Your Personal Odyssey instructor and Odyssey graduate E. C. Ambrose writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction, including the five-volume Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery, The Singer’s Legacy fantasy series as Elaine Isaak, and the Bone Guard international thrillers as E. Chris Ambrose. The Dark Apostle started with Elisha Barber (DAW, 2013), 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
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
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
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
Sam W. Pisciotta is an intrepid storyteller hurtling through spacetime on the power of morning coffee and late-night tea. He writes stories for people who want to visit other planets, learn magic from birds, or camp in haunted forests. His M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Colorado trained Read more
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
Your Personal Odyssey graduate Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer; Ignyte Award winner; Nebula, Locus, Bram Stoker, and BSFA Award finalist; and an immigrant from Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She is a member of HWA and SFWA. Her work can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy & Read more
Since launching this blog in 2008, the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust has shared numerous posts aimed at helping writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror improve their craft. With so much content over so many years, it’s easy to miss things, so this month we’re highlighting some of the Read more