Mission-We believe representation in speculative fiction (science fiction, horror, fantasy) is not only important, but a necessity. We publish engaging stories that amplify diverse experiences with vivid storytelling, robust protagonists, and fearless voices.
NICOLE GIVENS KURTZ (SHE/HER) – PUBLISHER AND OWNER
Educator. Author. Mom. Nicole loves reading, writing, and anime. She enjoys reading works that promote women of color and futuristic settings. She also loves a good mystery. She started Mocha Memoirs to provide more diversity in speculative fiction. She’s also a scribbler of tales. Learn more about her at Other World Pulp. She lives in Rock Hill with her family.
RIE SHERIDAN ROSE (SHE/HER) – EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Rie Sheridan Rose multitasks. A lot. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies, including Nightmare Stalkers and Dream Walkers Vols. 1 and 2, and Killing It Softly Vols. 1 and 2. She has authored twelve novels, six poetry chapbooks, and lyrics for dozens of songs. These were mostly written in conjunction with Marc Gunn, and can be found on “Don’t Go Drinking with Hobbits” and “Pirates vs. Dragons” for the most part–with a few scattered exceptions.
Her favorite work to date is The Conn-Mann Chronicles Steampunk series with five books released so far: The Marvelous Mechanical Man, The Nearly Notorious Nun, The Incredibly Irritating Irishman, The Fiercely Formidable Fugitive, and The Elderly Earl’s Estate.
Rie lives in Texas with her wonderful husband and several spoiled cat-children. Facebook | Rie’s Website
A.C. THOMPSON (SHE/HER) – EDITOR
A.C. Thompson is the speculative alter-ego of novelist Alexandra Christian. As A.C., Lexx brings us darker worlds full of shapeshifters, cyborgs and interplanetary adventures. She also enjoys bleeding her fellow writers with her Red Pen of Justice as an editor.
MAYA PREISLER (SHE/HER) – MARKETING COORDINATOR
Maya Preisler has been creating art and writing stories since she could hold a pencil and scribble. She has a BFA in cross disciplinary studies from UNC Charlotte and has been working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator for over fifteen years. When she’s not creating, she can be found reading, playing video games, and doing more research. Her work can be found online at www.mayarenee.com and www.mayapreisler.com.
NOVELLETTE WHYTE (SHE/HER) – PROOFREADER
Novellette is a voracious reader from Ontario Canada. The most important thing about her is that she love words and she loves to read; anytime, everywhere and all the time. Proofreading for MMP is a pleasure beyond measure and I look forward to making your reading pleasure as rich and enjoyable as mine.
SUMIKO SAULSON (Zhe/Hir) – Proofreader
Sumiko Saulson is an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror. Zhe is the editor of the anthologies and collections Black Magic Women, Scry of Lust, Black Celebration, and Wickedly Abled. Zhe is the winner of the 2016 StokerCon Scholarship from Hell, 2017 BCC Voice Reframing the Other contest, and 2018 Afrosurrealist Writer Award. She has an AA in English from Berkeley City College, and writes a column called Writing While Black for a national Black Newspaper, the San Francisco BayView.
Adrienne Mattson-Perdue (She/HEr) – Proofreader
Adrienne graduated from Guilford College in 2013, where she served as a writer and copy editor for the Guilfordian, a writing tutor for the Learning Commons, and ran both Yachting Club and WTH?! Con. She also runs a blog on carpentry and historic preservation.
noella Handley (they/them) – Proofreader
Noella is a speculative fiction writer, tabletop RPG designer, and freelance editor. They have a BA in History and Linguistics from The College of William & Mary and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. They attended the 2013 and 2015 Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writing Workshop for Young Writers and the 2012 UVA Young Writers Workshop.
tennill mitchell (she/her) – Proofreader
When she was a child, she wrote a poem to her mother. Her mother showed her gratitude with an embrace. She watched as her mother put the sheet of notebook paper in a sewing basket that was topped with synthetic autumn leaves and a creepy, fake bird.
When she returned home for a visit 20 years later, she opened the basket that still sat in the same spot on the rickety bookshelf in her mother’s bedroom. And she saw it – her scrawled rhyme, folded in eighths, resting on the spools of thread below. So in times when she feels that she has contributed nothing of significance to this world, she is comforted by thoughts of a tacky wicker basket with faux taxidermy perched on top.
Tennill holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Queens University of Charlotte.
wes smith (he/him) – Multipurpose human
Wes writes.
Wes proofreads.
Wes sells books.
Wes picks things up and puts things down.
Wes makes the website go.
Wes does things we haven’t thought of yet.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Wes, do not feed him after Midnight(unless he’s hungry, then feed the Wes).