Mandy Burkhead

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Mandy and G.D. Burkhead are speculative fiction authors living in Chattanooga, Tennessee with their dog and cats. They published their debut dark f...

Tyra Burton

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Tyra Burton is a multi-award-winning educator, author, podcaster, digital marketing cheerleader, and self-proclaimed geek. In 2022, she received th...

Darin M. Bush

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Darin M. Bush is an award-winning science-fiction and fantasy short-story author. His fiction has been published in Creative Loafing magazine and ...

Jessica Cage

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Jessica Cage is an International Award Winning, and USA Today Best Selling Author from Chicago, IL. She is an independent publisher who focuses on...

Crystal Calhoun

Crystal Calhoun is currently an instructor of English at West Georgia Technical College. She has three degrees, and she graduated cum laude. She co...

Josh Carter

Josh Carter is a Sophomore at Kennesaw State University. He was named on the Dean’s List and is pursuing a Cybersecurity major with a minor in Film...

Alexandra Christian

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Alexandra Christian is an award-winning author of both contemporary and paranormal romance. A native South Carolinian, her stories have a distinctl...

Paige L. Christie

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Paige L. Christie is author of The Legacies of Arnan fantasy series (#1 Draigon Weather) A believer in the power of words, Paige tells stories that...

Gerald L. Coleman

Appearing Fri,Sat

"Gerald L. Coleman is a Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, and SF&F Author. He did his undergraduate work in Philosophy, English, and Religion Stud...

Joe Compton

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Joe Compton is an Indie Author of The Duality of Truth Crime Thriller Trilogy (Amongst The Killing, We The Moral Majority, and the 2023 Release Bes...

Carol Cowles

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

"Carol has long been a fixture of Geek Culture in Charlotte. She has served for several years as the Programming Director for ConCarolinas and wor...

KEEF CROSS

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

KEEF CROSS is an Atlanta based fine artist, illustrator and graphic novelist. His artistic talents emerged during his high school years at Tri-Citi...

Madilynn Dale

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Madilynn Dale is an independent author, blogger, host with Go Indie Now, podcaster, and freelancer. She writes predominantly urban fantasy, parano...

John Darr

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Darrell is a native of the state of Georgia. As a graduate of Columbus State University with a B.A. in Communications, and with work on an M.F.A. d...

Kevin A. Davis

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Kevin A Davis, contemporary fantasy and science fiction writer, was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and has lived on both coasts. Presently he resides in...

Milton J. Davis

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Milton J. Davis is a Black Speculative fiction writer and owner of MVmedia, LLC, a small publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantas...

Randee Dawn

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Randee Dawn is a Brooklyn-based entertainment journalist who scribbles about the glam world of entertainment by day, then spends her nights craftin...

Cecilia Dominic

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

By day, clinical psychologist Cecilia Dominic helps people cure their insomnia and overcome the mental and emotional blocks that are keeping them f...

Nancy E. Dunne

Appearing Sat,Sun

Nancy E. Dunne is a multi-genre speculative fiction author and nationally certified American Sign Language/English interpreter. She is fascinated w...

Egg Embry

Appearing Sat,Sun

Egg Embry is part of EN World's Columnist (ENWC) program as well as a columnist for Knights of the Dinner Table and d20 Radio. His area of focus is...

William Fietzer

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

William 'Bill' Fietzer is an author, blogger, retired librarian (University of Minnesota) avid golfer, and YouTube addict. He moved with his wife a...

Liam Fisher

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Liam is best known as one of the leaders of Metro Atlanta Geeks. Liam has managed the Facebook presence of Metro Atlanta Geeks for the past 8 yea...

Kelley Frank

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Kelley M. Frank is a horror artist, author, and reviewer. She has appeared in a number of horror anthologies including Georgia Gothic: Stories from...

Marlena Frank

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Marlena Frank is the author of young adult fantasy and horror novels, short stories, novellas, and book series. Many of her books have hit the best...

A.M. Giddings

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Angela Giddings is a writer, scientist, and independent filmmaker from North Carolina. She has a PhD in Microbiology and authored multiple scienti...

Venessa Giunta

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Venessa Giunta is a writer of weird things, an editrix extraordinaire, and a little bit of a nerd. She is a published author, with non-fiction essa...

Nicole Givens Kurtz

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Nicole Givens Kurtz has been named one of Book Riot’s 6 Black SFF Indie Writers You Should be Reading. She's two-time Atomacon Palmetto Scribe Awar...

Seressia Glass

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Seressia Glass is an award-winning author of thirty works of fiction in novel and novella length published traditionally and independently. Works i...

Sara Glassman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sara Glassman is a jewelry artist with a focus on bringing fiber art techniques to wire jewelry. She also has an interest in combining books with j...

Stephen Granade

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Stephen Granade is a physicist, writer, and interactive narrative designer from Huntsville, AL. His short fiction has appeared in outlets including...

Marc Gunn

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Marc Gunn is a Rhythm & Folk songwriter who fuses Irish and Scottish folk songs with pop culture. His musical weapon of choice is the autoharp....

Clint Hall

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Clint Hall is a storyteller, speaker, and podcast host. He has been writing stories since middle school, where he spent most of his time in English...

Keira Harbison

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Chaotic Good Fitness is the creation of Keira Harbison, a lifelong nerd and educator who discovered weightlifting in college as a way to lose weigh...

Ris Harp

Appearing Fri,Sat

Ris is an author, actor, artist, burlesque and drag performer, and youtuber. Influenced by graffiti, fantasy, disability (deaf and hard of hearing ...

Crymsyn Hart

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Crymsyn Hart is a multi-genre author from Horror, Urban Fantasy, and Romance. Her years of experience at Boston’s oldest psychic salon doing readin...

John G. Hartness

Appearing Fri,Sat

John G. Hartness is the founder and publisher of Falstaff Books, creator of the SAGA Genre Fiction Writing Conference, cast member of the Authors &...

Wanda Harward

Appearing Fri,Sat

Wanda Harward is a member of The Charlotte Geeks team (www.charlottegeeks.com/) , assisting founder Joey Starnes and Carol Cowles with the Geek Gal...

M. Haynes

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Ever since he was old enough to read, M. Haynes has been afflicted with the geek bug. From ATLA to Zelda, the world of fantasy has always intrigued...

Robby Hilliard

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

SM Hillman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

SM Hillman (he/him) is a writer of speculative fiction, game designer, and blogger. His short story The Druid of Market Street can be found in the ...

Holly Hogan

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Holly Hogan is a transplanted Chicagoan, engineer, math/science geek, and fan of all things Dr. Who, having worked on the technical ops team at Chi...

Robert Jeffrey II

Appearing Sat,Sun

Robert Jeffrey II is a professional writer (comic books, table top gaming, prose fiction, and video games) with over 18 years of experience. He has...

Robert Jesiolowski

Dr. Robert Jesiolowski is a LCSW who has taught at Indiana Wesleyan University as a full-time Associate Professor since 2015. He has worked in the ...

Derek A. Johnson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Derek Austin Johnson was born in the Northeast but has lived most of his life in the Lone Star State. His work has appeared in Campfire Macabre, Th...

RJ Joseph

Rhonda Jackson Garcia, AKA RJ Joseph, is an award winning, Stoker Award™ and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Texas based academic and creative wri...

Darin Kennedy

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing f...

Ron L. Lahr

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Ron writes in the fantasy (Kathaldi Chronicles trilogy), science fiction (You Get What You Steal) and humor (You're as Stupid as you are Fat: How t...

William Lawson

Meredith Leigh

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Meredith is a lawyer, writer, activist, and social media micro-influencer who focuses on the intersections of law, politics, Spirituality, and Fand...

Emily Lavin Leverett

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Emily Lavin Leverett is an author, editor, professor, and scholar. She is the author of the paranormal romance series The Wolf and the Nun based on...

Madolyn Locke

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

An award-winning artist, Madolyn works primarily in fantasy fine art photography and digital art. She received her first ‘real’ camera from her unc...

Jenn Lyons

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

"JENN LYONS lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, three cats and a nearly infinite number of opinions on anything from Sumerian mythology to ...

Mike Lyons

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Author, author support human, game designer. Have one book in the wild, have worked on several video games, am currently working on a TTRPG.

Kyoko M

Appearing Sat,Sun

Kyoko M is the author of The Black Parade urban fantasy series and the Of Cinder and Bone science-fiction series. The Black Parade has been reviewe...

Misty Massey

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Misty Massey is the author of the Mad Kestrel series of rollicking magic pirate adventures, and a co-editor of The Weird Wild West and Lawless Land...

Bob McGough

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Bob McGough is an author, podcaster, and indie ttrpg designer from Alabama. Best known for his Urban Fantasy series, the Jubal County Saga, he is a...

Violette L. Meier

Appearing Fri,Sat

Violette Meier is a happily married mother, writer, folk artist, poet, and native of Atlanta, Georgia, who earned her B.A. in English at Clark Atla...

Goñi Montes

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Goñi was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and obtained a BA from UPR Mayagüez, and an MFA from SCAD Atlanta. In 2003, he began working as a scientific i...

Marshall J. Moore

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Marshall J. Moore is the author of the Rites of Resurrection trilogy of high fantasy novels from Shadow Alley Press, as well as thirty short storie...

Lori Morrow

James P. Nettles

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

James Nettles is a non-fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy author, workshop teacher of business for creatives, and a founder of the ConTinual Online Conve...

Jessica Nettles

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Jessica Nettles grew up with one foot in the real world and the other in a world mixed with dabs of spiritual belief, science-fiction and fantasy d...

Rey Nichols

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Rey Nichols, a native of the Midwest, is the love child of an Eldritch horror with more apostrophes than letters in its name and the front person o...

Steffi Nicole

Appearing Sun

Steffi Nicole is a paradigm shifter, patriarchy dismantler and transition designer whose mission is to make Mother Earth a stakeholder. She is an ...

Dee Norman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Dee Norman is an author and witch who was raised in her family’s Italian American magical tradition. She is the author of Burn a Black Candle: An I...

Nicole Nunez

Nicole Nunez is a second-year graduate student at Indiana State University pursuing her master’s in English with a concentration in creative writin...

Jeff Parish

Appearing Fri

Jeff Parish is an English instructor at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Sam Houston State University ...

Vikki Perry

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Vikki Perry has sung with someone who was nominated for a Grammy, hula hooped with fire, and driven a tractor. She doesn’t have any tattoos or odd...

Ellie Raine

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Writer's Digest award-winning fantasy author Ellie Raine is a voracious BookWyrm when it comes to epic adventures, detailed world-building, and thr...

Tonia Ransom

Appearing Fri,Sat

Tonia Ransom is the World Fantasy Award-winning creator and executive producer of “NIGHTLIGHT”, an IGNYTE Best Fiction Podcast featuring creepy tal...

Rebecca Roanhorse

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

ebecca Roanhorse is a NYTimes bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer and the recipient of the 2018 Astoun...

S.H. Roddey

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

South Carolina native S.H. Roddey writes all manner of speculative fiction spectrum filled with a unique blend of humor, emotion, and wild ideas fi...

Juliet Rose

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Award-winning author of five published novels, sixth out Feb 2023, Juliet Rose knew she wanted to be a writer by the time she was ten years old. Sh...

Joel Ruiz

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Joel Ruiz is a comedian, podcast producer, and content creator. Best known for his hit shows Critical Bits and Oddity Roadshow, Joel has spent the ...

Mauricio Salmon

October K Santerelli

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

October K Santerelli is a fantasy author and LGBTQ Sensitivity Reader from Denver, Colorado. He has spoken and taught writing workshops at a local...

MM Schill

Jeremy Speed Schwartz

The Museum of Animation is an Atlanta-based organization dedicated to teaching the production methods of animation in all its various forms, honori...

Amelia Sides

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Amelia Sides writes SFF and Romance and is a lover of plants, dogs, and anime. Her books are filled with complex heroes, political intrigue, and fi...

Rosemary Claire Smith

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Rosemary Claire Smith is a two-time AnLab Award-nominated author who writes science fiction, fantasy, horror and RPGs. Rosemary started out as an a...

Sarah J. Sover

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sarah J. Sover is the author of fantasy crossover novels, short stories, and nonfiction articles. The Fractured Fae series from Falstaff Books bega...

Priya Sridhar

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting. Capstone publ...

Joey Starnes

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Joey Starnes (aka the GiddyGeeker) does not claim to be an expert on all geekeries – she's just happy to organize it. She runs the Charlotte Geeks,...

Dr. Alyse N. Steves

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Born to a medium in a small town named after a planet, normalcy was never an option for Alyse. Once a feral homeschooled child living with eight do...

Shannon Strucci

Appearing Fri,Sat

Shannon Strucci is a video essayist and professional video editor, podcast host, actual play performer, and writer best known for her video essay F...

Booker Avery Thibeaux

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Avery Noire designs for pop stars and internet gremlins alike. They once demanded an audience throw glitter glue at a painting with convincing-enou...

Vincent E.M. Thorn

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Vincent E.M. Thorn is a biracial Japanese American author based out of Atlanta. Inspired by a vast array of works and mediums, from fairytales to m...

Tiffany Vega

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Tiffany Vega is an author that has written in a range of genres. Her latest book Destiny and Desire was released in Dec 2022. Tiffany is also the ...

DL Wainright

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

What do you do with a degree in world religions and a lifelong love of horror? According to DL Wainright you write a dark fantasy series. Said seri...

Alex White

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Alex White was born in Mississippi and has lived most of their life in the American South. Alex is the author of the Starmetal Symphony Trilogy and...

L. Marie Wood

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

L. Marie Wood is an award-winning dark fiction author, screenwriter, and poet with novels in the psychological horror, mystery, and dark romance ge...

Rebecca Wynick

A college instructor and high school educator for more than two decades, Rebecca Wynick teaches writing and predominately dead, British authors. Wy...

Jessi Ann York

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Jessi Ann York’s stories have been featured at several professional rate horror markets, including PseudoPod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates Media, Love...


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