Seth Fried is the author of the novel The Municipalists (forthcoming from Penguin Books) and the short story collection The Great Frustration (Soft Skull Press). His stories have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Vice, and many others.

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is a queer non-binary writer who lives in Minnesota and is a Nebula Awards finalist. Their stories have appeared in Lightspeed, Fireside, Apex, Uncanny, Nightmare,  and several Year’s Best anthologies. You can find Merc on Twitter @Merc_Rustad or their website: mercfennwolfmoor.com. Their debut short story collection, So You Want To Be A […]

Trent Hergenrader is an English professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he spends much of this time using role-playing games to teach aspects of fiction writing and worldbuilding. He also teaches courses on fantasy and science fiction in popular culture, such as Game of Thrones in Media, Tolkien in Print and on Screen […]

Stephanie Malia Morris is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop, recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Award, and a 2019 Kimbilio Fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in FIYAH, Pseudopod, Nightmare, Apex Magazine, and Lightspeed. She has narrated short fiction for the Escape Artists podcasts, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. You can find her […]

M. Rickert has published three short story collections: Map of Dreams, Holiday, and You Have Never Been Here. Her stories have been collected in numerous anthologies including American Fantastic Tales (Library of America), The Big Book of Ghost Stories (Vintage), Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror (Tachyon) and Shadows and Tall Trees 7 (Undertow […]

Stephen Bacon’s short fiction has been published in Black Static, Cemetery Dance, Shadows & Tall Trees, Postscripts, and Crimewave. Several of his stories have been selected for Best Horror of the Year. His debut collection, Peel Back the Sky, was published in 2012 by Gray Friar Press and was nominated for a British Fantasy award. […]

Douglas Wynne wrote his first dark fantasy novel at age fifteen but has never found the courage to take it down from the attic and read it. After a long detour through music school, rock bands, and recording studios, he came full circle back to fiction writing and is recently the author of five novels: […]

Theodore McCombs is a writer in Denver and a 2017 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. His fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Guernica, and Shenandoah, and his essays in Lit Hub and Electric Literature, among others. He is a co-editor and regular contributor at the speculative literary blog Fiction […]

Laura Anne Gilman is the Nebula and Endeavor award-nominated author of  the best-selling Devil’s West series (Silver On the Road, The Cold Eye, and the forthcoming Red Waters Rising), as well as the short story collection Darkly Human, the 10-book, 4 novella Cosa Nostradamus urban fantasy series, and the Vineart War trilogy.  Her recent short fiction has sold […]