Sonya Taaffe reads dead languages and tells living stories. Her short fiction and Rhysling Award-winning poetry have been collected most recently in the Lambda-nominated Forget the Sleepless Shores and previously in Singing Innocence and Experience, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens, A Mayse-Bikhl, and Ghost Signs. She lives with her husband and two cats in Somerville, […]

Kivel Carson is an emerging writer concerned with social justice, Black liberation, and representation through art and storytelling, particularly in the genres of literary fiction and Afrofuturism. Carson’s work examines human relationships, identity, and the unique ways in which Black women and queer folks experience the world around them. She has roots in the Midwest […]

Tim Waggoner has published over forty novels and five collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He’s won the Bram Stoker Award, the Horror Writers Association’s Mentor of the Year Award, and he’s been a finalist […]

Ama Patterson was an attorney, legal editor, and single mother. She was a graduate of Spelman College and the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop, and published stories in Dark Matter, Scarab, and 80! Memories and Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin. She was a judge for the 2001 Tiptree Award and helped […]

Adam R. Shannon is a career firefighter/paramedic, as well as a speculative fiction writer, aspiring cook, and steadfast companion of dogs. His work has appeared in Apex, Compelling Science Fiction, Every Day Fiction, and other magazines and anthologies. His story “On the Day You Spend Forever With Your Dog” was a finalist for the 2019 […]

Ian McDowell is the author of the novels Mordred’s Curse and Merlin’s Gift. His fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance and the anthologies Love in Vein, October Dreams 2 and the Science Fiction Book Club’s Best Short Novels 2005. He grew up in Fayetteville, NC, […]

Ashley Deng is a Canadian-born Chinese-Jamaican writer with a love of fantasy and all things Gothic. She studied biochemistry with an interest in making accessible the often-cryptic world of science and medicine. When not writing, she spends her spare time overthinking society, culture, and genre fiction. You can find her at aedeng.wordpress.com or on Twitter […]

Charlie Sorrenson grew up in Indiana and Aotearoa/New Zealand and received his MFA from UC Irvine, where his stories earned Honorable Mention for the Henfield Prize. His work is published in Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, The Iowa Review, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, among other places. His chapbook of stories, WALK ON YOUR KNEES, was a […]

Yohanca Delgado is an American writer living in Moscow. She is a member of the 2019 Clarion class and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. She is at work on a novel and a short story collection. Find her online at @yodelnyc.