We’re Jes and Marie, co-authors of The Grigori Cycle, a multi-award-winning supernatural thriller series.
About Jes
Jes Honard (they/she) is a queer sci-fi/fantasy writer and professional coffee inhaler. Their coauthored debut, Unrelenting, won several awards, including the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards LGBTQ title. It was also a finalist for the Book Pipeline Unpublished Manuscript Competition.
Jes has also published short stories and poetry in several anthologies, including the Lesbians in Space anthology and Antifa Lit Journal, Vol. 1.
Jes finds their best words when writing about found family, queer identity, and what happens when we build bridges instead of walls.
They currently live in Kalamazoo, MI with their wife and two cats.
About Marie
Marie Parks (she/her)is a queer fantasy author living in New Mexico, where she hikes, goes camping, and eats copious amounts of green chile. She is the founder of Sandia Starforgers workshops for sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers.
In addition to winning multiple awards for Unrelenting, Marie was a finalist for the Futurescapes Award for Most Promising New Author for her social justice fantasy heist, Flightless (Shadow Dragon Press, 2026). Marie also received a 2025 New Mexico Writers Grant to support her writing.
She is the founder of Sandia Starforgers Writers Retreats and Workshops and is a panelist for conferences such as Dragonsteel and WriteHive.
She’s delighted by the birds at her feeders, the veggies in her garden, and asexual representation anywhere in the world.
Visit Marie’s author website at marieparks.com, and follow her on Bluesky, Instagram, and Facebook.
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