Xan van Rooyen is an award-winning autistic and nonbinary storyteller from South Africa, currently living in Finland. Xan has a Master's degree in music and--when not teaching--enjoys conjuring strange worlds and creating quirky characters. You can find Xan's stories in the likes of Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Daily Science Fiction, and Galaxy's Edge, among others. They have also written several books, including Waypoint Seven (Mirari Press), My Name is Magic (Tiny Ghost Press), and the forthcoming Dorian Gray retelling, Exquisite Decay (Tiny Ghost Press). Xan is also part of the Sauútiverse, an African writer's collective, with stories in the multi-award-nominated anthology Mothersound, as well as the Sauúti Terrors anthology (Flame Tree Press). Xan has also had a number of non-fiction articles published, which you can find in the Locus Award-winning Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction (Bloomsbury, Australia), among others. You can find Xan online here: https: //linktr.ee/xanvanrooyen.