Welcome to the Read For Pixels “Meet The Authors” section where you can learn more about the 17 award-winning bestselling authors who will be taking part in the 11rh annual Fall Edition of the Read For Pixels campaign. They are listed in alphabetical order below according to the events that they will be participating in:
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The Read For Pixels Fall Edition 2025 Author Reading+Q&A Sessions
Catriona Ward
CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She studied English at the University of Oxford and later earned her master’s degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Ward is a three-time winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel: for The Girl from Rawblood, her debut; Little Eve; and The Last House on Needless Street. Little Eve also won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. Ward is the international bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street, Sundial, and Looking Glass Sound, and her next book is the forthcoming Nowhere Burning.
Catriona will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 6.00pm PT, on September 21st, 2025 (Sunday).
You can follow Catrion on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/catrionawardauthor and on Instagram at @catward66
Cerece Rennie Murphy
National bestselling and award-winning author CERECE RENNIE MURPHY has published twelve speculative fiction novels, short stories, and children’s books, including her latest release, In The Garden of Light and Shadow: The Chronicles of Ada St. James. Ms. Murphy is also the founder of Virtuous Con, an online sci-fi and comic culture convention that celebrates the excellence of BIPOC creators in speculative fiction. Ms. Murphy has received numerous awards including the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)’s Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and related genres community.
Cerece will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 19th, 2025 (Friday).
Learn more about Cerece at www.cerecerenniemurphy.com. You can follow her on Instagram at @cerecermurphy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI is an award-winning author and professor whose books have been made into films and plays. She has published 23 books such as Mistress of Spices, Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantments, The Last Queen, and Independence, which won an American Book Award in 2024. She is the McDavid Professor in the internationally acclaimed Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
Chitra will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 7th, 2025 (Sunday).
Learn more about Chitra at https://www.chitradivakaruni.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @divakarunichitra.
Eden Royce
EDEN ROYCE is a Shirley Jackson Award winner and a Bram Stoker Award nominee for her adult fiction. Her novels for young readers have won multiple awards, including the Ignyte, the Bram Stoker, and the Walter Dean Myers Honor. Find her at:
Eden will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 2.30pm UK Time, on September 26th, 2025 (Friday).
Learn more about Eden at https://www.edenroyce.com. You can follow her on Instagram at @edenroycebooks.
Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her published works include novels, novellas, and short fiction.
Premee will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 5th, 2025 (Friday).
Learn more about Premee at www.premeemohamed.com. You can follow her on Instagram at @premeesaurus.
Rachel Harrison
RACHEL HARRISON is the USA Today Bestselling author of So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection Bad Dolls.
Rachel will be doing a live reading and Q&A for her Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 6th, 2025 (Saturday).
Learn more about Rachel at https://www.rachel-harrison.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @rachelharrisonsghost.
Richard Kadrey
RICHARD KADREY is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of Kadrey’s other books include The Dead Take the A Train (with Cassandra Khaw), The Pale House Devil, and Butcher Bird. His work has been nominated for the BSFA, Locus, and DragonCon awards. Aside from books, Kadrey has written for film and comics, including Heavy Metal, Lucifer, and Hellblazer. Kadrey also makes music with the band, A Demon in Fun City.
Richard will be doing a live reading and Q&A for his Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 12th, 2025 (Friday).
Learn more about Richard at https://www.richardkadrey.me/. You can follow him on Instagram at @rkadrey
Robert V.S. Redick
ROBERT V.S. REDICK is the author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy, Master Assassins, Sidewinders and other epic fantasies. His books have been shortlisted for the Locus Award, SFX Novel Award, and the AWP/Thomas Dunne Award for Best Novel. He’s taught fiction writing at Stonecoast, the University of Nevada, and elsewhere.
Robert will be doing a live reading and Q&A for his Read for Pixels YouTube Session at 8.30pm ET, on September 20th, 2025 (Saturday).
Learn more about Robert at https://www.robertvsredick.com/. You can follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/robertvsredick/
The Read For Pixels Fall Edition Panel Sessions 2025
The Pixel Project will be holding 3 author panel sessions live on YouTube in September 2025 as part of the 11th Fall Edition of the Read For Pixels campaign. Please see below for further details and mark your calendars!
Father Does Not Know Best: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and Violence Against Women in Horror
In our 22nd Read For Pixels livestream session, “ Father Does Not Know Best: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and Violence Against Women in Horror”, acclaimed Horror authors Angela Yuriko Smith, Errick Nunnally, and John Langan will be discussing the history and portrayal of fatherhood in the Horror genre and how father figures in Horror can catalyse conversations about masculinity, misogyny, sexism, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
This panel session will be held live on YouTube at 8.30pm ET, September 5th, 2025 (Friday).
Angela Yuriko Smith
ANGELA YURIKO SMITH is an American poet, Stoker-nominated author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Join our Flash Battle leagues, compete as an Iron Writer and help raise an Exquisite Corpse at SpaceandTime.net.
Learn more about Angela at http://angelaysmith.com. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Angela.Yuriko.Smiths/
Errick Nunnally
ERRICK NUNNALLY was raised in Boston and served in the USMC before earning an art degree. His latest novel is The Queen of Saturn and The Prince in Waiting from Clash Books; and he has multiple short stories in anthologies and magazines.
Learn more about Errick at https://erricknunnally.us. You can follow him on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/erricknunnally.bsky.social
John Langan
JOHN LANGAN is the author of two novels and six collections of stories. For his work, he has received the Bram Stoker and This Is Horror awards. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and continues to serve on its Board of Advisors. He lives in New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife and younger son.
Learn more about John at https://johnpaullangan.wordpress.com/. You can follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/john.langan.31
“Solving The Patriarchy: Female Detectives and Feminism in the Mystery and Crime Genre
In our 23rd Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream session Panel Session, “Solving the Patriarchy: Female Detectives and Feminism in the Mystery & Crime Genre”, Delia Pitts, Laurie R. King and SJ Rozan will be discussing the history and evolution of female detectives in the Mystery and Crime genre and how they have and can catalyse conversations about sexism, misogyny, and violence against women in the genre. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
This panel session will be held live on YouTube at 8.30pm ET, September 13th, 2025 (Saturday).
Delia Pitts
Born and raised in Chicago, DELIA PITTS graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in history. After working as a journalist, she earned a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Chicago. She is a former university administrator and U.S. diplomat. Her newest book, featuring Black PI Vandy Myrick, Death of an Ex, was published by Minotaur Books in 2025. She has also published several acclaimed short stories, including, “The Killer,” which was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021. Delia is an active member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Crime Writers of Color. Delia and her husband live in central New Jersey.
Learn more about Delia at https://www.deliapitts.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @deliapitts50
Laurie R. King
LAURIE R. KING is the bestselling, award-winning author of numerous beloved novels, short stories, anthologies, and works of nonfiction. She lives in California and writes historical mysteries set all over the world, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.
Learn more about Laurie at https://laurierking.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @laurierking
SJ Rozan
SJ ROZAN is the author of eighteen novels and over seventy short stories, and editor of two anthologies. She has won multiple awards, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, Macavity; Japanese Maltese Falcon; and the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award. In 2023, she won the Anthony Award for the latest Crime anthology she edited, CRIME HITS HOME.
Learn more about SJ at http://sjrozan.net/. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSJRozan
Poetic Feminist Justice: Using Poetry to Combat the Horrors of Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women
In our 24th Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream session Panel Session, “Poetic Feminist Justice: Using Poetry to Combat the Horrors of Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women”, Ai Jiang, Cindy O’ Quinn and Stephanie M. Wytovich will be discussing the history of women’s poetry in feminism and how poetry can be used in feminist activism today to combat sexism, misogyny, and violence against women. They will also be answering questions live from the audience about this topic and their books.
This panel session will be held live on YouTube at 8.30pm ET, September 26th, 2025 (Saturday).
Ai Jiang
AI JIANG is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award winner, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, Aurora, and BFSA Award finalist from Changle, Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of A Palace Near the Wind, Linghun, and I AM AI.
Learn more about Ai at https://aijiangauthor.wordpress.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @ai.jian.g.
Cindy O’Quinn
Cindy O’Quinn is an Appalachian writer from the mountains of West Virginia. She is the author of Dark Cloud on Naked Creek, Return to Graveyard Dust, and coauthor of Foundlings. Cindy is a Bram Stoker Award® recipient. Her poetry has been nominated for the Elgin, Rhylsing, and Dwarf Star awards.
Learn more about Cindy at https://www.mimimatthews.com/. You can follow her on Instagram at @cindy.oquinn
Stephanie M. Wytovich
STEPHANIE M. WYTOVICH is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. She is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award, the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant, and the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for non-fiction writing.
Learn more about Stephanie at https://www.stephaniemwytovich.com/ You can follow her on Instagram at @swytovich.