A former neuroscientist and fiction MFA graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno, Naseem Jamnia’s (they/them) work has appeared in The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Rumpus, The Writer's Chronicle, and other venues. They were the 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology, a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction, and a 2022 Otherwise Fellow, and they were named the inaugural Samuel R. Delany Fellow from CatStone Books. In addition to co-writing the academic text Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children (Routledge, 2019), their work has been included in the Lambda Literary EMERGE anthology (2020) and We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt (University of Chicago, 2019). Their debut novella, The Bruising of Qilwa, was released by Tachyon Publications in August 2022. Naseem is also the managing editor at Sword & Kettle Press, a tiny independent publishing house of inclusive feminist speculative fiction, and the former managing editor at Sidequest.zone, an independent gaming criticism website. A Persian-Chicagoan and child to Iranian immigrants, Naseem now lives in Reno with their husband, dog, and two cats. Find out at more at www.naseemwrites.com or on Twitter/Instagram @jamsternazzy.