Arley Sorg
Book Reviewer
Arley Sorg is an associate literary agent at kt literary. He is a two-time World Fantasy Award finalist and a two-time Locus Award finalist for his work as co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. Arley is also a SFWA Solstice Award Recipient, a Space Cowboy Award Recipient, and a finalist for two Ignyte Awards, for his work as a critic as well as his creative nonfiction. Arley is senior editor at Locus, a reviewer for Lightspeed, a columnist for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and an interviewer for Clarkesworld. He takes on multiple roles, including slush reader, movie reviewer, and book reviewer, and ran a series of interviews on his site: arleysorg.com. He has been a guest instructor or speaker at a range of events—and for a variety of audiences—from Worldcons to WisCons, from elementary students to PhD candidates. He was a guest critiquer for the 2023 Odyssey Writing Workshop and the week five instructor for the 2023 Clarion West Workshop. Arley grew up in England, Hawaii, and Colorado, and studied Asian Religions at Pitzer College. He lives in the SF Bay Area and writes in local coffee shops when he can. Arley is a 2014 Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate.
Nonfiction by Arley Sorg
- Book Review: Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables and Dark Tales, edited by Jamal Hodge
- Book Review: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
- Book Review: Faeries Never Lie, edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker
- Book Review: Sinophagia, edited and translated by Xueting Christine Ni
- Book Review: The Year’s Best Fantasy: Volume Three, Paula Guran, editor
- Book Review: The Crawling Moon edited by dave ring
- Book Review: The House Where Death Lives, edited by Alex Brown
- Book Review: We Mostly Come Out at Night edited by Rob Costello
- Book Review: Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima
- Book Review: The White Guy Dies First edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker
- Book Review: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
- Book Review: Captive: New Short Fiction From Africa (Rachel Zadok & Helen Moffett, editors)
- Book Review: The Black Girl Survives in This One (edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell)
- Book Review: Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo
- Book Review: McSweeney’s 71: The Monstrous and the Terrible (edited by Brian Evenson)
- Book Review: Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Fantasy, Volume 2
- Book Review: Unspeakable Horror 3 edited by Vince A. Liaguno
- Book Review: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
- Book Review: The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan
- Book Review: Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures, edited by Alex Woodroe
- Book Review: The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem
- Book Review: Infinite Constellations, edited by Khadijah Queen and K. Ibura
- Book Review: New Suns 2 edited by Nisi Shawl
- Book Review: Queer Little Nightmares edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
- Book Review: The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
- Book Review: Meteotopia, edited by Chattopadhyay, Rüsche, & Verso
- Book Review: Tomorrow’s Parties, edited by Jonathan Strahan
- Book Review: Eternally Yours, edited by Patrice Caldwell
- Book Review: Africa Risen, edited by Thomas, Ekpeki, & Knight
- Book Review: Our Shadows Have Claws, edited by Méndez & Ortiz
- Book Review: El Porvenir, ¡Ya!, edited by Duncan, Irizary, & Rendón
- Book Review: Dreams for a Broken World, Day & Meeropol, editors
- Book Review: Disruption, edited by Zadok, Szczurek, Snyman
- Book Review: Unlimited Futures, edited by Ismail and van Neerven
- Book Review: Screams From the Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow
- Book Review: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, by Kim Fu
- Book Review: Trouble the Waters, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, and Troy L. Wiggins
- Book Review: Reclaim the Stars, edited by Zoraida Córdova
- Book Review: Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, edited by dave ring
- Book Review: The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
- Book Review: No Gods, No Monsters, by Cadwell Turnbull
- Book Review: We’re Here, edited by C.L. Clark and Charles Payseur
- Book Review: Far Out, edited by Paula Guran
- Book Review: Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington
- Book Review: Black Sci-Fi Short Stories, with editorial support from Tia Ross
- Book Review: Spider King, by Justin C. Key
- Book Review: Broken Fevers, by Tenea D. Johnson
- Book Review: Latinx Screams, edited by V. Castro and Cynthia Pelayo
- Book Review: Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap
- Book Reviews: December 2020
- Book Reviews: September 2020
- Author Spotlight: Ray Nayler
- Book Reviews, June 2020
- Author Spotlight: Celeste Rita Baker
- Author Spotlight: Tahmeed Shafiq
- Book Reviews: March 2020
- Author Spotlight: Alexander Weinstein
- Book Reviews: December 2019
- Author Spotlight: Ray Nayler
- Author Spotlight: Jenny Rae Rappaport
- Book Reviews: September 2019
- Author Spotlight: Senaa Ahmad
- Book Reviews, June 2019
- Author Spotlight: Matthew Corradi
- Book Reviews: March 2019
- Author Spotlight: Meg Elison
- Author Spotlight: Seanan McGuire
- Book Reviews: December 2018
- Author Spotlight: Stephen Graham Jones
- Author Spotlight: Molly Tanzer
- Author Spotlight: Cameron Van Sant
- Book Reviews: September 2018
- Author Spotlight: G.V. Anderson
- Author Spotlight: Lina Rather
- Book Reviews: June 2018
- Author Spotlight: Kodiak Julian
- Author Spotlight: Ruth Joffre
- Book Reviews: March 2018
- Author Spotlight: Bogi Takács
- Author Spotlight: José Pablo Iriarte
- Author Spotlight: Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
- Author Spotlight: Adam-Troy Castro
- Author Spotlight: Tony Ballantyne
- Author Spotlight: Debbie Urbanski
- Author Spotlight: Shweta Narayan
- Author Spotlight: Susan Jane Bigelow
- Author Spotlight: Seanan McGuire
- Author Spotlight: Lina Rather
- Author Spotlight: Susan Palwick
- Author Spotlight: Rachel Swirsky
- Author Spotlight: Ashok Banker
- Author Spotlight: Ian R. MacLeod
- Author Spotlight: Jeremiah Tolbert
- Author Spotlight: Kat Howard
- Author Spotlight: Charles Payseur
- Author Spotlight: Violet Allen
- Author Spotlight: Lavie Tidhar
- Author Spotlight: Chris Kluwe
- Author Spotlight: Will Kaufman
- Author Spotlight: Mary Anne Mohanraj
- Author Spotlight: Steven Barnes