Beatrice Winifred Iker is a Southern Appalachian poet, author, and tarot reader. They are a Rhysling Award Finalist whose work can be found in Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, and others. Beatrice is a co-host of the Ignyte Award-winning Afronauts Podcast, which discusses and uplifts Black speculative fiction, and is […]

Natasha King is a Vietnamese American writer and nature enthusiast. Her poetry has appeared in Okay Donkey, Strange Horizons, Best of the Net, and elsewhere. In her spare time, she enjoys thinking about the ocean. She can be found on Twitter as @pelagic_natasha.

Jonathan Lees originally hails from a shuttered mill town in New England and now can be spotted lurking in the alleys of New York or deep within the barrens of New Jersey. In 2022, he unleashed “Power Out, Wind Howling” for the spirited anthology Even in the Grave, edited by James Chambers and Carol Gyzander, […]

Wen-yi Lee is a Clarion West alumni from Singapore who likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts. Her speculative writing has appeared in several anthologies, Uncanny, and Strange Horizons, among others, while her non-fiction musings have appeared on Tordotcom. You can find her on social media at @wenyilee_ and otherwise at wenyileewrites.com.

Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (he/him/his) is a speculative writer of Izzi, Abakaliki ancestry; a Medical Laboratory Science student whose works have been nominated for the Forward Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best of The Net Award. He was the winner of the 2021 Write About Now’s Cookout Literary Prize, a first runner-up in the 2022 EOPP. He […]

Dominica Phetteplace writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Fantasy, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Tor.com, wigleaf, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Best Microfiction. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Barbara Deming Award and fellowships from Tin House, Djerassi and MacDowell. […]

Kristina Ten’s stories appear in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, and elsewhere. She has won the McSweeney’s Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest, and has been a finalist […]

Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Nightmare, Pleiades, khōréō, The Florida Review Online, Wigleaf, Baffling Magazine, and the anthologies Best Microfiction 2021 & 2022, Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness, and Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest. She co-organized the performance series Fight for Our Lives and served as […]

Erik Grove is a writer, long distance runner, and little dog wrangler living and doing things in Portland, OR. You can find his work in places like Escape Pod, Buckman Journal, and the Space Cocaine anthology series. Follow him on Twitter @erikgrove or check out his webpage www.erikgrove.com for dog glamour shots, marathon training nonsense, and sundry writerly shenanigans.

Rob E. Boley likes to make blank pages darker. He lives with his wife and his daughter in Dayton, Ohio. By day, he manages and analyzes big data. Yet each morning before sunrise, he rises to strike terror into the hearts of the unfortunate characters dwelling in his novels, stories, and poems. He co-founded Howling […]