Cosmos Craft: Build Sci Fi Worlds and Characters from Scratch

MYIASHA BRITTON is a speculative fiction author and writing educator with over a decade of experience in publishing and creative writing instruction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and has taught worldbuilding and genre fiction workshops at writing conferences across North America, including the Writers Digest Annual Conference, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest, and regional NaNoWriMo events.

Britton's work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Lightspeed Magazine, among other publications. Her debut novel, The Last Echo Station, was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for best first novel in science fiction and was praised by Publishers Weekly for its "meticulous worldbuilding and deep emotional intelligence." Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award twice, and her story "The Cartographer's Daughter" was selected for inclusion in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy.

She is the founder of the Worldbuilding Workshop, an online community and resource hub that provides structured exercises, critique groups, and mentorship for emerging speculative fiction writers. Through the Workshop, Britton has helped more than five hundred writers develop their first novels, many of which have gone on to publication with major houses and independent presses.

Britton lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is at work on her next novel a space opera about memory, identity, and the cost of empire. When she is not writing, she can be found hiking in the Columbia River Gorge, studying amateur astronomy with her telescope, or rewatching Babylon 5 for the seventh time, taking notes on its layered political worldbuilding.