David Liss is the author of ten novels, most recently Rebels, the second book in the Randoms trilogy – his first books for younger readers. His previous bestselling books include The Coffee Trader and The Ethical Assassin, both of which are being developed as films, and A Conspiracy of Paper, which is now being developed […]

Giovanni De Feo is a fabulist writer in the tradition of Italo Calvino and Dino Buzzati. His Italian fantasy novels have been described like “a baroque cross over from Terry Gilliam and Miyazaki”. He works as a literature teacher in Genoa where he founded a storytelling association which deals with the conservation of Italian folktales.

David Bowles is a Mexican-American author from south Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Recipient of awards from the American Library Association, Texas Institute of Letters and Texas Associated Press, he has written several titles, among them the Pura Belpré Honor Book The Smoking Mirror (a juvenile fantasy), Lords […]

James Rabb is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and short-story writer with short and feature films in pre- and post-production. His scripts ONE and The Volunteer have reached The Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinals. His work is influenced by his travels and inspired by his dreams.

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 […]