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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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Endria Isa Richardson

Endria Isa Richardson is a queer Black and Malay person taking her time and writing stories about ghosts, race, rocks, and the prison industrial system. She holds a JD from Stanford, but is doing her best to retire from lawyering. You can find her wandering among the redwoods on Ohlone land in Oakland, California, and […]

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Victor Manibo

Victor Manibo is a speculative fiction writer living in New York City, and his writing is influenced by his experiences as an immigration and civil rights lawyer. As a queer immigrant and a person of color, he also writes about the lives of people with these identities.

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James L. Sutter

James L. Sutter is a co-creator of the bestselling Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games. He’s the author of the queer young adult romance novels Darkhearts and The Ghost of Us, as well as the fantasy novels Death’s Heretic and The Redemption Engine. In addition to Nightmare, his short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of […]

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Rowan Wren

Born and raised along the Irish coast, Rowan Wren is no stranger to salt-whipped villages and the strange stories they hold, making her interest in speculative fiction inevitable. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as well as several anthologies. When she isn’t writing she enjoys listening […]

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Juan Martinez

Juan Martinez is the author of Best Worst American, a story collection published by Small Beer Press and the winner of the Neukom Institute Award for Debut Speculative Fiction. His novel Extended Stay is forthcoming from University of Arizona Press’s Camino del Sol series in 2023. He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor […]

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Priya Chand

Priya Chand grew up in California and currently resides in the Chicagoland area. When she’s not reading or writing, she does martial arts, volunteers as a forest steward, and takes naps. She is co-editor on Reckoning 9. Find her online at priyachandwrites.wordpress.com.

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Jason Rekulak

Jason Rekulak is the author of The Impossible Fortress, which was translated into 12 languages and was nominated for the Edgar Award. For many years, he was the publisher of Quirk Books, an independent press, where he acquired and edited multiple New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Philadelphia with his family.

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Daniel David Froid

Daniel David Froid is a writer who lives in Arizona and has published fiction in The Masters Review, Lightspeed, Black Warrior Review, Post Road, and elsewhere.

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