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Interview: Graduate Michael J. DeLuca

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

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Interview: Graduate A. Katherine Black

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A. Katherine Black lives in Minnesota with her family, their cats, and her many teapots and coffee machines. She loves making snow angels and dreaming up stories about creatures with bunches of legs, tentacles, and wings. She’s a member of SFWA and Codex and a 2018 graduate of the Odyssey Read more

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Interview: Graduate Lynn Buchanan

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Lynn Buchanan is a fantasy writer based in the foothills of some impressive, chilly mountains in Utah. She’s a 2019 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and holds an MFA in fiction from Brigham Young University, where she taught creative writing. When she isn’t writing about monster-fighting dolls, moody painters, Read more

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Interview: Graduate Kate Alice Marshall

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:52:05 +0000

Kate Alice Marshall is a 2005 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. She is the author of young adult and middle grade novels, including I Am Still Alive, Rules for Vanishing, and Thirteens. Kate lives outside of Seattle with her husband, two dogs named Vonnegut and Octavia, and two kids. Read more

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Interview: Graduate Donna Glee Williams

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

2011 Odyssey graduate Donna Glee Williams was born in Mexico, the daughter of a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas large-animal veterinarian. She graduated from Tulane University, then earned an MFA and PhD from Louisiana State University, but it was really her years of wayfaring across twenty countries and four continents that Read more

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Graduate Essay: “Seeing Myself” by Aleksandra Hill

Odyssey Editor — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Aleksandra Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer of stories, including fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. She won the Grand Prize in the 2019 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards for her short story, “A Life Measured in Moons.” An alumna of Odyssey Writing Workshop, Aleksandra is pursuing an MFA in fiction and non-fiction at Read more

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Interview: Graduate Jenny Rae Rappaport

Odyssey Editor — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:27:43 +0000

Jenny Rae Rappaport has been published in Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among other magazines. She is a 2009 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and holds a BA in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University. In the past, she has worked as a literary agent, a marine sciences field Read more

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Interview: Graduate P. A. Cornell

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000

P. A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian writer who penned her first speculative fiction story as a third-grade assignment (a science fiction piece about shape-shifting aliens). While her early publications were in non-fiction, she has been steadily selling her short fiction since 2016. An active member of SFWA and a 2002 Read more

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Interview: Graduate Vikram Ramakrishnan

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 09 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Vikram Ramakrishnan is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania and enthusiastic member of the Odyssey Writing Workshop’s class of 2020, where he received the Walter & Kattie Metcalf Scholarship. He is the winner of the 17th Annual Gival Short Story Award. His stories have been published or are forthcoming Read more

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Interview: Graduate Mars Hawthorne

Odyssey Editor — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Mars Hawthorne is a writer of dark fiction based in Portland, Oregon, as well as a 2021 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, for which she was the recipient of the Miskatonic Scholarship. Her passion for storytelling began in kindergarten when she informed a teacher that, during nap-time, she’d witnessed Read more

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