Jade Cannon is a graduate of the 2025 Odyssey Online class “Getting the Big Picture: The Key to Revising Your Novel.” Writing has been Jade’s creative outlet since she was old enough to string sentences into stories. She wrote her first “chapter book” in third grade—two binders totaling over 100 Read more
Chloe Smith’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Haven Speculative Fiction, Bourbon Penn, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye, among other places. Her debut novella, Virgin Land, came out from Luna Press Publishing in 2023. She is a graduate of Your Personal Odyssey 2024. When she’s not writing, she works Read more
Leah Henderson is a Your Personal Odyssey graduate and the author of many critically acclaimed books for young readers, including The Magic in Changing Your Stars, The Courage of the Little Hummingbird, and Together We March. She holds an MFA in Writing and is on faculty in Spalding University’s graduate writing program. Because she has Read more
A. W. Prihandita (she/her) is a Nebula Award-winning and Ignyte Award-nominated author of speculative fiction. She splits her time between the U.S. West Coast, where she’s currently finishing her Ph.D., and Indonesia, where she grew up and where her home remains. She attended the Your Personal Odyssey workshop in 2023 Read more
Odyssey Podcast #175 Odyssey Podcast #175 is an excerpt from a question and answer session with Arley Sorg for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 in which he answers questions about literary agents. Arley is an associate agent at kt literary. He is a two-time World Fantasy Award Finalist and a three-time Read more
Chana Kohl works in Jerusalem in clinical trials and research, traveling and writing speculative fiction in her spare time. As winner of the 2023 Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, her professional writing debut appeared in the May/June 2024 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. She’s a grateful recipient of Read more
Odyssey Podcast #174 Odyssey Podcast #174 is an excerpt from a lecture by Arley Sorg for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 on literary agents. Arley is an associate agent at kt literary. He is a two-time World Fantasy Award Finalist and a three-time Locus Award Finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief Read more
Shen Tao is a graduate of Your Personal Odyssey. Her debut fantasy, The Poet Empress, is coming out January 2026 with Tor Bramble (US) and Gollancz (UK). Born in China and raised in Toronto, she has since moved to the Pacific Northwest, where the rain doesn’t bother her one bit. You can Read more
Odyssey Podcast #173 Odyssey Podcast #173 is an excerpt from a question and answer session with Paul Park for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 in which he answers questions on point of view. Paul is the author of A Princess of Roumania and numerous other novels. He published his first novel in Read more
Michael J. DeLuca is a 2005 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. His debut novel The Jaguar Mask came out in August 2024 from Stelliform Press, and his novella Night Roll was a finalist for the Crawford Award in 2020. He publishes Reckoning, a journal of creative writing on environmental Read more