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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.