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Hayley Stone
Hayley Stone is not mentoring this year, but has mentored Adult
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Hayley Stone
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Hayley Stone is a writer, editor, and poet from California. She is best known for her adult sci-fi novel, MACHINATIONS, which was chosen as one of Amazon’s Best Sci-fi & Fantasy Books for 2016, and her cult hit, MAKE ME NO GRAVE, a weird western. Her short fiction has appeared in Fireside Fiction, Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, and various anthologies, while her speculative poetry is widely available online.

Other Published Works

Machinations (Hydra/Random House, July 2016)
Counterpart (Hydra/Random House, October 2016)

Favorite Books

God's War by Kameron Hurley
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Circe by Madeleine Miller
Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Years Mentored
2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
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