Erin Roberts is honored to have been a co-editor for this special issue. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, The Dark, and PodCastle, and her essays and reviews have been published in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy, People of Color Take Over FSI, Cascadia Subduction Zone, and Tor.com. She is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program and the Odyssey Writing Workshop, an Associate Editor for Escape Pod and Pseudopod, and the winner of the Speculative Literature Foundation’s 2017 Diverse Worlds and Diverse Writers Grants. For more, follow her on Twitter at @nirele or visit her at writingwonder.com.