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Author Description Ben Francisco’s fiction ranges from magic realism to space opera and has been known to feature oversexed ghosts, depressed precognitive psychics, and pantheistic vampire aliens who reproduce like moss. Common themes include cultural misunderstandings, family dysfunctions, LGBTQ experiences, and spiritual searches.<br /><br />Ben’s short stories have won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, been featured in year’s best LGBTQ fiction anthologies, and been shortlisted for year’s best science fiction and fantasy anthologies. Their stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, PodCastle, Realms of Fantasy, Dreaming Again, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Shimmer, From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction, and It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility.<br /><br />Ben’s first novel, Val Vega: Secret Ambassador of Earth, a young adult Latinx space adventure, debuted in February 2024. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called it, “A captivating, heartfelt tale about family, diplomacy, and finding one’s place in the universe.”<br /><br />Ben lives in Brooklyn with their partner and has devoted much of their copious spare time to working for nonprofits advancing LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, and racial and gender justice.

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