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.

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 […]