Everdeen Mason is a journalist, editor and critic with bylines in The Washington Post, Refinery29, and The New York Times. She currently serves as the editorial director of New York Times Games, overseeing games such as Wordle, the Crossword and Spelling Bee. She served as the science fiction and fantasy columnist for three years, and […]

Mike Thorn is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See. His stories have been featured in Augur, Vastarien, NoSleep, Tales to Terrify, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has appeared in American Gothic Studies, The Weird: A Companion, American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. He co-hosts the writing-themed Craftwork podcast with Miriam Richer, and he is currently editing […]

April Elaine Carson is a writer and illustrator based on the east coast of the United States. She enjoys spending her winters writing and painting by an open window. Her work has been published in Stanchion, Mud Season Review, and Nightmare Magazine. More published work can be found on her website at aprilelainecarson.com.

P.C. Verrone’s work has appeared in FIYAH, PodCastle, and multiple anthologies. His fiction has received the Otherwise Award, the Tin House Residency, the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction, and won the inaugural Black Creatives Revisions Workshop (We Need Diverse Books & Penguin Random House). His debut novel, Rabbit, Fox, Tar is forthcoming from Catapult in […]

Lyndsie Manusos’s work has appeared in numerous publications across genres, including Barrelhouse, Passages North, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, LeVar Burton Reads and more. Her debut novella, From These Dark Abodes, was well-reviewed in Publishers Weekly, longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association awards, and appeared on Locus Magazine’s annual recommended reading list. […]

Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her short fiction has previously appeared in publications such as Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and Psychopomp, including her Nebula Award Finalist novelette “What Any Dead Thing Wants”. She is also the author of four novellas, the latest of which, Starstruck, arrived from Psychopomp in June 2025.

Shantell Powell is an Indigiqueer swamp hag/elder goth who grew up in an apocalyptic cult on the land and off the grid. She is an alum of the Banff Centre for the Arts, The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University, and the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. Her writing appears in Augur Magazine, Solarpunk Magazine, The Deadlands, […]

Betsy Aoki is a poet and speculative fiction writer whose work has been published in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, The Deadlands and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She is currently Poetry Editor for the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Aoki’s debut poetry collection about women in technology, Breakpoint, was a National Poetry Series Finalist. Its signature poem, “Slouching like a velvet rope,” […]