Join the Macmillan Library Marketing team as we chat with debut authors Kimberly Garza, Julia Armfield, and Sunyi Dean!

KIMBERLY GARZA (THE LAST KARANKAWAS) is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas, where she earned a PhD in 2019. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Creative Nonfiction, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. A native Texan—born in Galveston, raised in Uvalde—she is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

JULIA ARMFIELD (OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA) is a fiction writer and occasional playwright with a master's in Victorian art and literature from Royal Holloway University. Her work has been published in The White Review, Lighthouse, Analog Magazine, Neon Magazine, and The Stockholm Review. She was commended in the Moth Short Story Prize 2017 and won the White Review Short Story Prize.

SUNYI DEAN (THE BOOK EATERS) is an autistic SFF writer, and mother of two. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales.

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