Workshop Staff 2025 (Subject to update & change)
Rachel Halpern writes children’s books by day and sci-fi/fantasy by night. Her short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, and Liminal Stories, and she’s a graduate of the Alpha Workshop and Stonecoast MFA. She likes strange magic, smart monsters, and robots searching for self-determination. Also milkshakes. Milkshakes are pretty great.
AJ Lucy is the proud owner of a PhD in fun fish facts and a BA in drawing cool pictures. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife and hopes to someday teach scientists that writing is an important skill too. Her fiction can be found in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons.
Andrew Keahey – is a Black, bisexual pop culture analyst and horror writer whose work has appeared in The Black Youth Project and Afropunk. He currently resides in Austin, Texas where he’s burning alive, and he’s currently doing copywriting for a marketing firm and working on his first dramatic horror podcast to be released later this year. He has no idea what he’s doing, but he’s giving it his all.
Katie McRury was born in Atlanta, Georgia, grew up and went to college in Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2018 and 2019 graduate of the Alpha Workshop. She reads everything from Austen to Asimov and is also interested in cryptography, watercolors, linguistics, cooking, history, fiber arts, and dinosaurs. Accordingly, she has a Bachelor of Architecture.
Jackson Eflin of Muncie, Indiana, works in marketing and graphic design at the local food bank, then comes home to tend their victory garden and try new bread recipes. They routinely get called “A Forest Goblin” by people who just met them.
Kaitlin Rose Jencks is a writer, actor, and musician. She holds a degree in Vocal Performance from Berklee College of Music where she specialized in musical theater performance and writing. She is a two-time graduate of Alpha and was an assistant editor on Triangulation’s Dark Skies and Extinction anthologies. When she isn’t singing, acting, or writing short fiction, she writes musicals. When she isn’t doing that she works for far too many Boston historical organizations and hoards history facts like a tiny trivia dragon.
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