Costuming/Cosplay For two decades, RavenCon has been proud to keep fandom's tradition of costuming or cosplay-you choose what to call it-alive with our annual Masquerade. While times change and themes change, convention costuming has always been a vibrant part of any type of convention, big and small. Here at RavenCon we are proud to offer a Cosplay Trifecta across the weekend to fit your cosplay style. Cosplay Karaoke RavenCon Grand Masquerade Kids Costume Parade www.RavenCon.com

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Jo Miles writes optimistic science fiction and fantasy, including the Infinite Pantry cozy fantasy series and the Gifted of Brennex space opera trilogy. Their short stories have appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, and more. Jo lives in Maryland, where they help nonprofits use the internet to save the world, but mostly serve the whims of their two cats. Explore all their work and sign up for updates at jomiles.com.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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D.M. Mewha lives in the magical land of “The DC Suburbs” where he does battle with monsters such as “Beltway Traffic” and “Wow, Everything Is Too Expensive” with the help of his talented and far-too-patient wife and an assorted menagerie of pets that she threatens to make weirder as time goes on (people don’t really want skunks as pets, do they?). He writes sci-fi and fantasy in a variety of flavors and is a certified TTRPG nerd who dabbles in some tabletop wargaming, which sounds better than “he plays with little plastic guys and makes them go ‘pew pew’.”

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Cass Morris lives her life at the intersection of storytelling, performance, and education as a writer and editor of novels, short fiction, and immersive experiences. Her novels, The Aven Cycle, are Roman-flavored historical fantasy. She is also one-third of the team behind the five-time Hugo Award Finalist podcast Worldbuilding for Masochists. Cass works as Story Editor at Mythik Camps, providing writing and developmental editing for the mythology-themed summer camps’ interactive theatrical experiences, as well as other programming and media projects, including writing and performing the family-friendly Myths and Muses podcast. Previously, she worked in the education department at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA and has taught English at Reynolds Community College. She holds a Master of Letters in Shakespeare studies from Mary Baldwin University and a BA in English and History from the College of William and Mary. Find her online at linktr.ee/cassrmorris.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Mako Minami “Aging cosplayer: hobby → pro (pending driver update) • PC gamer (RGB prayers & duct-tape builds) • Yap god on techniques • Con dad fixing malfunctions, armor, & bad frames • Too many fandoms, one overheating GPU”

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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From Winston-Salem, NC, Memphis Muerte combines southern sass and Puerto Rican passion. She has been lighting up stages and informing and entertaining panels since 2011. The spooky scholar that’ll make you holler!

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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I’m a cosplayer out of Richmond, VA. Under the cosplay name mr.i_will_x_tell, I put together my first cosplay in 2022. Best known for my DC and Marvel cosplays, I love cosplay because it gives you a break from some of the stress of real life. You can dress as a fandom you love and meet other people with the same passion. Also the smiles from kids being able to meet their favorite heroes and villains from comics definitely makes it worthwhile. My biggest goal as a Richmond cosplayer is to bring everyone together in the city to show the rest of the world that we have a great cosplay community here. You can catch me most times doing movie meetups, photoshoots around the city, and showing love to the cons around Richmond.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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AI Drey Mychalus is a person and definitely not a simulation of one. He is a lifelong reader with a creative love for fantasy and speculative fiction of all sorts. After spending much of my college years collecting degrees like trading cards, I realized I needed to have a career to support myself beyond playing AD&D. I landed a number of jobs along the way, including archaeologist, history docent on the Maryland Dove sailing ship, and running a prison law library. Eventually I became a source of trauma for the public school system where they paid me to share stories written by others along with more subversive activities like teaching kids how to imagine and think for themselves. Along the way, I wrote school policies on book challenges and helped develop curriculum in every subject except math. In my spare time I am an equestrian and reenactor and also dabble in blacksmithing and medieval martial arts with more than 40 years experience. Now a writer with publication credits as diverse as covering neopagan topics for WitchVox, as well as writing fiction, of which I have done much. Published works include a story in the anthology Fae Thee Well by Dreampunk Press and one in the anthology Lurking in the Gene Pool by Three Cousins Publishing. I occasionally venture from my rural cabin to attend sci-fi, steampunk, and fantasy conventions in the mid-Atlantic region.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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A 25+ year high school science teacher, Bill Mulligan has parlayed his love of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films into podcasting, convention panels, indie filmmaking, and storytelling. With creative partners such as Christine Parker and Mark C. Lucas, he has worked on five feature films and numerous shorts, including the award-winning 400 Ways to Kill a Vampire, Belladonna, Cache Me If You Can, and Emotional Support Demon, based on his screenplays. His special effects and makeup work can be seen in Blood of the Mummy, Knob Goblins, and The Five Stages of…. When Covid put a temporary stop to indie films, he turned an unproduced screenplay into his first novel, Raum, published by Falstaff Books. He is looking forward to retirement and a life spent fishing, writing, and making movies. He lives in Sanford, NC, with his wife and seven cats, which is admittedly a lot of cats.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Originally from Minnesota, Dennis M. Myers developed a serious reading habit early in life due to the influence of his grandmother. In high school he read one particularly “awful” book and, with all that teenage hubris, decided he could do better. He joined the US Navy in 1982. An avid roleplayer, he sold his first adventure to Challenge Magazine in 1990. While serving on submarines, he compiled ideas for what became the Automated Empire universe; a timeline spanning 4,000 years. In 2017, the opportunity came to write full-time for several months. With the full support of his wonderful wife, May, he began the book that is now known as Final Assembly, the first in his series, Rise of the Automated Empire. His latest novel, Secret of the Ombax, was published in October, 2025. Fifth in the Automated Empire Universe, first of a new series. He can be found at AutomatedEmpire.com.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Tonya possesses a strong educational foundation and diverse expertise, making her a versatile professional. Her academic credentials include a PhD in Higher Education Administration, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Master of Arts in English, Master of Arts in Education with a specialization in Curriculum and Instruction, Master of Arts in Appalachian Studies, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, and an Associate of Arts in Fine Arts. Tonya is a proud US Marine Corps veteran. Her professional expertise spans academics, coaching, instructional design, and writing. She has been published in fiction for over 20 years as Cara North, September North, and Echo North. She is a certified teacher consultant for the National Writing Project.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Meg Nicholas is a folklorist and storyteller of mixed Munsee-Delaware and Welsh heritage. She holds an MA in Public Sector Folklore and a BA in history from George Mason University. She currently serves as a Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center, in the Library of Congress, where she contributes wisdom on the stewardship and presentation of Indigenous culture within the Center’s archival collections and public programs. She is the producer of the Center’s Community Collections subseries of the Folklife Today podcast. She is also a regular writer on the Folklife Today blog, covering topics as varied as cryptids, foodways, puppetry, and the intersection of science, history and folklife.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Bishop O’Connell is author of the American Faerie Tale series and the award-winning Two-Gun Witch series, as well as a consultant, writer, blogger, lover of kilts and beer, as well as a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Born in Naples Italy while his father was in the Navy, Bishop grew up in San Diego, where he fell in love with the ocean and fish tacos. After wandering the country for work and school (absolutely not evading mind controlling bunnies), he settled in Richmond VA, where he writes, collects swords, revels in his immortality as a “visionary” of the urban fantasy genre, and is regularly chastised for making up things for his bio. He can also be found online at A Quiet Pint (aquietpint.com), where he muses philosophical on life, the universe, and everything, as well as various aspects of writing and the road to getting published.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Katie Oslow is a provocative author, activist, and “gender fluid enigma” who creates at the intersection of dark speculative fiction and radical social commentary. Known for her philosophy of “gender chaos,” Oslow crafts stories that dismantle traditional binaries, exploring the visceral and philosophical nature of transformation. Her work spans across genres to address the complexities of the human experience: Sci-Fi Dystopia: In her Rebalance series, Oslow envisions a future where gender and biology are tools of both control and liberation. These narratives explore systemic power and the reclamation of self in worlds designed to categorize and constrain. Transformation Fiction: Her collection Lessons in Lace serves as a hallmark of her work in gender-swap and feminization erotica. In these stories, transformation is more than a plot point; it is a catalyst for deep introspection, exploring how the shift in physical form impacts identity, desire, and societal standing. The Nexum Universe: Her darker explorations are captured in the volume Sentenced to be His Sex Pet. This dystopian dark erotic thriller examines the architecture of ownership and the loss of agency, mirroring real-world power dynamics through an extreme, transgressive lens. Beyond her fiction, Oslow is a staunch advocate for transgender rights and social justice. She views her storytelling as a form of activism, utilizing “gender chaos” to challenge cis-normative structures and champion bodily autonomy. Whether writing about magical gender-swaps or dystopian enslavement, Oslow remains committed to visibility, authentic representation, and the pursuit of true liberation for all identities.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Chad Ownby is a theater teacher, podcaster, and film scholar from Richmond, VA. He finds love in analyzing and discussing films, TV, acting performances, and many various fandoms. Last year at RavenCon, he gave a presentation on his master’s thesis, “Anyone Can Be Batman: A Case Study on the Evolution of Batman in Film.”

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Sharon Pajka, PhD, is a professor of English at Gallaudet University. She is the author of Women Writers Buried in Virginia (2021) and The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe (2023), a 2024 Saturday “Visiter” Award Winner for “Adaptations of E.A. Poe’s Life or Works,” Haunted Virginia Cemeteries (2025), and forthcoming books on Virginia’s haunted colleges and Virginia witchlore. On the weekends, find her in the cemetery giving history tours or volunteering.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Martin V. Parece II Martin is an award-winning author of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, though his work often tends to bleed into multiple genres. He delights in bringing his readers stunning literary prose mixed with glorious cinematic-style writing with subtextual commentary. While other 80’s kids watched G.I. Joe and Transformers, he was scared to death from Alien and The Terminator (probably not the best content for an eight year old). While his friends growing up were reading Tolkien, Martin explored the lost landscapes of Robert E. Howard’s Hyboria with Conan. These works and movies shaped the kind of writer he became. Books should be cinematic and epic and adventurous and dangerous. The theatre of the mind is the greatest of all, and heroes should be normal people who find their power through extraordinary circumstances. Even Martin’s first faltering attempts at playing Dungeon Master contained big ideas with epic storylines, even if they fell short of the mark he aimed for. He set aside creation as adulthood and life happened, as they always do, but returned to it around 2009. He published his first novel in 2011. “In the end, I’m just a guy who likes to tell stories and headbang in the car. I hope you’ll come along for the ride.”

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Mur Lafferty is an author. Mur Lafferty is an editor. Mur Lafferty is a podcaster. Mur Lafferty podcasts about writing and writes about podcasting. She co-edits Escape Pod, a podcast with fiction. By writers. She also writes about murders in space, zombies, Minecraft, and Han Solo. Her writing and podcasting have resulted in numerous award nominations and wins, such as the Best Semiprozine Hugo for Escape Pod, Best Novel Hugo and Nebula, Best Fancast Hugo, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and was an inaugural inductee into the Podcast Academy Hall of Fame. Her books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal, and have been praised by Buzzfeed, CNET, NPR, among many others. She lives in Durham with her family.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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A performer for more than 35 years, Chuck Parker has filled many musical roles: heavy metal guitarist, singer/songwriter, jazz sideman, open mic host, filk circle regular, session player, and World’s Okayest Bassist™. Chuck has been a regular on the con circuit for more than a decade, and he’s played ballrooms, biergartens and backyards all over the country, both as a solo performer and as the bassist for nerdmusik icons The Blibbering Humdingers. He plays slice of life, confessional geek tunes that are often kind of funny, and his lyrics have been called “sensitive”, “literate”, and “hard to sing…” He is also a published poet, avid cyclist, spouse, father, and a herder of cats, both figuratively and literally. His music may be found at chuckparker.bandcamp.com, and his musings at chuck-parker.net.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Kent M. Peterson lives in Virginia, where he worked for many years as a software tester. He now focuses on gardening and writing.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Charles Pellegrino is the New York Times best-selling author of Her Name Titanic, Ghosts of the Titanic, To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima, and Ghosts of Hiroshima, along with eighteen other acclaimed books (including an SF trilogy under a pen name). At Brookhaven National Laboratory he was co-designer with Jim Powell of the Valkyrie relativistic rocket (hybridized with Bob Forward’s Star Wisp and animated for the Avatar series). With Jesse Stoff he co-authored the Europa Theory, worked out the chemistry of Saturn’s moon Titan, and advanced preliminary design (as in Darwin’s Universe, 1983) of the dragonfly Titan drone. He served as technical advisor to James Cameron on Titanic and serves presently on the Avatar series. As a graduate student in New Zealand, 1981, he invented what is now known as the Jurassic Park recipe, as subsequently adapted by Michael Crichton. Current projects include a new Jurassic Park direction (without the park) and the James Cameron film about double-hibakusha—people who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Raised by parents who believed in “Never give up” and aided by a few treasured teachers, he climbed up from dyslexia and autism. Never give up. And never let childhood’s sense of wonder drain away.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Hekla Petursson is the host of The 8-Bit Pop Culture Show as well as a filmmaker and performer working in Richmond, VA. Episodes of The 8-Bit Pop Culture Show are released weekly, where she interviews folks she admires in pop culture, geek scenes, and the arts. She is currently producing a feature film, Midnight Courier, and has two surrealist fantasy short films set to release in late 2026. Recently, you may have met her in-character at Richmond Renaissance Faire events, hosting Jeopardy at Galaxycon or as the voice of the Awesomecon Cosplay Competition.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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J.F. Posthumus writes tales where mystery tangles with magic, shadows whisper secrets, and danger always lurks just out of sight. A lifelong lover of the strange and fantastical, Posthumus blends crime, fantasy, and the supernatural into page-turning adventures. When not plotting new twists, she can usually be found wrangling her four younger “monsters” (her eldest, a police officer, passed in June 2023), crafting, creating digital art, or drinking too much tea while dreaming up her next story.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Born in Nottingham, England, Jennifer R. Povey (she/her) now lives in Northern Virginia, where she writes everything from heroic fantasy to stories for Analog. She has written a number of novels across multiple sub-genres. She is a full member of SFWA. Her interests include horseback riding, Doctor Who, and attempting to out-weird her various friends and professional colleagues. Find her on Facebook at facebook.com/jrpovey/, Mastodon at @NinjaFingers@universeodon.com, or Bluesky at @NinjaFingers.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Maya Preisler has been creating art and telling stories since they were old enough to hold a pen, writing and illustrating their first science fiction novel at age eight. Their art has been featured on book covers, convention badges, and in numerous art shows. Their professional credits include cover design, book layout and editing, videography, video editing and special effects, podcasting, acting, illustration, IT, and political campaign management. In 2020, they published their first novel: The Laws of Entanglement. They are also the author of three published short stories, including “Daughter of the Birds,” which was included in CORVID-19: A RavenCon Anthology. Maya is the Art Director for Mocha Memoirs Press. Learn more at mayarenee.com.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Alex Taylor first picked up a guitar at age 13, and by 20, he was touring the world—playing everywhere from local bars to cruise ships. He has shared the stage with a range of musicians, from local talents to internationally acclaimed artists such as Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Taj Mahal. In the convention world, he was a founding member of Paradox Machine and has served as a technical director and sound engineer for numerous conventions, including RavenCon and ConVivial. Steve Taylor holds a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance and has been performing worldwide since the 1970s. A former Guinness World Record holder for the most performances of Handel’s Messiah, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, performed at Disney alongside Rock Hudson, and collaborated with many other renowned artists. Together, this father/son duo makes up the cover band, Re: The Music of Jonathan Coulton and continues rocking the convention circuit.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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A twenty-year veteran of the industry, Stella Price has explored many avenues of the industry including owning a small press, and working as a cover designer for several small presses and traditional publishers on top of being a published author. An author of over 100 books, with a specific focus on paranormal and romance, she believes “happily ever after” isn’t just for fairy tales, and monsters need love too. She lives in South Carolina with her husband and dogs in a house where everyday is Halloween.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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M.T. Reiten served in the military, with deployments to Bosnia and Afghanistan, and worked as a scientist at a national lab in NM for over a decade proving that there is such a thing as too much research for writing science fiction. He practices aikido, makes pizza, and now lives near Washington, DC with his family. A Writers of the Future and Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Contest winner, he has published stories in Analog and DreamForge and several anthologies to include S. M. Stirling’s The Change, “Higher Ground” in Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos, and the newly released “Defense of Waygo Port” in Tales of the United States Space Force. Visit him online at mtreiten.com.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Kate Ressman has been writing for her entire life. It’s true—she has proof of a second grade story where a cat inherits his human’s money. She is the author of Cherry Blossom Express, To Market, and Sugar and Spice. A bit of a nomad in the past, she has settled down and currently lives in Northern Virginia. She has two businesses, a day job, and an imaginary cat.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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Miss Robinette of the Science Fiction Double Feature Drag Show is RVA’s rockin’ drag thing who loves to rock and roll! They’re also a musical theater actor and singer. You can catch them hosting drag brunches every month at the Gold Lion Community Café.

RavenCon 2026: April 24-26
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