Guests of Honor
CrossingsCon is proud to welcome our guests of honor for 2025!
Jessica Mary Best
Jessica Mary Best is a multi-award-winning freelance writer/editor, an amateur singer/songwriter and a well-intentioned ball of pure quivering anxiety. Her audio drama work includes creating and scripting The Strange Case of Starship Iris and Keep It Steady, and she has also written for Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery and World Gone Wrong. Her first novel is a queer YA sci-fi mystery called Stars, Hide Your Fires. Her fanfiction was once quoted very briefly in an NPR feature, which frankly continues to boggle her mind.
We could not be happier to have Jessica join us for CrossingsCon 2025! You can find out more about Jessica and her works on her website.
Jessica Day George
Jessica Day George is the NYT bestselling author of 16 books and counting for middle grade and teen readers. She has a degree in Fairy Tales and Mythology- okay, Humanities- from Brigham Young University, and loves collecting books on Norse mythology, Norwegian folktales, and the sagas. Originally from Idaho, she has lived in Delaware, New Jersey, and Utah, where she currently lives with her husband and three children. She likes books, dark chocolate, dogs, movies, and Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar with a shot of coconut syrup.
We are super excited to have Jessica return for CrossingsCon 2025 after she previously joined us at CrossingsCon 2021! You can read more about her on her website.
Megan Whalen Turner
Megan Whalen Turner is an award winning and NYT bestselling author of fantasy for children, adults and young adults. Her novel The Thief was a Newbery Honor book in 1997. It is the first of six books set in the world of the Queen’s Thief. Turner has been awarded a Horn Book Honor, been shortlisted twice for the Norton Award, and won both the Mythopoeic Award and the LA Times Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Satisfying for all ages, her books are filled with political machinations, divine intervention, friendship, fortitude, and deceit. It is a testament to their staying power that twenty five years after The Thief was published, readers were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Return of the Thief in October 2020.
We are thrilled to have Megan maker her third appearance at CrossingsCon 2025 after she joined us for CrossingsCon 2021 and 2022! You can read more about her on her website.
Seth Dickinson
Seth Dickinson is the author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant and Exordia, and a writer on video game universes including Destiny, House of the Dying Sun, and the upcoming Subnautica 2. Seth’s favorite book growing up was “My Enemy, My Ally” by Diane Duane. Seth dreams of becoming a muscular yet small-brained deepwater fish.
Find out more about what Seth does on his website.