Zin E. Rocklyn is an award-winning author who has contributed short stories to numerous anthologies and zines, including Nox Pareidolia, Sycorax's Daughters, and Weird Luck Tales No. 7. A 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2021 Clarion West candidate, they contributed the nonfiction essay "My Genre Makes a Monster of Me" to Uncanny Magazine's Hugo Award-winning issue Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Of Trinidadian descent, they hail from Jersey City, New Jersey.