Thomas Ha is a former attorney turned stay-at-home father who enjoys writing speculative fiction during the rare moments when all of his kids are napping at the same time. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles.

Hailing from a haunted seaside town in Northeastern Massachusetts, Emmett Nahil is the author of From the Belly (Tenebrous Press, 2024) and Let Me Out (Oni Press, 2023), and a writer of horror and speculative fiction centering marginalized perspectives. His writing has been featured in The Book of Queer Saints, Volume II, Laura Kate Dale’s […]

Bruce McAllister’s short fiction has appeared over the years in science fiction, fantasy and horror publications and “Year’s Best” volumes; and has won or been short-listed for awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nebula, the Hugo, the Shirley Jackson Award and others.   His most recent novel is The Village Sang to the […]

Victor Forna is a Sierra Leonean writer based in his country’s capital, Freetown. He currently works as an environmentalist. His short fiction and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in homes such as Lolwe, Fantasy Magazine, PodCastle, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize Writing Workshop. You can find him on Twitter @vforna12.

Haralambi Markov is a Bulgarian fiction writer, reviewer & editor with a background in content creation, who currently works as a freelance writer. He was the first ever Bulgarian to be accepted to attend the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in 2014. His short story “The Language of Knives” was long-listed for the Nebula award for Best […]

Connor Lee is a horror writer from Houston, Texas. His work has appeared in Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, Voices, and on various YouTube narration channels. Outside of reading and writing he enjoys working out, watching horror movies, and going on long walks. He is a senior at Midwestern State University and will be graduating […]

John R. Turner taught at Scott Community College for 38 years. He began live theater there and founded the school literary magazine, editing it for three decades. He has also served as associate poetry editor of STIRRING on line since it began in 1999. Twenty-three of his plays have been produced in the Quad Cities. […]

Sonora Taylor is the author of seven books, including Little Paranoias: Stories, Without Condition, and Seeing Things. Her short stories have been published by Tenebrous Press, Rooster Republic Press, Cemetery Gates Media, Kandisha Press, Ghost Orchid Press, and others. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. Her latest release, Recreational Panic: Stories, […]

Mark Galarrita is a writer and playwright. His work can be found in McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, Split Lip, and elsewhere. His play, Manny Pacquiao Punches the World But the Earth Doesn’t Even Flinch, was a 2020 Arts in the Armed Forces contest finalist (judge: David Henry Hwang). He is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion […]

Corey Farrenkopf is a Cape Cod-based writer and librarian. His work has been published in/is forthcoming from The Deadlands, Tiny Nightmares, Bourbon Penn, Flash Fiction Online, SmokeLong Quarterly, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and elsewhere. His debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, will be published by JournalStone in April of 2024. Follow him on Twitter at @CoreyFarrenkopf, on […]