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, […]

J. Choe is a first-generation Korean American living in San Diego. She has a background in art and art history and worked at a private gallery before earning her M.Ed and becoming a teacher. She enjoys spending time with her family and dreaming up dark stories in the California sunshine.

Nuzo Onoh is a Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent. She is a pioneer of the African horror literary subgenre. Hailed as the “Queen of African Horror”, Nuzo’s writing showcases both the beautiful and horrific in the African culture within fictitious narratives. Nuzo’s works have featured in numerous magazines, podcasts, and anthologies. She has given talks about […]

Jamie Flanagan is an American writer and actor. Screenwriting credits include The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, and upcoming releases The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix), Creepshow: Season 4 (AMC Shudder), and Peacock’s Hysteria! They began their professional acting career in the world premiere of columbinus at Round House Theatre in […]

Suzan Palumbo is a Nebula and WSFA Small Press Award finalist, active member of the HWA, and Co-Administrator of the Ignyte Awards. Her debut dark fantasy/horror short story collection Skin Thief: Stories will be published by Neon Hemlock in Fall 2023. Her writing has been published by or is forth coming in Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy […]