P. L. Watts survived the Florida foster care system where she climbed Banyan trees and played with pythons and baby alligators. She worked her way through college and graduate school by slinging fabric, cheese, and drinks. She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Fellowship. Now she […]

B. Narr is a queer horror writer from Oklahoma. Their latest book, Hollow Bones–a novella about three women trying to save a dying Texas swamp, and the eldritch creature determined to stop them–is out now. You can also find them waxing poetic about monsters and horror in their nonfiction articles for Interstellar Flight Press and […]

Ally Wilkes is a British author of supernatural, cosmic, and weird horror. Her debut novel, All the White Spaces, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and her critically-acclaimed second novel, Where the Dead Wait, was released in late 2023. Ally’s short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including Nightmare, Three Crows, FOUND: […]

Osahon Ize-Iyamu is a Nigerian writer of speculative fiction. He is a graduate of the Alpha Writers Workshop and has had stories published (or forthcoming) from magazines such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Dark. You can find him ranting on Twitter @osahon4545.

Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. She is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award, the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant, and the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for non-fiction writing. Follow Wytovich at www.stephaniemwytovich.com and on Instagram @SWytovich and @thehauntedbookshelf. You can also […]

Donyae Coles is a speculative fiction author. Her short work has been published in a variety of horror and other speculative fiction magazines such as Weird Horror and Pseudopod. She has also appeared in anthologies including All These Sunken Souls, Stories of the Eye, and Howls: From the Scene of the Crime. Midnight Rooms is […]

While being rained on adjacent to Portland, Oregon, Monte Lin writes, edits, and plays tabletop roleplaying games. Clarion West got him to write about dying universes, dreaming mountains, and singularities made of anxieties. He can be found tweeting Doctor Who news, Asian-American diaspora discourse, and his board game losses at @Monte_Lin.

Erin K. Wagner (also E. K. Wagner) is a professor by trade, a medievalist by discipline, and a writer of speculative fiction by design. She lives in upstate New York, a storied and story-making place, but her roots are in Appalachia, since she grew up in rural southeast Ohio. Presently, she teaches an array of […]

John (@Wiswell) is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and Pseudopod. Horror has scared the will to live into him on many nights, so he writes to pay back the debt.

Steph Kwiatkowski is an Illinois-born writer whose natural habitat is the strip mall parking lot. A member of the postponed Clarion West class of ’20, she has worked as a preschool teacher, nonprofit administrator, and server of sugar in many forms. She now lives in a strange land with no winter, and can make you […]