Belicia Rhea was born under a waning crescent moon in the Sonoran Desert. Her work spans genres, often leaning dark. She writes prose, poetry, and the spaces in-between. You can find more of her work published in or forthcoming from Miracle Monocle, Ghost Orchid Press, and others.

A.L. Goldfuss’s work has been longlisted for the Locus Award, British Science Fiction Association award, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. For past work and newsletter updates, visit algoldfuss.com

Dante Luiz is an illustrator, editor, and occasional writer from an island in southern Brazil. He’s also art director for Strange Horizons, and has edited an anthology and two magazines while he juggles art, fiction and non-fiction. He’s the interior artist for Crema (comiXology/Dark Horse), and his work with comics has also appeared in anthologies, […]

Jordan Shiveley is the author of the Dread Singles (@hottestsingles) Twitter account. Their work has also been seen in a variety of short fiction collections and tabletop roleplaying games, the Old Gods of Appalachia and Caring Into the Void podcasts as well as the upcoming novel Hot Singles in Your Area from Unbound. They live […]

Kiyomi Appleton Gaines is a writer of fairy tales and other fantastical things. She was a 2018 Contributing Editor at Enchanted Conversation, and contributor to Mad Scientist Journal 2019 Spring Quarterly. Her work has also appeared in Quail Bell Magazine, A Twist in Time, and The Grimm Reaper. When not writing fiction, she writes about […]

Susan Calvillo is a Chinese/Mexican-American mother of 2020 twins and the author of Excerpts From My Grocery List (Beard of Bees). Her short works have appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Zyzzyva, New American Writing, West Wind Review, and other charming magazines. She co-hosts the reading series Poets Upstairs in San Francisco. Keep reading at […]

Ian Muneshwar is a Boston-based writer and teacher. His short fiction has sold to venues such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and Black Static, and has been selected for Year’s Best Weird Fiction and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. He has taught writing in the Transitional Year Program at Brandeis University, in the Experimental […]

Manish Melwani is a Singaporean writer of strange and monstrous fictions that skulk the borderlands of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 2014, and then completed a master’s thesis at NYU entitled Starports, Portals, and Port Cities: Science Fiction and Fantasy in Empire’s Wake.  You can find him on the […]

Ali Trotta is a poet, editor, dreamer, word-nerd, and unapologetic coffee addict. Her poetry has appeared in Uncanny, Fireside, Strange Horizons, Mermaids Monthly, and Cicada magazines, as well as in The Best of Uncanny Magazine from Subterranean Press. She has a poem forthcoming in F&SF magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Curtains, a flash fiction anthology. A geek to the core, she’s previously written TV show reviews […]