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 […]

Paul Jessup is a critically acclaimed/award winning author of strange and slippery fiction. With a career spanning over ten years in the field, he’s had works published in so many magazines he’s lost count and three or four books published in the small press, with the latest being Close Your Eyes, available from Apex Books.

Emily Suvada is the author of the upcoming young-adult novel, This Mortal Coil, to be published by Simon Pulse in November 2017. Emily was born in Australia, where she went on to study mathematics and astrophysics. She previously worked as a data scientist, and still spends hours writing algorithms to perform tasks that would only […]

Kristi DeMeester is the author of Beneath, a novel published by Word Horde, and Everything That’s Underneath, a short fiction collection forthcoming this year from Apex Books. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellen Datlow’s The Year’s Best Horror Volume 9, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1 and 3, in addition to publications such as […]

Nibedita Sen is a queer Bengali writer, editor and gamer from Calcutta. A graduate of Clarion West 2015, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Podcastle, Nightmare, Fireside and The Dark. She helps edit Glittership, an LGBTQ SFF podcast, enjoys the company of puns and potatoes, and is nearly always hungry. Hit her up […]

Emma Osborne is a queer fiction writer and poet from Melbourne, Australia. Emma’s writing has appeared in Shock Totem, Apex Magazine, Queers Destroy Science Fiction, Pseudopod, the Review of Australian Fiction and the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. A proud member of Team Arsenic, Emma is a graduate of the 2016 Clarion West Writers […]

Karin was born in South America, grew up in Canada, and worked in the Arctic. Her first novel Warchild won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. Both Warchild (2002) and her third novel Cagebird (2005) were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award. Cagebird won the Prix Aurora Award in 2006 for Best Long-Form […]

Emily B. Cataneo is a writer currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from magazines such as The Dark, Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Lackington’s. She was longlisted for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology in 2016, and is a 2016 graduate of […]

Vincent Michael Zito is the author of the novel The Return Man (available now from international publisher Hodder & Stoughton), a contributor to popular horror anthologies such as the recent Eulogies series, and an active member in the Horror Writers Association. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, daughter, and two magnificent dogs. He writes […]