LP Kindred is a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer, editor, podcaster, and teaching artist of speculative fiction from the axes of Black and Queer Identities. An alum of Hurston-Wright, VONA, and Clarion, LP’s fiction features in Fiyah Literary Magazine, LeVar Burton Reads, Escape Pod, PodCastle, Queer Blades, and Anathema. Kindred’s editorial work appears in Speculative City and Voodoonauts Present: (Re)Living Mythology. LP Kindred is a cocoa-founder of Voodoonauts, a grassroots collective addressing the underrepresentation and isolation of Black Creators in the speculative fiction community. Kindred is also a co-host of Just Keep Writing, a podcast for writers, by writers to keep you writing. When not cheating on his novels and novellas and collections, LP can be found on ThatDamnedBirdApp and InfluencerGram @LPKindred.