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 […]

Hannah Yang is a speculative fiction writer who loves all things strange and surreal. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Analog, Daily Science Fiction, The Dark Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and other marvelous publications. She has a BA from Yale University and lives in Colorado. When she’s not busy writing, you can find her painting […]

Okwudili Nebeolisa is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he is a Provost Fellow and won the Prairie Lights John Leggett’s Prize for Fiction. His poems have appeared in The Sewanee Review and Threepenny Review, are forthcoming in Image Journal, and have been nominated for a pushcart by Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, and Salamander Magazine. His nonfiction has appeared in Catapult and Commonwealth […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Sarah Grey’s stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Daily Science Fiction, and Flash Fiction Online, and have twice received an Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Her poetry can be found in Liminality, Eye to the Telescope, Star*Line, and Polu Texni. She lives with her family near Sacramento, California, and occasionally moonlights as a lawyer.