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.

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 […]