When darkness takes root, how do characters confront what lurks in the shadows and within themselves? In this session, authors Sarah Gailey, Nghi Vo, and Catriona Ward will explore the terrifying forces their protagonists must face and the impossible choices survival demands.

Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award and British Fantasy Award winner and bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. Gailey's fiction has been published in seven different languages and in dozens of international venues....

Nghi Vo is the author of "Siren Queen," "The Chosen," "The Beautiful, Don't Sleep with the Dead," and "The City in Glass." Her acclaimed novellas of the "Singing Hills Cycle," begins with "The Empress of Salt and Fortune....

Catriona Ward grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at the University of Oxford and later earned her master’s degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia....


