‘Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She is currently a fellow at the Helen Zell Writers Program at University of Michigan where her work won a Henfield Prize and Hopwood Awards. She received a 2019 Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship Award by the Carl Brandon Society for the Clarion Workshop, and a 2018 Bread Loaf Conference […]

Eden Royce is a Freshwater Geechee from Charleston, South Carolina, now living in the Garden of England. Her short stories are in or forthcoming from various print and online publications including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vastarien, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Pantheon Magazine, and PseudoPod. Her debut middle grade historical Southern Gothic novel, […]

Caitlin Starling is a writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction of all flavors. Her first novel, The Luminous Dead, is out now from HarperVoyager. Caitlin also works in narrative design for interactive theater and games, and has been paid to design body parts. She’s always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia. Find more […]

Meg Elison is a Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Slate, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elison is a […]

Siobhan Carroll is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature, imperial ecology, and the history of exploration. Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. For a complete list of titles, visit voncarr-siobhan-carroll.blogspot.com.

Dan Stintzi received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University and was a member of the 2019 Clarion class. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and dogs. Find more of his fiction at danstintzi.com.

Suyi Davies Okungbowa is the Nigerian speculative fiction author of the godpunk novel, David Mogo, Godhunter (Abaddon, 2019). His internationally published fiction and nonfiction have appeared at Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Fireside, Apex, Podcastle, The Dark, and other periodicals and anthologies. He lives between Lagos, Nigeria and Tucson, Arizona, where he teaches writing to undergrads […]

Rich Larson (patreon.com/richlarson) was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of Annex and Cypher, as well as over a hundred short stories — some of the best of which can be found in his collection […]

Carlie St. George is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and speculative writer from Northern California. Her debut short story collection YOU FED US TO THE ROSES is available from Robot Dinosaur Press. Her short fiction can be found in Lightspeed, PseudoPod, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, and multiple other anthologies and magazines. Find […]

Benjamin Percy is the author of four novels—most recently, The Dark Net—three story collections—including Suicide Woods—and a book of essays titled Thrill Me that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. His sci-fi trilogy—The Comet Cycle—will be published in 2021 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been optioned by the Russo brothers (Avengers: Endgame). He is part of the […]