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R. Diego Martinez

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 […]

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Carrie Finch

Carrie Finch is a writer in San Francisco, California. Her published fiction includes fantasy, science fiction, and horror. In her spare time she enjoys reading, dance, and picking up new hobbies.

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Michael Knost

Michael Knost is a Bram Stoker Award®-winning editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and supernatural thrillers. He has written in various genres and helmed multiple anthologies. He received the Horror Writers Association’s Silver Hammer Award in 2015 for his work as the organization’s mentorship chair. He also received the prestigious J.U.G. (Just Uncommonly […]

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Lilia Zhang

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. […]

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Kyle Tam

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 […]

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Ian Li

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 […]

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Cynthia Gómez

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 […]

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J.B. Kish

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 […]

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Josh Pearce

Josh Pearce has published more than 200 stories, reviews, and poems in a wide variety of magazines, including Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Cast of Wonders, Clarkesworld, Diabolical Plots, Kaleidotrope, Locus, Nature, On Spec, Weird Horror, and elsewhere. Find more of his writing at fictionaljosh.com.

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Samir Sirk Morató

Samir Sirk Morató is a scientist, artist, and flesh heap. Some of their published and forthcoming work can be found in Strange Horizons, X-R-A-Y, ergot., Cosmic Horror Monthly, and khōréō. They are on Bluesky and Instagram @spicycloaca.

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