Rafeeat Aliyu is a horror and speculative fiction writer based in Nigeria. Her short stories have been published in Expound Magazine, Omenana, Queer Africa 2 and the AfroSF Anthology of African Science Fiction. Rafeeat is a Clarion West Graduate (2018). You can learn more about her on her website rafeeataliyu.com.

Laura Blackwell’s fiction publications include stories in PseudoPod, Strange California, Hardened Hearts, Syntax & Salt, Tales from the Lake, Vol. 5, and the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology She Walks in Shadows. Once a technology journalist, she was also Shimmer’s final copy editor. Laura was raised in the Midwest by Southern parents. She now lives in […]

Nicole D. Sconiers is an author hailing from the sunny jungle of Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, where she began experimenting with womanist speculative fiction and horror. She is the author of Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage. Her short story “Kim” was published in Sycorax’s […]

Natalia Theodoridou has published over a hundred short stories, most of them dark and queer, in magazines such as Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, and F&SF, among others. He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction and has been a finalist for the Nebula Award in the Novelette and Game […]

A.C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Shimmer, Tor.com, and the Year’s Best Horror Volume 10, among other places. She has two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella forthcoming from Broken Eye Books. In addition to her fiction, she contributes a monthly review column to Apex Magazine, and the Women to Read and […]

British Fantasy Award winning Carole Johnstone is a Scottish writer, currently living in Essex, England. Her short fiction has been published widely, and has been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year and Salt Publishing’s Best British Fantasy series. Her debut short story collection, The Bright Day is Done, and her novella, Cold […]

Micah Dean Hicks is a Calvino Prize-winning author whose writing has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The New York Times, Lightspeed, and Kenyon Review, among others. His story collection Electricity and Other Dreams is available from New American Press. Hicks teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida. His new […]

Grady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He’s the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and the Stoker-Award-winning history of the horror paperback boom of the Seventies and Eighties, Paperbacks from Hell. His latest book is We Sold Our Souls, a paranoia-inflected, heavy metal riff on the Faust legend, […]

Barbara Roden is the World Fantasy Award-winning editor and publisher of Ash-Tree Press, which she co-founded with her husband Christopher in 1994. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1963, and now lives 200 miles northeast of that city, in the heart of cattle ranching country. Since 1994 she has also been joint editor […]

Gary McMahon is the author of nine novels and several short story collections and novellas. His latest book release is the award-nominated novella “The Grieving Stones”. His acclaimed short fiction has been reprinted in various “Year’s Best” volumes. Gary lives with his family in West Yorkshire, where he trains in Shotokan karate and obsesses over […]