Ana Hurtado is a Clarion West alum and a speculative fiction writer. Her work can be found in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, LeVar Burton Reads, and others. You can find her via anahurtadowrites.com.

Lincoln Michel’s debut novel, The Body Scout (Orbit), was named one of the ten best SFF books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the fifty best science fiction of all time by Esquire. He is also the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and co-editor of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthologies Tiny Crimes (Catapult) and Tiny Nightmares (Catapult). […]

Zoe Kerr is a director and writer based in Dallas and Los Angeles. Between working as a dramaturg for a movement theater company, educating youth on parole, and being the only woman working in a finance office, she writes genre scripts and short stories. Her writing and direction has been recognized by the Sundance Institute, […]

Kevin Figueroa Quiñones, born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Pittsburgh area, worked in the steel industry until he found his home working in student affairs. Kevin is fluent in both English and Spanish, and he is passionate about working with the Latinx community. He is an Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumni with a […]

Ariya Bandy is a writer of speculative poetry and fiction who loves to surround herself with many types of storytelling. Her debut poetry chapbook, Painted Winds, is out from Bottlecap Press. More of her work appears in Stone Circle Review, 100-Foot Crow, The Horror Tree’s Trembling With Fear, anthologies from Querencia Press, and elsewhere. For more things wistful and horrific, find her […]

Leyla Hamedi is a Turkish/Iranian author and educator living in NYC. Through her writing, she explores the role of women in extreme genres within music, film, and TV with pieces that often touch on the macabre and esoteric. You can find her work in Vice, PopMatters, Dread Central, Ghouls Magazine and more.

Katharine Tyndall is a writer based in Berlin. Her short stories have been featured in Fatal Flaw and Broccoli Magazine, among others. When she’s not writing, she can be found in the woods identifying plants and fungi.

Jamie Zaccaria is a wildlife biologist by trade and writer by pleasure. She currently works for an ocean exploration organization and writes fiction in her spare time. She has been published in over a dozen anthologies, online magazines, and her debut short story collection, Lavender Speculation, was released in 2023 by Wildling Press. She lives […]

Tania Chen is a Chinese-Mexican queer writer of living nightmares. Their work has been a finalist for the Ignyte Award, and appeared in Brave New Weird anthology by Tenebrous Press, as well as Unfettered Hexes by Neon Hemlock, Apparition Lit, Strange Horizons, Pleiades Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Longleaf Review, The Dread Machine among others. They are […]

Lora Senf is a writer of dark and twisty stories for all ages. She is the author of The Blight Harbor Books including The Clackity and the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Nighthouse Keeper. She lives in Eastern Washington with her husband, their twins, and one large, orange cat who thinks he’s a person. Their house is probably haunted.