Mayookh Barua (s/he/they) is a Los Angeles-based writer from India who is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Southern California. His work explores sexuality, art, mythology and family through a queer South-Asian voice. A 2023 Roots.Wounds.Words Non-Fiction fellow, his works have appeared in The Audacity by Roxane Gay, Espace Art Actuel, The […]

Shane Hawk (enrolled Cheyenne-Arapaho, Hidatsa and Potawatomi descent) is a history teacher by day and a horror writer by night. Hawk is the author of Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror and other short fiction featured in numerous anthologies, and the co-editor of the anthology Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. He […]

Sharang Biswas is a writer, artist, and award-winning game designer. He has won Ennie, IndieCade, and IGDN awards for his games and has showcased interactive works at numerous galleries, museums, and festivals, including Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. His writing […]

Aigner Loren Wilson (she/her) is a queer Black writer and a 2023 double Ignyte Finalist for best novelette and best critic. She serves as a senior fiction editor at Strange Horizons and has guest-edited issues of Fireside Fiction and Apparition Literary Magazine. Her work has appeared in FIYAH, F&SF, Monstrous Futures, and more. When she’s not writing or editing for others, she’s learning, hiking, or […]

Frances Ngo (she/her) is a multiracial Mexican-Chinese poet, artist, and zoologist. You’ll find her roaming through fields, forests, and fens in search of birds and a good nature metaphor. Her illustrated poems have been published in Lesbians Are Miracles, the Mobile Moon Co-Op Zine, and Plumas Colectiva’s Vibe Radar. Follow her work on Instagram @tiny_zoologist

Dan Stout lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he writes noir with a twist of magic and a disco chaser. A novelist and freelance game writer, his prize-winning fiction draws on travels throughout Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim as well as an employment history spanning everything from subpoena server to assistant well driller. Dan’s stories […]

JP Bradham is an award winning female filmmaker and producer based out of Los Angeles. Always putting her work as a writer at the forefront of her passion for film, JP was a part of the first selected group of screenplay writers for the Sundance Co//ab Screenplay writing course, she has since completed a total […]

Mark Alpert is a former editor at Scientific American and the internationally bestselling author of eleven novels. His first book, Final Theory, was published in 23 languages, optioned for film, and condensed for Reader’s Digest; his latest novel is The Doomsday Show. The first book in his trilogy of Young Adult novels, The Six, was a finalist for the Beehive, Nutmeg, […]