Donald McCarthy is a writer and teacher from New York. He’s had essays appear with Salon, The Huffington Post, Paste Magazine, and more. His fiction has appeared in The Grey Rooms Podcast, Raconteur Literary Magazine, The Manhattanville Review, New Myths Magazine, and a host of other places. His website is donaldmccarthy.com.

Michael Kelly is the former Series Editor for the Year’s Best Weird Fiction. He’s a Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award-winning editor, and a two-time World Fantasy Award nominee. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Black Static, Nightscript, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 & 24, […]

Woody Dismukes is a Brazilian-American poet, author, and social advocate living in Jackson Heights, Queens. He is a 2018 Clarion West graduate and has taught at University Settlement’s Creative Center. He is the author of The Way the Cowries Fall, a poetry chapbook from the American Poetry Journal, and has had work featured in Lightspeed, […]

Erica Ruppert lives in northern New Jersey with her husband and several spoiled cats. Her work has appeared in magazines including Unnerving and Weirdbook, on PodCastle, and in multiple anthologies. Her novella, Sisters in Arms, will be published by Trepidatio Publishing in 2021. She is currently working on an unplanned yet persistent novel. When not […]

Anuel Rodriguez is a Mexican-American poet and freelance writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, PANK, decomP, and elsewhere.

E.A. Petricone writes dark and strange things. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Apparition Literary Magazine, Slice Magazine, All Worlds Wayfarer, Metaphorosis Magazine, Liminality, Triangulation: Extinction, Allegory, The Writer’s Chronicle, and other marvelous places. She holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Lesley University. She lives in Massachusetts. You […]

Justin C. Key is a speculative fiction writer, psychiatrist, and a graduate of Clarion West 2015. His short stories have appeared and are forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Escape Pod, and Interstellar Flight Magazine. He is currently working on a near-future novel inspired by his medical training. His […]

Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer. She’s sold over 50 stories to markets including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Shimmer. A recent novel, The Stone Wētā, was published by Paper Road Press, and her first collection, The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories, came out in 2020 from Lethe Press. Octavia attended Clarion West 2016, and was the 2020 visiting writer […]

Nicholas Royle is the author of three short story collections – Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories – and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited more than twenty anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories. Reader in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan […]