Naseem Jamnia is the Markowitz Award-winning and Astounding Award-nominated author of inclusive speculative fiction for adults, teens, and kids. Their debut slice-of-life novella, The Bruising of Qilwa, set in a queernormative Persian-inspired secondary world, was a finalist for the IAFA Crawford, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Their middle grade summer-camp fungal horror debut, The Glade, is a finalist for the 2026 Ignyte Award. Naseem is the layout editor at Sword & Kettle Press, a tiny cooperatively owned publishing house of queer and inclusive speculative fiction; a writing educator focused on inclusive fiction at a variety of literary organizations and as faculty at the low-residency program at the University of Nevada, Reno, at Lake Tahoe; the Nevada chapter colead for Authors Against Book Bans; and a founder of both Freedom to Read Nevada and the Collective for Nevada Libraries. Born to Iranian immigrants in Chicago, they currently live outside Reno with their geologist husband and four furred creatures. Learn more and join their newsletter: NaseemWrites.com.