At first sight, the writer from the rural midwest Kim Liggett and the Toronto-based Canadian Kelly Robson have nothing in common other than the fact that they are women writing fantasy in English. Furthermore, they are bringing very different works to the 42 Festival: Ligget's feminist dystopian novel Grace Year and Robson's Waters of Versailles, a historic fantasy featuring a unique creature. So why did we decide to put them both in the same session? Maybe because they've both written dark works and won awards with works that come close to horror, for example. Or maybe because the above books, although very different, share some aspects, such as the subjects of desire, sex and repression. Or also because the Festival organisers feel that the discovery of these two authors deserves to be well publicised. And... well, as to the rest, you'll just have to listen to the questions that the also writer and YouTuber Andrea Izquierdo will be asking them in this session. And don't say we didn't tell you that you should attend...

Taking part:

Kim Liggett is a writer, having previously been an actress and musician in New York. She has written five novels and won the Bram Stoker prize, and her feminist dystopian work The Grace Year has just been translated into Spanish.

Kelly Robson is a Canadian writer who has been nominated for every major international fantasy award, including the Hugo and Nebula awards. Her works have been included in anthologies such as Agua en los pulmones and Lenguas maternas y otros relatos, and her nouvelle Waters of Versailles has just been released in Spanish.

Moderated by:

Andrea Izquierdo is a writer and YouTuber. She has written nine books, including the series starting with Otoño en Londres and Escape: las siete pociones. She works at the companies Literali Box and Meikabuk.