rae Hawkins (he/him) is a writer and dreamer. He has an MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno, and works freelance as a sensitivity reader. An editor for Anathema Magazine and an alum of the Viable Paradise and Tin House workshops, his fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Augur Magazine, and in the acclaimed New Year, New You: a Speculative Anthology of Reinvention. He was a winner of We Need Diverse Books and Penguin Random House’s Black Creatives Revisions Workshop. He loves to write about empowering Afrofuturist worlds and far-off spacefaring shenanigans.