Riley Passmore is an award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer based in Tampa. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida in 2015, and in the summer of 2025 he attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop at UC San Diego. His fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Radon Journal, Swamp Ape Review, Small World City, and many others. Follow him on Bluesky @RDPassmore.