J.B. Kish is a weird fiction and horror author living in the Pacific Northwest. He is the co-chair of the Horror Writer’s Association Oregon Chapter, and his writing has been featured in The Cozy Cosmic (Underland Press), Cosmic Horror Monthly, Metaphorosis Magazine’s Best of ’22, and others. Additionally, he is a writing milestone book coach […]

Josh Pearce has published more than 200 stories, reviews, and poems in a wide variety of magazines, including Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Cast of Wonders, Clarkesworld, Diabolical Plots, Kaleidotrope, Locus, Nature, On Spec, Weird Horror, and elsewhere. Find more of his writing at fictionaljosh.com.

Samir Sirk Morató is a scientist, artist, and flesh heap. Some of their published and forthcoming work can be found in Strange Horizons, X-R-A-Y, ergot., Cosmic Horror Monthly, and khōréō. They are on Bluesky and Instagram @spicycloaca.

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.