Mary Berman is a Philadelphia-based writer. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Mississippi, and she also holds a BA in writing seminars from Johns Hopkins University. Her short works have been published in Cicada, PseudoPod, Fireside, and elsewhere. Until Death is her debut novel.

Claire Jia-Wen is a speculative fiction writer originally from the 626 and has work published or forthcoming in khōréō, Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Apex, and more. A Viable Paradise and Clarion alum, she is currently a PhD student studying human-computer interaction. She is represented by Allegra Martschenko at Bookends Literary Agency and can be found at clairejiawen.com

S. L. Coney is the author of Wild Spaces, an Esquire Best of Horror 2023 pick and a 2024 Philip K. Dick Award finalist. Their short stories have appeared in St. Louis Noir and Gamut Magazine and their story “Abandoned Places” was selected for 2017’s Best American Mystery Stories. They still hold seashells to their ears to hear the ocean speak to […]

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 […]