S. A. (Austin) Chant is a novelist, prize-winning pie baker, and ardent tabletop gaming enthusiast. He is the author of one novel (Peter Darling) and two novellas (Coffee Boy and Caroline’s Heart). He lives in Seattle with his partner Sara, a gooey feline cryptid named Mercy, and Ranna, the world’s smartest orange cat.

Find him on Bluesky @essaychant and on Instagram @s.a.chant.

Recent Projects and Publications:

• “The White Spire at World’s End.” Short story published in Shatter the Sun: Queer Tales of Untold Adventure (Neon Hemlock, 2026).
• Peter Darling (Illustrated Spanish edition with new introduction from Zona Abisal Ediciones, trans. Ariadna Soler, 2026).
• Peter Darling (Special edition from Rainbow Crate, 2025, featuring a bonus chapter).
• Fantastic Intersections: Speculative Fiction and Romance. Panel with the Seattle Public Library and Clarion West.
• Building Trans-Inclusive Worlds. Workshop on gender-diverse worldbuilding for Clarion West. (Available on demand.)
• “Hostile Constructs: On Building Worlds at the Margins of Sex.” Article published in Strange Horizons.
• “High Maintenance.” Short story published in Your Body Is Not Your Body, a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology of trans-authored horror, from Tenebrous Press.
• The Speculation Postcard Club. Epistolary microfiction club on Patreon, 2023-2025.