Human-Kind: Offsite Worldcon Reading with Interstellar Flight Press

Date: Thursday, August 14th, 2025

Time: 7:00pm PST - 9:00pm PST

Location: Seattle Beer Co. 1531 Western Ave P, Seattle, WA 98101

William Ledbetter

William Ledbetter is a Nebula Award winning author with two novels and more than seventy speculative fiction short stories and non-fiction articles published in five languages, in markets such as Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Escape Pod and the SFWA blog. He's been a space and technology geek since childhood and spent most of his non-writing career in the aerospace and defense industry. He is a member of SFWA, the National Space Society of North Texas, and a Launch Pad Astronomy workshop graduate. He lives near Dallas with his wife, a needy dog and three spoiled cats.​

Andrea Blythe

Andrea Blythe is an author, poet, and game writer. Necessary Poisons is her fourth collection of poetry. Her previous chapbooks include Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Tale (Interstellar Flight Press, 2020); Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (2018), a Kickstarter-funded collection of erasure poems; and Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a collaborative chapbook she coauthored with Laura Madeline Wiseman. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association and the Horror Writers Association. Find her on Twitter @AndreaBlythe or at www.andreablythe.com.

Priya Sridhar

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting. Capstone published the Powered series, and Unnerving Press published Offstage Offerings. Priya lives in Miami, Florida with her family.

Adria Bailton

Adria Bailton (she/they) imagines entire worlds and universes to share while spending her days studying atoms, the smallest unit of matter. More of their stories where they strive to create characters that reflect their own bisexuality, neurodiversity, and disability appear in Worlds of Possibility, The Colored Lens, and Constelación, among others. Her debut YA science fiction novel, Worlds Divide, is forthcoming from Balance of Seven Press in Spring 2026. They create from the US PNW, on the traditional territory of several Indigenous nations, including the Stillaguamish, Suquamish, and Duwamish. Find her at www.adriabailton.com

Alex Kingsley

Alex Kingsley (they/them) is a writer, comedian, game designer, and playwright. They are a co-founder of the new media company Strong Branch Productions, where they write and direct sci-fi comedy podcast The Stench of Adventure and other shows. Their debut novel Empress of Dust was published by Space Wizard Science Fantasy in Fall 2024, and the sequel Relic of Haven comes out in Fall 2025. Their short fiction has appeared in Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal, Sci-Fi Lampoon, and more. In 2023, they published their short story collection, The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales. Alex’s sci-fi plays have been produced in LA, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Alex’s SFF-related non-fiction has appeared in Interstellar Flight Magazine and Ancillary Review of Books. Their games can be downloaded pay-what-you-will at alexyquest.itch.io. This Fall, they will begin their graduate studies in speculative fiction at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

John Ciminello

John Ciminello is author of three chapbooks of poetry. His work has appeared in several anthologies such as Songs from the Flowering Mountains (2021) and Heartbeat of the Universe (2024). He resides in Naselle, on the southwest coast of Washington. Each morning, he does a walkabout in the woods to taste the sweet moist maritime air of beginnings. His poetry is an expansion of what he sees and feels through the cedar, raven, basalt, and mushroom worlds. He takes in the outside world then travels inward. His poems are a blend of musings, missions, medicine and mischief.

Christopher Cokinos

Christopher Cokinos's 2024 nonfiction book, Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow, came out from Pegasus to high praise from Kirkus, Sky & Telescope and other venues. It was a "Best of" in the Globe & Mail's 2024 list. Last year he also led an all-artists lunar surface analog mission at the SAM facility at Biosphere 2. He's had work recently in Esquire, Scientific American and Astronomy. He volunteers with The Planetary Society and wants all of us to save NASA.

Ursula Whitcher

Betsy Aoki

Joe Haldeman

Tod McCoy

Host or Publisher Interstellar Flight Press