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Ariadne Blayde

Ariadne Blayde is a playwright and fiction writer based in America’s last true bohemia, New Orleans. Her first novel, Ash Tuesday, is out from indie press April Gloaming, and her play The Other Room is produced around the world. Her short stories have won contests including the Saints and Sinners Fiction Prize and the Quantum Shorts People’s Choice Prize, and her writing has appeared in various anthologies. She writes speculative fiction, historical fiction, and work focusing on social and environmental justice. Ariadne moonlights as a ghost tour guide in the French Quarter.