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Tania Chen

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 […]

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Lora Senf

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.

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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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