Jalyn Renae Fiske is an educator, archivist, and librarian. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2017. That same year, she began her tenure as Fiction Editor for James Gunn's Ad Astra magazine. She is an alum of several writing workshops with the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction and the Ad Astra Institute for Science Fiction and the Speculative Imagination.
Her work has appeared in such publications as The Science Fiction Tarot anthology, Allegory, Wyldblood, Mythaxis, Fabled Planet, and Sword and Sorceries Vol. 7. Her first short story collection, Side Quest: Stories, was released in November. Jalyn resides in Texas with her life partner, three rescue cats, and a mountain of unread books.
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Check out her interview with West Texas Wordsmith that aired in July 2019.
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And her reading of "Verity's Faery Teas" on YouTube.