Fourth Annual Science & Fiction Confab

Born in San Juan in 1971, Cabiya is a Puerto Rican writer who has lived for the past two decades in the Dominican Republic. He is the author of twelve books and more than a hundred essays and articles, and is one of the most widely read writers in the Hispanic Caribbean.

Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His novels The Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall have between them won the Le Guin Prize for Fiction, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, Crawford, and Otherwise Awards, and been selected as New York Times Notable Books of 2023 and 2024. He is one of the 2025-2026 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He is online at vajra.me.

Ana Menéndez is an associate professor of English at Florida International University in Miami. Before joining FIU she taught creative writing at Maastricht University in The Netherlands. A former journalist, columnist, and freelance photographer, she has also lived in New Delhi, Istanbul, and Cairo, where she was a 2008-09 Fulbright Scholar. She has published five books of fiction, most recently The Apartment.

Ian Tregillis is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the Milkweed Triptych, Something More Than Night, and the Alchemy Wars Trilogy. His short fiction has appeared in venues including Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Tor.com, and been reprinted in half a dozen year’s best anthologies.  A physicist who lives in New Mexico, he swears his day job does not involve reverse-engineering UFOs. iantregillis.com