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Spencer Ellsworth

Spencer Ellsworth has been writing since he learned how. He is the author of four novels, including the space opera A Red Peace and the socialist steampunk The Great Faerie Strike. His short work has appeared in Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many other places. He lives in Bellingham, Washington, with […]

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Raja Abu Kasm

Raja Abu Kasm is a mess masquerading as a mess. When he’s not writing fiction (or at least what he passes off as fiction), he’s trying to figure out why no one appreciates the minutiae of pop culture trivia. You can find them on Twitter @RajaAbuKasm.

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Kay Chronister

Kay Chronister is a writer of dark and speculative fiction. Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, The Dark, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Her Shirley Jackson award-nominated collection of short stories, Thin Places, was published by Undertow Publications in 2020. Her first novel, Desert […]

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Dawn Davis

Dawn Davis (@playerprophet on Twitter) is a queer writer, editor, and storyteller living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She spends her days juggling her interests in reading, writing, drawing, wildcrafting, playing video games, and rescuing cats. Her ultimate goal in life is to tell stories that make you cry.

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L. Marie Wood

L. Marie Wood is an award-winning dark fiction author, screenwriter, and poet with novels in the psychological horror, mystery, and dark romance genres. She won the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper.  She is a MICO Award nominated screenwriter and has won Best Horror, Best Action, Best Afrofuturism/Horror/Sci-Fi, and Best Short Screenplay awards […]

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Robert Levy

Robert Levy lives in Brooklyn near a toxic canal, and is expecting his mutant powers to materialize any day now. An infrequent playwright whose work has been seen Off-Broadway, his novel The Glittering World (Gallery/Simon & Schuster) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award as well as the Shirley Jackson Award. Shorter work has […]

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Jarod K. Anderson

Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist Podcast) has built a large audience of social media followers and podcast listeners with his strange, vibrant appreciations of nature. Wholesome and odd, The CryptoNaturalist is a scripted, single-voice podcast about fictional wildlife. Jarod’s poetry collection Field Guide to the Haunted Forest currently has over 300 five-star reviews on Amazon […]

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Mel Kassel

Mel Kassel is a writer working on her first story collection and novel. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, The Toast, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Clarion alumna, and a World Fantasy Award winner. Despite being a dog person who loves the […]

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Erich Krauss

Erich Krauss is uniquely qualified to write this story of the world’s worst natural disaster. He has a degree in geomorphology with a specialization in natural disasters and is the author of Wall of Flame, a nonfiction account of the 2003 California wildfires. He resides in Thailand and San Diego, California.

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Melanie R. Anderson

Melanie R. Anderson is an associate professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. She is the co-author of the Bram Stoker and Locus award-winning book Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (2019). In addition to academic essays related to the supernatural and horror in American literature, she is the author […]

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