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 […]

Cassandra Khaw is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone. Khaw’s work can be found in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Reactor. Khaw […]

S.P. Miskowski is a multiple Shirley Jackson Award nominee whose stories appear in numerous magazines and anthologies including Supernatural Tales, Black Static, Strange Aeons, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Looming Low, Haunted Nights, Tales from a Talking Board, and Darker Companions: Celebrating 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell. Her four-book series, the Skillute Cycle, is published […]

Summer Fletcher is a member of Codex and SFWA. They have written and/or recorded audio narration for venues like PodCastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Magic: The Gathering. Check out summerfletcher.com for more

Nalo Hopkinson lives in a home filled with books, art supplies, tools, art projects at various stages of unfinished, more books, and brown-skinned mermaids. She has aches, pains, chronic fatigue, and a quirky brain. She has far too much to do, and nowhere near enough time to marathon watch annoying but addictive science fiction TV. […]

Nathan Carson is a musician and writer from Portland, OR. He is widely known as co-founder and drummer of the internationally touring doom metal band Witch Mountain, host of the XRAY FM radio show The Heavy Metal Sewïng Cïrcle, and owner of the boutique music booking agency Nanotear. He has published articles in Rue Morgue, The Oregonian, […]

Robert Jackson Bennett is a two-time award winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, an Edgar Award winner for Best Paperback Original, and is also the 2010 recipient of the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and a Philip K Dick Award Citation of Excellence. City of Stairs was shortlisted for the […]