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 […]

Andrew Snover’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Tusculum Review, Streetlight Magazine, Wrath-Bearing Tree, and The 33rd Anthology. He received his BA from Penn State in English with Honors and is currently studying to receive his MFA from Drexel University. He is working on his second novel and querying agents for his first. When not teaching writing or tutoring for the […]

Megan Kiekel Anderson (she/her) is a nerdy queer neurodivergent dark fiction writer. Her work can be found or is upcoming in such places as Flame Tree Press, The Arcanist, Dark Recesses Press, and Monstrous Books. She lives in Kansas City with her chaotic family including too many cats, chickens, and foster kittens. You can find […]

Kelsea Yu is a Taiwanese Chinese American writer who is eternally enthusiastic about sharks and appreciates a good ghost story. She has over a dozen short stories and essays published in or forthcoming from Clarkesworld, Fantasy, PseudoPod, and elsewhere. Her novella, Bound Feet, was a Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and her debut novel, It’s Only […]

Author of Corporate Body and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning story “Not the Man I Married,” R.A. Busby spends her spare time running in the desert with her dog and finding weird things to write about.