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Multiverse 2021 Celebrity List


Marc L. Abbott

Marc L Abbott is a Brooklyn based author, actor and storyteller. His short stories are featured in the Bram Stoker Nominated horror anthology New Y...

Mason Adams

Daniel Amrhein

Daniel Amrhein is an independent scholar and comics historian with a BFA in Art and Art History from Armstrong State University. His primary areas ...

Amber Anthony

Amber Anthony is the pen name for Nancy Reynolds and Rusty Hough Bader. Each of them were performers in theater and dance in earlier years and met ...

Lindsay Archer

Judy Black

Judy Black is a writer who makes her home in Atlanta, Ga. She loves games, books, cats, and most things with caffeine. Her current series, The Finn...

J.D. Blackrose

J.D. Blackrose is writing a new urban fantasy trilogy for BellBridge Books. She’s published The Soul Wars, The Devil’s Been Busy, and the Zombie Co...

Sara Bond

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

Maurice Broaddus

Maurice Broaddus is a fantasy, science fiction, and horror author best known for his short fiction and his Knights of Breton Court novel trilogy, a...

Kenneth Broome Jr.

Kenneth Broome, Jr. is currently a college instructor at Albay State University located in Albany, Georgia. He loves to discuss topics of Black Spe...

Rachel A. Brune

Rachel A. Brune is a former military journalist who writes urban fantasy, horror, and other speculative fiction. She is the founder and editor of C...

Ariel Burgess

Ariel, a D.C. area native and dyslexic, was an Official Wheel of Time artist for eight years and has been published internationally. Her first publ...

Tyra Burton

Tyra Burton side-hustles as a social media strategist and co-authored Socially Engaged: The Author’s Guide to Social Media. She is a multiple-award...

Paige L. Christie

Paige L. Christie is author of The Legacies of Arnan fantasy series: (#1) Draigon Weather, and has short stories in several anthologies. As a belie...

Gerald L. Coleman

Gerald L. Coleman is a philosopher, theologian, poet, and Science Fiction & Fantasy Author. He did his undergraduate work in philosophy, englis...

Sara Crawford

Sara Crawford is a playwright, poet, musician, and author of young adult fantasy novels including The Muse Chronicles trilogy, Into the Shadows, an...

Galen Dara

Galen Dara likes monsters, mystics, dead things and extremely ripe apricots. She won the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Artist, the 2013 Hugo Aw...

M'Shai Dash

M’Shai S. Dash is a writer, blogger, and digital content creator from Washington, D.C. Her personal blog, The Traveler’s Dash, is an astronomy-th...

Milton Davis

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

Charisma Dozier

Patrick Dugan

Patrick Dugan is the author of the Darkest Storm Series. Storm Forged won the 2019 Imadjinn Award for Best Indie Science Fiction novel. From Distra...

K.D. Edwards

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

Gigi Eng

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...

Penelope Flynn

Penelope Flynn creates mixed genre adult-targeted speculative fiction and illustrations featuring elements of horror, suspense, science fiction and...

Kelley Frank

Marlena Frank

Marlena Frank has always been fascinated with monsters, and now gets to write about them. She has been writing horror and fantasy fiction since 201...

G. Russell Gaynor

A best-selling BIPOC author of over 20 books, G Russell is always creating the next great adventure for his loyal readers. He is an experienced pan...

Venessa Giunta

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...

Marc Gunn

Marc Gunn plays Irish, Scottish, and folk music. But he adds a twist. He fuses his love of science fiction, fantasy, and comedy with his Scots-Iris...

Clint Hall

Clint Hall has been writing stories since middle school, where he spent most of his time in English class creating comic books. Fortunately, his te...

Lynne Hansen

Lynne Hansen is a horror artist who specializes in book covers. Her art has appeared on the cover of the legendary Weird Tales Magazine, and her cl...

John G. Hartness

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...

M. Haynes

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...

Justin D. Herd

Justin D. Herd is the author of the Fantasy Noir, Of Gods and Madness: The Faithful. He’s also the host of the Dubious Consumers podcast, as well a...

Sean Hillman

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...

Alex Hofelich

Alex Hofelich is Co-Editor of Pseudopod, a weekly horror podcast magazine. It is part of the pro-paying Escape Artists network, which has been deli...

Chris A. Jackson

As a sailor, SFF nerd, and gamer, writing nautical and game tie-in stories came naturally for Chris. He’s written for the Pathfinder, Iron Kingdom...

Derek Austin Johnson

Derek Austin Johnson has lived most of his life in the Lone Star State. His work has appeared in The Horror Zine, Rayguns Over Texas!, Horror U.S.A...

Dan Jolley

Dan Jolley began writing professionally at age 19. Starting in comic books, where he co-created the Jason Rusch incarnation of DC’s Firestorm, Dan ...

R.J. Joseph

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...

Darin Kennedy

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

Gini Koch

Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh, and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files, and the Martian Al...

Nicole Givens Kurtz

Nicole Givens Kurtz is an author, editor, and educator. She's the recipient of the Horror Writers Association's Diversity Grant (2020) and the Atom...

Michelle Renee Lane

Michelle Renee Lane holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She writes dark speculative fiction about identity politics...

John Edward Lawson

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

Willie Lawson

Emily Lavin Leverett

Emily Lavin Leverett is a writer, editor, and professor. She writes the Eisteddfod Chronicles, a contemporary fairy fantasy:Changeling's Fall, Wint...

Rachel Lewis

Rachel Lewis is a graduate student at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga in the Masters of English Rhetoric and Professional Writing program. ...

Madolyn Locke

Kyoko M

Kyoko M is a USA Today bestselling author and a fangirl. She is the author of The Black Parade urban fantasy series and the Of Cinder and Bone scie...

Amanda Makepeace

Amanda Makepeace is a Chesley Award winning illustrator, working in both digital and traditional mediums. Through her art, she explores mythology, ...

Gideon Marcus

Hugo Finalist Gideon Marcus, Author of the Kitra saga Founder of Journey Press, an independent publisher focused on unusual and diverse speculat...

Alex Matsuo

Alex Matsuo is a paranormal researcher, singer, and author. She runs the blog and YouTube channel, “The Spooky Stuff” and is the founder/director o...

Melissa McArthur

Melissa McArthur is the associate publisher at Falstaff Books, a freelance editor, and an author. She has worked with authors and presses worldwide...

Rory Montgomery

Rory Montgomery is an alum of UNC Wilmington with a bachelor's degree in film studies and is the assistant director of Multiverse's own LEARN track...

The FANDom Nerdlesque

James P. Nettles

James Nettles has consulted on and managed business and technological transformation projects across the globe for businesses from startups to Fort...

Dee Norman

Dee Norman is a witch who grew up in her family’s Italian American magical tradition. She received her first Tarot deck at the age of 11 and has b...

James Palmer

James is a writer of science fiction and pulp adventure. He is the author of the space opera novels Star Swarm and Ix Incursion, as well as four no...

Brent Peters

Brent Peters holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Western Kentucky University, with minors in Mathematics and Asian Studies. He also studied...

Ellie Raine

Award-winning fantasy author Ellie Raine is a voracious BookWyrm for epic adventures, detailed world-building, and thrilling battles. Fueled by cof...

Tonia Ransom

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

Dr. Elizabeth Rawitsch

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

Nat Rodgers

Nat's iconic art series, Cuteness & Vexation, blends relatable humor with expressive animal portraits in a celebration of the weird, wonderful ...

Dahlia Rose

Dahlia Rose is the USA Today best-selling multi genre author from Urban fantasy to Romance with a hint of Caribbean spice. She was born and raised ...

Joel Ruiz

Joel Ruiz is a video editor and podcast producer with over a decade of production experience and projection promotion. From 2015 to 2018 he wrote, ...

Tony Sarrecchia

Tony Sarrecchia is a storyteller whose tales include the award-winning Harry Strange Radio Drama, Lady Sherlock Holmes Adventures, and Scarlett Hoo...

M.M. Schill

M.M. Schill is a writer, illustrator and traditional Japanese artist, and reviewer. She currently serves as an associate editor for PseudoPod, a we...

Tamsin L. Silver

Tamsin Silver is a Fantasy author based out of Albuquerque, NM. Her Historical Fantasy works include three books in the Untold Legends series with ...

Anita Siraki

Anita Siraki is a librarian and independent scholar who graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Information in Library & Info...

Sarah J. Sover

Sarah J. Sover is the author of the noir fantasy Fractured Fae Series, with Fairy GodMurder releasing from Falstaff Books in 2022. Her debut novel ...

Aziza Sphinx

Pounds of pecans and plates of peaches, a southern drawl to boot; Aziza Sphinx sees the world through a canopy of weeping willows while stopping to...

Adam Stemple

Adam Stemple is an award-winning author, poet, and musician. Like most authors, his life experience is broad and odd. He spent twenty years on the ...

Jeff Strand

Jeff Strand is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of over fifty books, including PRESSURE, DWELLER, and MY PRETTIES. He's mostly a ho...

Shannon Strucci

Shannon Strucci is a filmmaker, film critic, and podcast host known for her webseries FAKE FRIENDS, her role as a player on the teenage superhero b...

Booker Thibeaux

Bean Tiger

Bean Tiger (known in the human world as Chelsea Eckert) is a queer fursuiter, crafter, and educator who enjoys spreading the word about furries and...

Lily Tolson

Lily Tolson is a transgender woman who has studied film at UNCW and is an aspiring fantasy writer. She cares deeply about transgender representatio...

Crystal Turnblom

D. L. Wainright

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...

Merethe Walther

Merethe Walther is a professional editor, author, and short story writer whose work spans many genres and has won awards with Readers’ Favorite and...

Laura Weyr

When it comes to fusing elaborate high fantasy with steamy romance, no one does it better than three-time Hugo Finalist Laura Weyr! Her first full-...

L. Marie Wood

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...


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