Daniel Oluremi is a fourth-year medical student living and studying in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is an afrocentric speculative fiction writer and poet, with forthcoming works in Apex, Heartlines Spec and The Deadlands. He is also the first-runner up of the DKA Short Story Writing Competition 2024. In his free time, he enjoys discussing books and […]

Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer and poet who dabbles in the surreal. Her short work has been published by Apex, Catapult, DIVA, and many more. Her longer work includes the award-winning short story collection Turducken, as well as her books Sunbathers, Queen O’Nine Tails, and The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet. Her […]

R. Diego Martinez is an author and playwright from Los Angeles. His fiction has been published in the anthologies Why Didn’t You Just Leave: Ghost Stories with Cursed Morsels Press, and Death in the Mouth, Vol. 2: Original Horror from the Margins, ed. Cassie Hart and Sloane Leong. His theatrical work has been produced by […]

Lilia Zhang (she/her) is a storyteller and lover of all things animal- and brain-related. She has a degree in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University and a tendency to write character backstories longer than the actual stories. She likes to write about animals, women, the earth, and the burdens bequeathed to all of the above. […]

Kyle is a writer, game designer, and full-time complainer from the Philippines. Her nonfiction has appeared in publications like Clarkesworld, Interstellar Flight Press, Strange Horizons, and Into the Spine. Her games include the IGDN Honorable Mention MORIAH, Primadonna from PlusOneEXP, and Forsaken from Afterthought Committee. You can find her on Bluesky at @PercyPropa, or find […]

Ian Li (he/him) is a Chinese-Canadian writer, poet, economist, and developer, who started writing a little over a year ago after a lifetime of believing he could never be creative. In addition to writing, he also enjoys spreadsheets, data and statistics, and brain teasers. Find his work published in Orion’s Belt, Small Wonders, and Solarpunk Magazine, among other […]

Cynthia Gómez (she/her) is a writer and researcher. Her stories have appeared in The Acentos Review, Strange Horizons, and collections including Mine: An Anthology of Body Horror; 206-Word Stories; and Antifa Splatterpunk. Her novelette “The Shivering World,” was released in November 2022 as part of Split Scream Volume Two, from Dread Stone Press. She is […]

J.B. Kish is a weird fiction and horror author living in the Pacific Northwest. He is the co-chair of the Horror Writer’s Association Oregon Chapter, and his writing has been featured in The Cozy Cosmic (Underland Press), Cosmic Horror Monthly, Metaphorosis Magazine’s Best of ’22, and others. Additionally, he is a writing milestone book coach […]