These authors are in their second year of eligibility for the Astounding, meaning that their qualifying work was published in 2022. Their eligibility clocks run out after the Glasgow Worldcon ballot.

Check the #astounding2024 tag for a more complete list of eligible authors and more of these spotlight posts, focusing on authors who qualify with their short fiction.

Parker Ragland has a law degree and experience as a technical writer. His short fiction includes “Sensation and Sensibility” (Clarkesworld), “The Carrion Droid, Zoe, and a Small Flame” (Clarkesworld), and “Cherry-Blossom Droid” (The Dread Machine).

YM Resnick has published flash fiction and short stories, with more to come. Check out “Bashert” (Small Wonders), “Across the Great Divide” (Factor Four), “Magic is Like a Box of Chocolates” (Wyld Flash), and “Shalom Aleichem” (Diabolical Plots).

A.D. Sui is a Ukrainian-born author, formerly an academic and a competitive fencer for Canada. Her recent short stories include “Hunt” (Apparition Lit), “The Succubus and the Store Clerk” (Baffling), “A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Apocalypse Go Down” (Haven Speculative), and “Svitla” (Embroidered Worlds). Her debut novella, The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock), drops in 2024.

Nadine Aurora Tabing is a designer and author who lives in the Pacific Northwest with an obscenely adorable Shiba Inu. Her recent stories include “The Conditions for Blooming” (Utopia Science Fiction), “An Inherited Taste” (No Trouble at All), and “The Bright in the Gyre” (Reckoning).

Kanishk Tantia is an Indian immigrant to the U.S. whose recent stories include “The Moonlight Muse” (Solarpunk Magazine), “Gathering Stitches” (Hidden Realms Short Stories), “I Promise I’ll Visit, Ma” (Monstrous Futures), and “Red Berry, White Berry” (Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories).

Guan Un lives in Sydney, Australia. His short fiction includes “Re: Your Stone” (Diabolical Plots), “Phoenix Tile” (khōréō), and “Wok Hei St” (Strange Horizons).

Aigner Loren Wilson is a baker, hiker, editor, and writer. Her recent stories include the 2023 Ignyte nominee “To Carve Home in Your Bones” (F&SF), “Building Blocks” (Interzone), “You Who Does Not Exist” (Baffling), and “The Black and White” (Fantasy).

Hannah Yang enjoys painting, guitar playing, and rock climbing. Her short fiction includes “A Girl of Nails and Teeth” (Nightmare), “Inheritance” (Analog), “A Monster in the Shape of a Boy” (Apex), and “How to Make a Man Love You” (Fantasy).

Kelsea Yu is a Taiwanese Chinese American living in the Pacific Northwest. Her short fiction includes “A Scarcity of Sharks” (Reckoning), “Harvest of the Deep” (Fantasy), “The Orchard of Tomorrow” (Clarkesworld), and “Wanted: Bone-White Skull-Patterned Lace Trim” (Pseudopod). The novella Bound Feet earned a Shirley Jackson Award nomination, and the novel It’s Only a Game debuts this year.

David Lee Zweifler has traveled the world and spent long stints in Jakarta, Hong Kong, and New York City. His recent short fiction includes “The Best Buggy Whip You Ever Saw” (Obsolescence), “Catch and Keep” (Creepy Podcast), “Reconnecting” (Martian Magazine), and “Standard Deviation” (Seven Day Weekend).

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