Debbie Urbanski&rsquo\;s stories and essay s have been published in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\, T he Best American Experimental Writing\, and elsewhere. In 2019\, she recei ved a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers&rsquo\; Award for emerging women write rs of exceptional promise. In the novel After World\, humans have gone ext inct to save the planet\, and an AI storyworker is tasked with telling the story of Sen Anon\, the last human on Earth. \;
\nJedediah Berr y is the author of three novels and a story in cards. He and his partner\, writer Emily Houk\, run Ninepin Press\, an independent publisher of ficti on\, poetry\, and games in unusual shapes. In Berry&rsquo\;s second novel\ , The Naming Song\, an unnamed courier of the Names Committee is accompanied by a patchwork ghost\, a fretful monster\, and a nameless anim al who prowls the shadows while she searches for the truth of her past.
\nModerator: Carl Napolitano
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