Former neuroscientist, Astounding Award–nominated and Judith A. Markowitz Award–winning author Naseem Jamnia (they/them) writes inclusive speculative fiction for kids, teens, and adults. Their adult fantasy novella The Bruising of Qilwa was a finalist for the Crawford, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Their story in the YA horror anthology The White Guy Dies First was called “artful” and “reminiscent of director David Cronenberg’s work” by Kirkus Reviews. Naseem has been a Bitch Media, Lambda Literary, and Otherwise fellow and the inaugural Samuel R. Delany fellow, and their nonfiction has been published in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Cosmopolitan, New Orleans Review, and others. Naseem is the managing editor and book designer for Sword & Kettle Press, a tiny publishing house of inclusive speculative writing. A Persian Chicagoan and child of Iranian immigrants, Naseem lives outside Reno, Nevada, with their geologist husband and four furred creatures. The Glade is their middle grade debut. Find out more and join their newsletter at NaseemWrites.com or on Instagram @JamsterNazzy.