Izzy Wasserstein, queer and trans woman, is the author of two poetry collections, the 2022 short story collection All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From (a Lambda Literary Award finalist), the novella These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart (Tachyon, 2024), and the flash-fiction chapbook This Next Song is Called Punk Rock Valhalla (Neon Hemlock, 2025). She teaches writing and literature […]

Aishatu Ado is an Afro-German folklore ecologist obsessed with a question empire prefers unanswered: what does a story do when it refuses to stay dead? Drawing on African and diasporic cosmovisions, her work maps how oral traditions migrate across oceans, survive rupture, and seed futures. She won Fractured Lit’s 2025 Ghosts, Fables, Fairy Tales Prize, […]

Chris Panatier writes novels and short stories, illustrates things like albums and book covers, and gets into stuff. He’s easy to find on the internet because he likes attention.

Ash Vale (they/them) is a queer, non-binary Canadian writer who has an affinity for teeth and weird little guys in the woods. Their short fiction and poetry has been or will soon be published in places like Uncharted, PseudoPod, If There’s Anyone Left, and more. They’re also one of the co-founders of Otherside Spec, a […]

Lizzie Wade is a Mexico City-based science journalist and the author of Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures. It draws on the latest archaeological research to explore ancient sea level rise, the collapse of Old Kingdom Egypt, and many more apocalypses, from Neanderthal extinction to the Black Death to European […]

Audrey Coble is a writer of creative nonfiction and disability researcher living on Dena’ina land in Anchorage, Alaska. Their writing deals with memory, horror, gender, embodiment, cognition, and mediated realities. In 2024, they earned an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and their writing has since been featured in publications like Apocalypse Confidential, Hex Literary, and Bruiser […]

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe is an Ignyte award winning writer of the dark and fantastical, a poet, and a reluctant mathematician. He has poetry and fiction published or forthcoming in Podcastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Baffling Magazine, Lightspeed, F&SF and elsewhere. When he’s not writing about malfunctioning robots or crazed gods, he can be found doing whatever people […]

When she’s not writing, Wendy Nikel can be often found teaching high school students, planning road trips, and trying to befriend local wildlife. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Nature, and elsewhere. Her short story collections and time travel novellas are available online. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Ryan Habermeyer is the author of the novel Necronauts (Stillhouse) and the short story collections Salt Folk (Cornerstone) and The Science of Lost Futures. His award-winning stories and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Boulevard, DIAGRAM, and others. A Fulbright scholar who has lived, taught, and studied in Poland, Scotland, Spain, and Mexico, he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing […]