Nino Cipri is a queer and nonbinary/trans writer, currently at work on an MFA at the University of Kansas. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer. Their writing has been published by […]

Lori Selke lives in Oakland, California. She has been previously published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and The Big Click. She is also the co-editor of the anthology Outlaw Bodies from Future Fire Press. Her stand-alone novella “The XY Conspiracy” is available from Aqueduct Press.

Will Ludwigsen’s stories of weird mystery have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and many other places including his Shirley Jackson Award-nominated collection In Search Of and Others. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his partner, writer Aimee Payne, as well as three cats and a dog who might also be writers […]

Joanna Parypinski is a writer of dark speculative fiction by night and a college English instructor by day. Her work has appeared in The Burning Maiden Vol. 2, Dark Moon Digest, NewMyths.com, and Haunted Nights, an anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton. When she isn’t writing or lecturing on the virtues of good grammar, she […]

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam lives in Texas with her partner and two literarily-named cats: Gimli and Don Quixote. A Nebula Award finalist, she has published fiction in magazines such as Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She also curates the annual Art & Words Show. You can visit her on Twitter @BonnieJoStuffle or through her website: […]

Rios de la Luz is a queer xicana/chapina living in Oregon. She is in love with her bruja/activist communities in L.A., San Antonio, El Paso and Portland. She is the author of The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert via Ladybox Books. Her debut novella, Itzá, is forthcoming via Broken River Books (April 2017). Her […]

Jessica Amanda Salmonson is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, ReaderCon Certificate, and Lambda Award. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in a great many magazines and anthologies including “Year’s Best.” She is the author of three novels in “The Tomoe Gozen Saga,” and a non-fiction reference book, The Encyclopedia of Amazons. She […]

Anya Martin was weaned on Friday Night Frights and, from an early age, has rooted for the monster. Her next published work, the one–act play Passage to the Dreamtime, about a Nazi officer’s prison confrontation with both his American lover and past deeds, will be published as a limited edition chapbook from Dunhams Manor Press […]

V.H. Leslie’s stories have appeared in a range of publications, including Black Static, Interzone and Shadows and Tall Trees, and have been reprinted in a range of ‘Year’s Best’ anthologies. Her short story collection Skein and Bone from Undertow Books was a finalist for both the 2016 British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards for Best […]

Cynthia Ward has published stories in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Shattered Prism, Weird Tales, Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (Prime Books), and other anthologies and magazines. Her stories “Norms” and “#rising” made the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List for 2011 and 2014. She edited the anthologies Lost Trails: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West Volumes One […]