Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His short stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed, along with sixteen “year’s best” story collections. But who’s counting? His debut novel The Art of Starving (HarperTeen), was called “Funny, haunting, beautiful, relentless and powerful… a classic in the making” by Book Riot, and was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2017. His second novel, Blackfish City, will be published by Ecco Press in 2018. He graduated from the Clarion UCSD Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop in 2012. A finalist for multiple Nebula Awards® along with the World Fantasy and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he won the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for his short story “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides.”