Derek Newman-Stille (they/them) PhD ABD is a queer, nonbinary, disabled activist, artist, author, and academic. Derek teaches at Trent University, where they research representations of disability in Canadian Speculative Fiction. Derek has two new books out this year - We Shall Be Monsters (Renaissance Press) and Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins (Exile). Derek has published in venues like The Canadian Fantastic in Focus, Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid Site-Switching Ethnography, Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Quill & Quire, Uncanny Magazine, and Fireside Quarterly. Derek runs the 8 time Prix Aurora Award-winning digital humanities site Speculating Canada (speculatingcanada.ca)