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K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Otherwise Award. In 2021, her chapbook Bone House was published by Bull City Press. Her story collection Gods of Want (One World/Random House) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her latest books are Organ Meats (One World, 2023) and a novella titled Cecilia (Coffee House Press, 2024).
Isabel Burke
Isabel Burke is a comic artist and illustrator currently living in Savannah, Georgia, whose work reflects her eternal fondness for anything flavored with history, magic, or mystery. Some of her past clients include Penguin Random House, Critical Role, Hunters Entertainment, Rainbow Book Box, and more. If you can’t find her drawing at her desk, it’s likely she’s trying out a new dinner recipe, taking a walk outside, reading a book, procrastinating doing the laundry, or herding her cat, Bubbles, off the counter.
