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Stephanie Adams-Santos is a Guatemalan-American writer whose work spans poetry, prose, and screenwriting. With a penchant for the queer and fantastical, her work is rooted in the crossroads of ritual, ancestry, and environment. She is the author of Dream of Xibalba (forthcoming, winner of the Orison Books Poetry Prize), Swarm Queen’s Crown (finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards), Total Memory, and The Sundering (selected for a New York Chapbook Fellowship). Stephanie has been a story editor on the CW anthology horror series Two Sentence Horror Stories (now on Netflix) and is currently a writer on an upcoming 20th Century/Disney+ live action fantasy series and is developing an original fantasy pilot as part of the 2022 Ojala Ignition Fellowship. In addition to her literary work, Stephanie is a professional Tarot reader and occasional instructor of poetry and divination. She is making headway on a Major Arcana tarot deck inspired by occult animism. www.obscurobeach.com