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Three local speculative fiction writers– Richard Bowes, Robert Levy, and Sam J. Miller— read stories of the weird, the queer, and the otherworldly.

Richard Bowes is nominated for a 2015 Nebula Award. His most recent novel, DUST DEVIL ON A QUIET STREET was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda Awards short lists. His publications include six novels, four story collections, seventy short stories. He has won two World Fantasy, the Lambda, Million Writers and IHG awards. Recent and forthcoming appearances include: Datlow’s The Doll Collection, Tor.com, XIII, Farrago’s Wainscot, Uncanny, F&SF, Interfictions, “Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2015”, “In the Shadow of the Tower.”

Robert Levy is an author of unsettling stories and plays whose work has been seen Off-Broadway. A Harvard graduate subsequently trained as a forensic psychologist, his first novel, the contemporary dark fairy tale THE GLITTERING WORLD, was published worldwide in February by Gallery/Simon & Schuster. Robert can be found in his native realm of Brooklyn, as well as online at TheRobertLevy.com.

Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Apex, Asimov’s, Electric Velocipede, Strange Horizons, The Minnesota Review, and The Rumpus, among others. He is a nominee for the Nebula Award, a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. He lives in New York City, and at www.samjmiller.com