{"id":4261,"date":"2023-06-02T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/?post_type=sf-podcast&#038;p=4261"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:03:29","slug":"episode-22-nemesis-by-sumiko-saulson","status":"publish","type":"sf-podcast","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/sf-podcast\/episode-22-nemesis-by-sumiko-saulson\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 22: &#8220;Nemesis&#8221; by Sumiko Saulson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-create-block-libsyn-podcasting-block\"><div class=\"libsyn-shortcode\" style=\"display:block\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Host: <a href=\"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/about-us\/#bio\">R. B. Wood<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker Nominated poet for their 2022 collection&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dookyzines.com\/2022\/06\/09\/the-rat-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry<\/em>&nbsp;<\/a>(<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dookyzines.com\/2022\/06\/09\/the-rat-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dooky Zines<\/a><\/em>), and an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror whose latest novel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mochamemoirspress.com\/product\/happiness-and-other-diseases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Happiness and Other Diseases<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;is available on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mochamemoirspress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mocha Memoirs Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner of the HWA Scholarship from Hell (2016) BCC Voice &#8220;Reframing the Other&#8221;&nbsp;contest (2017), Mixy Award (2017),&nbsp; Afrosurrealist Writer Award (2018), HWA Diversity Grant (2020),&nbsp; HWA Richard Laymon Presidents Award (2021), Ladies of Horror Fiction Readers Choice Award (2021)<br><br>Sumiko has an AA in English from Berkeley City College, writes a column called &#8220;Writing While Black&#8221;&nbsp;for a national Black Newspaper, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfbayview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco BayView<\/a>&nbsp;is the host of the SOMA Leather and LGBT Cultural District&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfleatherdistrict.org\/storytelling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erotic Storytelling Hour<\/a>,&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;and teaches courses at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.speculativefictionacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speculative Fiction Academy<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: R. 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Wood Sumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker Nominated poet for their 2022 collection&nbsp;The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry&nbsp;(Dooky Zines), and an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4263,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,75],"tags":[42,83,88],"class_list":["post-4261","sf-podcast","type-sf-podcast","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-sf-podcast","tag-flash-fiction","tag-podcast","tag-sudden-fictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sf-podcast\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sf-podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sf-podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sf-podcast\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sf-podcast\/4261\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}