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Multiverse 2019 Celebrity List


Marc L. Abbott

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Marc L Abbott is the author of the YA novel The Hooky Party and the children’s book Etienne and the Stardust Express. His short stories “Welcome to...

Jesse Adams

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Born and raised in a small south Georgia town, Jesse Adams spent his childhood visiting faraway planets and fantasy worlds via the local library. A...

Aba Arthur

Appearing Sat

Lanie Barmore

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Lanie was born and raised in Georgia. Immersed in books and science fiction shows and movies most of her life, she only discovered conventions a fe...

R. S. Beck

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

R.S.Beck has been an educator on both the college and high school levels for the past twenty-four years. She received both her Masters and Bachelor...

A.D. Boynton, II

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

A.D. Boynton, II (he/him/his) is a Southern scholar-blerd based in Lawrence, KS and a doctoral student in English at the University of Kansas. This...

Kenneth Broome Jr.

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Originally from Mississippi, Kenneth Broome, Jr. currently lives in Georgia and works as an English instructor at Albany State University. He rece...

DJ Bubbles

Appearing Sat

DJ and Actress, DJ Bubbles is here to make the Y'All Ball lit.

Troy Carrol Bucher

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Troy Carrol Bucher served thirty years in the U.S. Army, where assignments sent him to three wars and places like Turkey, Albania, Iraq, Afghanista...

Ariel Burgess

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Dana Cameron

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Dana Cameron writes across many genres, but especially crime and speculative fiction. Her work, inspired by her career in archaeology, has won mult...

Craig Campbell

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Craig Campbell is an indie RPG designer and the owner of NerdBurger Games. He is the designer of the award-winning CAPERS RPG, as well as Die Laugh...

The Brothers Chaps

Appearing Sat

Mike and Matt Chapman are the VACWAD's of HomestarRunner.com, an animated web-series that's been around since the early aughts. VACWAD stands for V...

Allie Charlesworth

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Allie Charlesworth is the co-founder of Multiverse. A huge fan of Harry Potter, LOTR, Miyazaki, and all things crafty, Allie can often be found mak...

Preeti Chhibber

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Preeti Chhibber is a YA author, speaker, and freelancer. She's written for SYFY, The Nerds of Color, and The Mary Sue, among others. Her short stor...

Paige L. Christie

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Paige L. Christie is author of The Legacies of Arnan fantasy series: Draigon Weather (2017), Wing Wind (2018), Long Light (2019), Storm Forged (202...

Gerald L. Coleman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Gerald L. Coleman is a Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, and Author residing in Atlanta. He did his undergraduate work in Philosophy, English, and Rel...

Phil Collins

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Lady Dredknot Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

LadyDredknot Cosplay was born from a gamer. The Original LadyDredknot is an avid gamer who started by bringing her favorite characters to life, whi...

Whiskey Weasel Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Whiskey Weasel Cosplay is a foam-smithing and sewing cosplay power couple. Between the two of us, we have over 25 years of costuming experience. We...

Yarn Goddess Cosplay

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Yarn Goddess Cosplay is a gifted crocheter from Atlanta, GA who takes great pride in their work! They first started crocheting since they were abou...

Milton J. Davis

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Milton Davis is a Black Speculative Fiction writer and owner of MVmedia, a small publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sw...

Sargon Donabed

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sargon Donabed holds a Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations PhD from the University of Toronto and completing another MS in Anthrozoology. He is a...

K.D. Edwards

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

K.D. Edwards lives and writes in North Carolina, but has spent time in Massachusetts, Maine, Colorado, New Hampshire, Montana, and Washington State...

Meg Elison

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Meg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. ...

Gigi Eng

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Gigi Eng is a New Yorker who considers Atlanta “Home Geek Home”. A multi-genre writer, her short stories have been published in Weirdbook 36 and an...

Richard Fife

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Born in the Midwest and transplanted to the mid-Atlantic coast, Richard Fife has been dabbling in the geeky community for over a decade, from being...

Leadie Jo Flowers

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Leadie Jo Flowers authors novels, short stories and poetry in the genres of science fiction and horror. She makes extra money for traveling by teac...

Barr Foxx

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Barr Foxx (JaBarr), creator of Cosplay Your Way, is an influencer that promotes individual style through cosplay. A seasoned cosplayer and televisi...

Sarah Beth Gilbert

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sarah Beth Gilbert is currently a graduate student at Villanova University where she studies the intersection of feminist and queer theories with a...

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...

John G. Hartness

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

John G. Hartness is an author, publisher, and podcaster from Charlotte, NC. He is the author of multiple novel series (including the Black Knight C...

Scott Hawkins

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Scott Hawkins is the author of the critically acclaimed horror novel The Library at Mount Char, which a Kirkus starred review described as: “"A who...

Marcus Haynes

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

M. Haynes grew up loving fantasy worlds, but soon realized that they failed to include people like him. He began developing his Elemental book seri...

Robby Hilliard

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sean Hillman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Long time fan of all things gaming related, Sean currently writes for EN World, blogs about role playing games, and designs games as well as writes...

Heather Holloway

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

J2

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Chris A. Jackson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

As a sailor, scientist, and gamer, writing nautical, SF, and RPG tie-in stories came naturally for Chris. His Scimitar Seas novels won three gold m...

Stuart Jaffe

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Stuart Jaffe is the madman behind The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries, the Nathan K thrillers, The Parallel Society series, The Malja Chronicles, T...

Tiara Janté

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Tiara Janté is an author, ghostwriter, and literary publicist from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her passion for speculative fiction has positioned her...

Valjeanne Jeffers

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Valjeanne Jeffers is a speculative fiction writer, a Spelman College graduate, and the author of nine books, including her Immortal series and her ...

Robert Jeffrey

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Robert Jeffrey II is an Atlanta based freelance writer who has worked for such clients as DC Comics, the Centers for Disease Control, and Nitto Tir...

R.J. Joseph

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

R. J. Joseph is a Texas based writer and professor who must exorcise the demons of her imagination so they don't haunt her being. A life-long horro...

Kirsten Imani Kasai

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Kirsten Imani Kasai is a writer and editor who celebrates literature as a change agent. She's written three novels: The House of Erzulie (2018, Sha...

TaLynn Kel

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

TaLynn Kel is a writer, cosplayer, activist, and podcaster in Atlanta, Georgia. She writes about cosplay, interracial relationships, and pop cultur...

Darin Kennedy

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Darin Kennedy is a graduate of Wake Forest University’s undergraduate and medical schools. After completing family medicine residency in Virginia, ...

John Edward Lawson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

John Edward Lawson's novels, short fiction, and poetry have garnered nominations for many awards, including the Stoker and Wonderland Awards. In ad...

YATL Live Show

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Georgia Center for the Book offers its young audience this zany, Jimmy Fallon-esque live young adult book talk show centered around YA authors call...

Catherine Lundoff

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Catherine Lundoff is an award-winning writer, editor and publisher from Minneapolis where she lives with her wife, bookbinder Jana Pullman, and the...

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 t...

Kyoko M

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Kyoko M is a USA Today bestselling author, a fangirl, and an avid book reader. She is the author of The Black Parade urban fantasy series and the O...

Terry Maggert

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Left-handed. Husband to a half-Norwegian. Herder of cats and dogs. Lover of pie. I write books. I've had an unhealthy fascination with dragons sinc...

Amanda Makepeace

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Lee Martindale

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Lee Martindale is an old hand at inhabiting multiple universes. As a writer, her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and can now be...

Rena Mason

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Rena Mason is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of The Evolutionist and East End Girls, as well as a 2014 Stage 32 /The Blood List Presents®: T...

Misty Massey

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Misty Massey is the author of Mad Kestrel, a rollicking adventure of magic on the high seas, and the long-awaited sequel, Kestrel’s Dance. She is a...

Melissa McArthur

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Melissa McArthur is the Associate Publisher at Falstaff Books, a small press located in Charlotte, NC. She is an author and freelance editor who ha...

Margaret S. McGraw

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Margaret S. McGraw is a speculative fiction author and editor. She is co-editor of the Predators in Petticoats anthology (Prospective Press, 2019),...

Seanan McGuire

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Seanan McGuire writes things. All kinds of things. She writes books, novellas, and short stories, and thanks to them, has won multiple major genr...

L.L. McKinney

Appearing Fri,Sat

Leatrice "Elle" McKinney, writing as L.L. McKinney, is a poet and active member of the kidlit community. She’s an advocate for equality and inclusi...

Amy Medford

Appearing Sun

Violette L. Meier

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

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...

Linda Mercury

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Linda Mercury started her career as a librarian. After September 11, 2001, she knew there had to be a better way to bring people together, make goo...

Victor Monnin

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Victor Monnin is pursuing a doctorate degree in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Strasbourg. He attended the École Normale Su...

Rory Montgomery

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Rory Montgomery received their Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in May 2019. Their research...

Christopher Morgan

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Before his move to Tom Doherty Associates, Christopher spent time helping build two different genre-based communities focused on putting the reader...

Clifford Murphy

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Dr. Clifford Murphy is a professor of physical chemistry at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. He earned his B.S in Chemistry from Saint Mi...

Bobby Nash

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

An award-winning author, Bobby Nash writes novels, comic books, short stories, novellas, graphic novels, and the occasional screenplay for a variet...

S. Kay Nash

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

S. Kay Nash is a writer, editor, and bibliophile. Raised by a cabal of university professors, anthropologists, and librarians, she holds two degree...

James Nettles

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

James Nettles has a thirty-year career consulting for dozens of clients from startups to Fortune 100s, media contributor, speaker on privacy, futur...

Havana Nguyen

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Havana’s passion for design and technology has fostered hundreds of clients including authors, politicians, and tech companies like Microsoft, Sage...

Exis Noel

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Crystal Noll

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Errick Nunnally

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Errick Nunnally served one tour in the Marine Corps before deciding art school was a safer pursuit. He en...

Irette Y. Patterson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Irette Y. Patterson is a native of Atlanta, GA. Her short fiction has been published in Strange Horizons, FIYAH, People of Color Take Over Fantasti...

John Picacio

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

JOHN PICACIO is one of the most acclaimed American artists in science fiction and fantasy over the last decade, creating best-selling art for Georg...

Nick Porter

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Nick Porter is an RPG developer from Atlanta, Georgia. His first RPG, the Norse-themed Sagas of Midgard, smashed through its Kickstarter funding go...

Jana Pullman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Cat Rambo

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Nebula, Endeavour, and World Fantasy nominee Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches on a hill in Seattle. Since appearing on the scene in 2005, Rambo...

Elizabeth Rawitsch

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Elizabeth Rawitsch received her PhD in Film, Television, and Media Studies from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. She is currently...

Michael Reber

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Delia Remington

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Delia Remington is the author of The Blood Royal Saga vampire series: In The Blood (2017), Out For Blood (2017), and Trial By Blood (2018). Winner ...

Riley Rethal

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Riley is a tabletop RPG writer who likes to write games that focus on storytelling and collaboration, such as Dusk to Midnight and The Riot Starts....

Josh Roseman

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Josh Roseman (not the trombonist; the other one) has more than two dozen published novels and short-stories, including After the Apocalypse (a stor...

Peter Adam Salomon

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Peter Adam Salomon is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction & Fa...

Jarvis Sheffield

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Mr. Jarvis Sheffield, M. Ed. has been involved in multimedia for 20 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Tennessee Stat...

Paul Sims

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Paul "JollyGoodGiant" Sims is a self taught miniature painter. When he was a teen he painted Monster in my Pocket figures, Transformers and HeroQue...

Chad Eric Smith

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Chad Eric Smith, a native of Washington, DC, is an award-winning actor, screenwriter, film producer, director, and musician. In 2014, he wrote and ...

Leilia Spaniel

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Lindsey Hein (Leilia Spaniel) is an activist and performer who is known for her dedication to helping others. Since 2015, she has performed for 30 ...

E.J. Stevens

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

E.J. Stevens is the award-winning author of the Ivy Granger Psychic Detective urban fantasy series, the Spirit Guide young adult paranormal mystery...

Alyse Steves

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Dr. Alyse N. Steves received her Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Emory University. An expert in genetics, molecular biology, and cell/...

Shannon Strucci

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Shannon Strucci is a video essayist and filmmaker best known for Fake Friends, a video essay series on parasocial relationships, and “SO YOU WANNA ...

Ben Tate

Appearing Sun

Sheree Renée Thomas

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. She is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press), ho...

Tonia Thompson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Tonia Thompson is the creator and executive producer of NIGHTLIGHT, a horror podcast featuring creepy tales written by Black writers. Tonia has bee...

Alexandria Lily Tolson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Alexandria Lily Tolson is currently attending UNC Wilmington to complete her bachelor’s degree in film studies. She is a transgender woman who is s...

Steven Van Patten

Appearing Sat,Sun

Steven Van Patten is the author of Brookwater’s Curse trilogy featuring 1860s Georgia plantation slave who becomes law enforcement within the vampi...

Alex R. White

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Alex White was born and raised in the American south. They take photos, write music and spend hours on YouTube watching other people blacksmith. Th...

Kenesha Williams

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Kenesha Williams is an author, screenwriter, speaker, and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Black Girl Magic Lit Mag. She took to heart the advice, "If yo...

Darie L.K. Wolfson

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Darie (aka Mama Lyric) is a professional LGBTQ+ health educator, assister, and administrator. In addition to being Volunteer Director, she is a Gu...

L. Marie Wood

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

L. Marie Wood is the bestselling author of 4 novels and over 130 short stories. Her short story, "The Ever After" was part of the Bram Stoker Award...

Mariah Williams Wooldridge, MA NCC

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

Mariah Williams Wooldridge is a counselor working toward her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision at Lindsey Wilson College. She received h...

K. Ceres Wright

Appearing Fri,Sat,Sun

K. Ceres Wright received her master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and her published cyberpunk novel, Cog, was her ...


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