E. Catherine Tobler’s short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others. Her novella, The Necessity of Stars, was a finalist for the Nebula, Utopia, and Sturgeon Awards. She currently edits The Deadlands.

Fatima Taqvi is a Pakistani writer living in London. She has words appearing in Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fusion Fragment and Fantasy Magazine. She can be found on Twitter @FatimaTaqvi and at www.fatimataqvi.com.

Oyedotun Damilola Muees is a Nigerian writer of contemporary and speculative fiction, and an associate member of SFWA and ASFS. His short story, “All We Have Left is Ourselves,” was a winner of the 2022 PEN Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers, and a winner in the 2022 Utopia Awards in the short story […]

Jenny Kiefer is a Kentucky native and avid rock climber. Together with her mother, she is the owner and manager of Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky. This Wretched Valley is her debut novel. She has also been published in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Pseudopod, and Fantasy and Science Fiction.

George Sandison is an editor, independent publisher and writer. He spends his days heading up the fiction team at Titan Books, a found family of nerds deeply committed to the infinite wonders of genre fiction. Before/alongside that he ran the multiple-award-winning Unsung Stories, which closed in 2023. When not using his professional guises to smuggle […]

Adriana C. Grigore is a writer from the windswept plains of Romania. They have a degree in language and literature, a penchant for folklore, and a tendency to overwater houseplants. You can find their fiction in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and others.

H.B. Menendez is a librarian and a writer of (mostly) speculative fiction. Born and raised in Florida, she now lives in Texas with an excellent cat and a small houseplant jungle.

Jessica Luke García (any pronouns) was raised in the rural borderlands of the American Midwest. They currently live in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain with their husband, Erik, and Antigonus, a retired feral cat. They can be found on Twitter and Instagram@10itemsorjess, and at www.jessicalukegarcia.com.

Somto Ihezue is a Nigerian-Igbo writer, filmmaker, and editor. He is Original Fiction Manager at Escape Artists, and an editor with Apex Magazine and Cast of Wonders. He was awarded the 2021 African Youth Network Movement Fiction Prize. A BSFA nominee, Nommo Award-nominee and finalist for the 2022 Afritondo Prize, his works have appeared in Tor’s Africa […]