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; […]

Bella D. Bonne currently lives in Rhode Island where she is completing her PhD. in the history of art and architecture. This is her first publishing credit.

A queer Latina originally from South Texas, Lisa M. Bradley now lives in Iowa, the traditional homeland of the Iowa, Ponca, and Winnebago tribes, and the Meskwaki Nation, among others. Her work has been featured on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast and in venues such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny. Her […]

Guan Un is an Australian-Chinese writer of speculative fiction based in Sydney. His work has been featured in LeVar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy Vol 2, Strange Horizons and more. A former theology student and luggage salesman, he lives with his family, a dog named after a tiger, and a non-sentient sourdough starter. You can […]

Erin Brown is a black, neurodivergent poet and author of horror, fabulist, and fantasy short fiction. She has been published in FIYAH Magazine, The Deadlands, Midnight and Indigo, the Los Suelos CA Interactive Anthology, 3Elements Literary Revue, the anthology It Was All a Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right, and Fantasy Magazine, […]

RSL (he/they) is a writer and academic of weird, absurd fiction. He is doing an AHRC-funded PhD on the importance of New Weird fiction to mental health in marginalised communities. When he isn’t avoiding his PhD work, he’s writing about his nightmares and playing games. They are also an associate editor with Haven Spec magazine. […]

Richard Leis has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Star*Line, anthologies from House of Zolo and Crone Girls Press, and other publications. He works at the University of Arizona with the HiRISE team, which has had a camera in orbit around Mars since 2006. His website is richardleis.com.

Megan Chee has lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, and is currently based in Singapore. Her speculative short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Nature Futures, Cast of Wonders, and other venues. Her work has been translated into Chinese in Science Fiction World, and will appear in The Year’s Best Fantasy, Vol.3 (Pyr Books). You […]

Sara S. Messenger (sarasmessenger.com) is an East and West Asian writer and Nebula Award winner. She is using this bio, dear reader, to call upon you to join her in refusing and resisting the genocide of the Palestinian people. Wherever you are, throw what sand you can in the gears of the death machine. We are […]

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.