A PhD student travels to a rural Southern town to research a folk hymn for his dissertation. His research leads him to the discovery of a malicious cult that performs horrifying rituals.

Short stories by George Makana Clark George Makana Clark is a writer born in Rhodesia and living in the United States. He teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. [1] He …

After 300,000 teens and young adults commit mass suicide, a student pursuing their PhD investigates what caused the Year of Suicide, forcing them to relive their trauma and navigate …

_Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Salon …

Short stories by Stephen Graham Jones Jones is the author of 23 or 25 or so books, +300 stories, some comic books, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken …

Born in the foothills of North Carolina, with a PhD from the University of Missouri and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she now lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where …

She graduated from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in 2016, and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside, where …

A graduate student, on a trip in the Sonoran Desert, contemplates quitting her PhD program and moving on with life.

In 2016 she began #CripLit, an online community for writers with disabilities for which, with Alice Wong, she co-hosts a regular Twitter chat. Nicola, now a dual US/UK citizen, holds a PhD by …

Nnedi is also cowriter the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s WILD SEED with Viola Davis and Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu. Nnedi holds a PhD (literature) and two MAs (journalism and …