Lilia Zhang (she/her) is a storyteller and lover of all things animal- and brain-related. She has a degree in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University and a tendency to write character backstories longer than the actual stories. She likes to write about animals, women, the earth, and the burdens bequeathed to all of the above. […]

Kyle is a writer, game designer, and full-time complainer from the Philippines. Her nonfiction has appeared in publications like Clarkesworld, Interstellar Flight Press, Strange Horizons, and Into the Spine. Her games include the IGDN Honorable Mention MORIAH, Primadonna from PlusOneEXP, and Forsaken from Afterthought Committee. You can find her on Bluesky at @PercyPropa, or find […]

Ian Li (he/him) is a Chinese-Canadian writer, poet, economist, and developer, who started writing a little over a year ago after a lifetime of believing he could never be creative. In addition to writing, he also enjoys spreadsheets, data and statistics, and brain teasers. Find his work published in Orion’s Belt, Small Wonders, and Solarpunk Magazine, among other […]

Cynthia Gómez (she/her) is a writer and researcher. Her stories have appeared in The Acentos Review, Strange Horizons, and collections including Mine: An Anthology of Body Horror; 206-Word Stories; and Antifa Splatterpunk. Her novelette “The Shivering World,” was released in November 2022 as part of Split Scream Volume Two, from Dread Stone Press. She is […]

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, […]