Su J Sokol is a social rights activist, a freelance editor, mentor and workshop leader, and a writer of speculative, liminal, and interstitial fiction. A former legal services lawyer from New York City, xe now makes Montréal xyr home. Sokol is the author of three novels: Cycling to Asylum (2014), which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Run J Run (2019), and Zee (2020), a finalist for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Sokol’s short fiction and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including in The Future Fire, Glittership: an LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy Podcast, Recovery,Chronicling the Days, Revue Solaris, and Amazing Stories. Sokol has experience offering workshops to teachers as well as students of various ages, and particularly enjoys leading discussions and creating hands-on exercises concerning speculative fiction as a tool of social change.