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Storm Humbert is a science fiction and fantasy writer from a small town called Fayette (literally a one stoplight town) in northwest Ohio near the Michigan border. He did his undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University, where he earned a degree in English literature with minors in creative writing and theater. For two years after he finished his bachelor's degree, Storm worked odd jobs ranging from newspaper editing to creating animated digital advertisements (and basically anything in between).
Storm later earned an MFA from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he had the opportunity to study under Samuel R. Delany, Don Lee, and other great instructors. He has taught a variety of writing classes at Temple University and Sienna Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. He currently lives in Michigan with his wife, Casey, son, Sylas, and cats: Chicken Nugget (Nugget for short) and Honey Mustard, and is a professional legal writer, while he continues his own writing.

In addition to his own writing, Storm is also the Managing Member of the Calendar of Fools small press (found here). Their first anthology, “Inner Workings” released in 2023, and their second, “Intergalactic Rejects,” which Storm edited, was released in June 2025. Both are available anywhere books are sold.

Additionally, Storm was a Silver Honorable Mention in The Writers of the Future Contest in 2016 and a finalist in the same contest in 2018. In the Third Quarter of the 2019 Writers of the Future Contest, Storm won Third Place with his “Stolen Sky”. Danny Hankner began penning stories about himself and his idiot friends as a teenager. Now, masquerading as an adult, he lives in Davenport, Iowa with his wife and kids, working as a master electrician for his own company. In his spare time, Dan rides and builds mountain bike trails, scrapes infinitely spawning cat hurl off the basement floor, and runs Story Unlikely, an award-winning literary magazine where he floats around self-important titles like Benevolent Dictator and Literary Spirit Guide. His written material has been consumed by hundreds of thousands of people from all four corners of the globe.