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Jess Cho

Jess Cho is a Rhysling Award winning writer of short fiction and poetry, whose work has appeared in Fantasy, khōréō, Apparition Lit, Fireside Fiction, Flash Fiction Online and elsewhere. Born in South Korea, they can now be found in the many in-between spaces of New England, or sporadically online at semiwellversed.wordpress.com.

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Raven Jakubowski

Raven Jakubowski is a Dwarf Stars nominated writer whose work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, Star*Line, and Flash Fiction Online, among others. Raven is a member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and an associate member of SFWA. A tailor by trade and writer by vocation, Raven lives in New York City with […]

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R. K. Duncan

R. K. Duncan is a fat queer polyamorous wizard and author of fantasy, horror, and occasional sci-fi. He writes from a few rooms of a venerable West Philadelphia row home, where he dreams of travel and the demise of capitalism. His other full-time job is keeping house for himself and his live-in partner. Before settling […]

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Sofia Ajram

Sofia Ajram (he/she/they) is a metalsmith and literary horror writer who specializes in feverish stories of anomalous architecture and queer pining. He is the editor of Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror. She has also given lectures on contemporary horror films at Monstrum Montreal and serves as a moderator of r/horror on Reddit. […]

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Caroline Hung

Caroline Hung writes sweet and wholesome love stories. Find her at carolinehungauthor.com

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Joe Koch

Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive, Invaginies, and The Couvade, a 2019 Shirley Jackson Award finalist. His short fiction appears in Vastarien, Southwest Review, PseudoPod, Children of the New Flesh, and many others. Find Joe (he/they) at horrorsong.blog.

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Simon Gilbert

Simon Gilbert is an Irish writer. His short story ‘Perfect Water’ won the 2023 Mairtín Crawford Award for Short Story. When not reading or writing, he’s obsessing over music, cooking, or raising houseplants. He lives in Belfast.

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Nicholas Belardes

Nicholas Belardes writes eco-horror, sci-fi and Chicano literature. His obsession with nature and history, blended with a daily birdwatching habit, fills his prose with obscurities from the natural world. He earned his MFA at U.C. Riverside’s Palm Desert Low Residency. The Deading is his debut novel.

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Martins Deep

Martins Deep is a poet, photographer, digital artist, and a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. His works have graced—or are forthcoming—in Magma Poetry, Strange Horizons, Frontier Poetry, Palette Poetry, Fiyah, Lolwe, Tahoma Literary Review, 20:35 Africa, Augur Magazine, and elsewhere. He says hi on X @martinsdeep1.

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Sam W. Pisciotta

Sam W. Pisciotta is an intrepid storyteller hurtling through spacetime on the power of morning coffee and late-night tea. He writes stories for people who want to visit other planets, learn magic from birds, or camp in haunted forests. His M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Colorado trained him to deconstruct various texts; […]

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