Sumiko Saulson (pronouns: they/them or ze/hir) is an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror whose latest novel, the horror romance Somnalia: Metamorphoses of Flynn Keahi (sequel to Happiness and Other Diseases is available on Bram Stoker Speciality Press Award®-winning Mocha Memoirs Press. Sumiko is a 2x Bram Stoker Award® Finalist in the Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection category for Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry (2024, Bludgeoned Girls Press) and The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (2022, Dooky Zines). They have been nominated for an Elgin Poetry Award twice for these poetry collections, and won a third-place Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Stars Award for the 2022 poem “Surviving.” Other works include the non-fiction title 160+ Black Women in Horror Fiction, novels Solitude, Warmth, and Moon Cried Blood. Their short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including A Crack in the Code: Cybertronic Stories of Rebellion, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Horror Zine’s Book of Monsters, Tales For The Campfire, Clockwork Wonderland, Tales From the Lake Vol 3, Beasts and Babes, Scierogenous 2, Colors In Darkness: Forever Vacancy, Slay: Tales of the Vampire Noire, Blerdrotica 2: Couple’s Therapy, In Trouble, Manor of Frights, We’re Here: An Anthology of LGBT Horror, and The Green Hornet and Kato: Detriot Noir City.