If you need an escape from current realities or want to imagine a different world, local science fiction authors have you covered.
Aaron P. Dworkin
Dworkin is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Music, host of the Arts Engines show on YouTube and a writer of nonfiction, poetry and a sci-fi novel, “Ethos – Rise of Malcolm,” about a divorced accountant from Flint who finds himself in the future. He’s also a frequent speaker at universities and conferences, a member of the Recording Academy (which awards GRAMMYs) and serves on the boards of multiple arts organizations.
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Kay Gray
Gray is originally from Los Angeles but has become a Michigan convert. Her short stories have been featured in “Queen of Clocks and Other Steampunk Tales” and “Fairy Tales Punk’d.” She also writes and produces the Haunted Mitten podcast.
Bethany Grey
Grey is an author and dietitian living in Ann Arbor whose passion for storytelling began with her grandmother. “All That We Encounter” is her debut novel about an 88-year-old feisty protagonist named Olivia who encounters a mystical jewelry box from her past. Find out more at bethanygrey.com.
Steven Harper Piziks
Piziks is the creator of “The Silent Empire” series, the “Clockwork Empire” steampunk series, and the “Books of Blood and Iron” series for Roc Books. All four Silent Empire novels were finalists for the Spectrum Award, and his story “Eight Mile and the City” in the anthology “When Worlds Collide” won the 2022 Washington Science Fiction Association award.
Carey F. Whitepigeon
Whitepigeon, a member of a Potawatomi tribe, lives in Ann Arbor and is the author of the “Daughter of Dawn and Darkness” series about Vivian Debaussigeh, a 17-year-old orphan growing up among her father’s people, who receives a letter inviting her to her mother’s planet, New Dawn.
