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ADVERT: The Time Traveler's Passport, curated by John Joseph Adams, published by Amazon Original Stories. Six short stories. Infinite possibilities. Stories by John Scalzi, R.F. Kuang, Olivie Blake, Kaliane Bradley, P. Djèlí Clark, and Peng Shepherd. Illustration of A multicolored mobius strip with folds and angles to it, with the silhouette of a person walking on one side of it.

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Chris DiLeo

Chris DiLeo is the author of several horror novels, including Revival Road, Dead End, and The Devil Virus. He is a high school English teacher in New York. Follow him @authordileo.

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Angela Liu

Angela Liu is a Chinese-American writer/poet based in NYC and Tokyo. She is a two-time Nebula Award and 2025 Astounding Award Finalist. Her work has also been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, Ignyte, and Rhysling Awards. She previously researched mixed reality storytelling at Keio University in Japan. Her stories and poems are published/forthcoming in Clarkesworld, […]

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Elizabeth R. McClellan

Elizabeth R. McClellan is a disabled gender/queer demisexual poet writing on unceded Quapaw and Chickasha Yaki land in what settlers call the Mid-South. In their other life, they are a domestic and sexual violence attorney working with Latinx immigrant survivors to provide holistic civil legal services. Their work has appeared previously in Strange Horizons, as […]

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Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito

Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito is a Chinese American writer in Portland, Oregon. When she’s not spending time with her family outdoors, she crafts stories in horror, science fiction, fantasy, or whatever genre-bending she manages. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Nailed Magazine, Buckman Journal, Flame Tree Press’s Asian Ghost Stories, Strangehouse’s Chromophobia, Startling Stories, […]

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Amanda Song

Amanda Song is a writer by night, a product manager in tech by day, and a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2021. She grew up in Chicago and Beijing and now lives in Seattle with a vocal corgi. She is @amandasong0 on Twitter.

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Sean Noah Noah

Sean Noah Noah is a fiction writer, poet, and semi-former comedian from the northeast. You can find their work in Agapanthus Collective, Eunoia Review, Reflex Press, and elsewhere around the web. Their website is seannoahnoah.wordpress.com.

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Clara Madrigano

Clara Madrigano is a Brazilian author of speculative fiction. You can find her fiction in magazines ranging from The Dark to Clarkesworld, and in already published or forthcoming anthologies. Two of her stories were selected for the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List.

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Kiera Lesley

Kiera Lesley lives and writes in Melbourne, Australia with her partner and their retired racing greyhound. Her fiction has previously appeared in Little Blue Marble and Electric Spec. When not writing she enjoys tea, napping, heavy metal and hugs. You can find Kiera online at: www.kieralesley.com or on Twitter @KieraLesley.

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Corey Niles

Corey Niles was born and raised in the Rust Belt, where he garnered his love of horror. When he isn’t advising college students, he enjoys binge-watching horror movies and traveling to hoard American history in his cheeks like a chipmunk. He hasn’t met a creepy, isolated hiking trail that he hasn’t liked. In his spare […]

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Brian McAuley

Brian McAuley is an HWA author whose debut novel Curse of the Reaper will be published by Talos Press on October 4th, 2022. His short story “H.I.D.E.” can be found in Dark Matter Magazine’s Issue 010. Brian’s produced credits as a WGA screenwriter range from family sitcoms to horror films. He received his MFA in […]

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