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Samuel Peters

Samuel Peters is the kind of guy to have a perfectly curated playlist for every type of existential crisis. When he’s not reading and discussing on horror and mystery novels with whoever is interested, this Nigerian freelance writer and college student goes undercover as one of his alter egos, O.P Leye on Medium, writing on […]

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Aimee Ogden

Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her short fiction has previously appeared in publications such as Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and Psychopomp, including her Nebula Award Finalist novelette “What Any Dead Thing Wants”. She is also the author of four novellas, the latest of which, Starstruck, arrived from Psychopomp in June 2025.

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Shantell Powell

Shantell Powell is an Indigiqueer swamp hag/elder goth who grew up in an apocalyptic cult on the land and off the grid. She is an alum of the Banff Centre for the Arts, The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University, and the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. Her writing appears in Augur Magazine, Solarpunk Magazine, The Deadlands, […]

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Betsy Aoki

Betsy Aoki is a poet and speculative fiction writer whose work has been published in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, The Deadlands and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She is currently Poetry Editor for the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Aoki’s debut poetry collection about women in technology, Breakpoint, was a National Poetry Series Finalist. Its signature poem, “Slouching like a velvet rope,” […]

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Ash Huang

Ash Huang’s stories are published in Lightspeed, Orion’s Belt, Apparition Literary Magazine, Ecotone, and elsewhere. Her novel-in-progress won the 2022 Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and she is a grateful alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Workshop, the Tin House Winter Workshop and Reading Fellowship, and the Periplus Fellowship. She is a 2025–2026 Brown Handler […]

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L.M. Harris

L.M. Harris is a poet and fiction writer. She grew up in the South but now resides in the Midwest with her cat. She graduated with an M.A. in Latin Literature. She drinks too much coffee, reads, and goes dancing. She is an avid enjoyer of the odd, taboo, and quiet things many overlook. She […]

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Champ Wongsatayanont

Champ is a writer from southern Thailand, who was once ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk and now (unrelatedly) practices Shaolin Kungfu and Muay Thai. He is accepted for Tin House Workshop 2025, Clarion West Workshop 2024 and Faber Academy 2023. Somewhere along there, he had an epiphany that he would punch for the trees. […]

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Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon is the author of eight works of fiction. His most recent book, One of Us (2025,) just happens to take place in a travelling carnival sideshow, so he’s been watching a lot of Tod Browning. He’s on Instagram at dchaon.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon

Rebecca Stone Gordon is an American biocultural archaeologist, horror scholar, fiction writer, and artist. She informed her kindergarten teacher she was going to be an archaeologist and was inconsolable after Scrappy-Doo made his television debut by unrolling a perfectly good mummy. She works on a range of scholarly topics, including nuclear culture and the Cold […]

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Anne Mai Yee Jansen

Anne Mai Yee Jansen is a lifelong lover of weird and wonderful tales. She’s been making up stories inside her head for as long as she can remember and is happy that some of them actually make it out into the real world. When she’s not teaching literature and ethnic studies, she exists on a […]

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