Megan Kiekel Anderson (she/her) is a nerdy queer neurodivergent dark fiction writer. Her work can be found or is upcoming in such places as Flame Tree Press, The Arcanist, Dark Recesses Press, and Monstrous Books. She lives in Kansas City with her chaotic family including too many cats, chickens, and foster kittens. You can find […]

Kelsea Yu is a Taiwanese Chinese American writer who is eternally enthusiastic about sharks and appreciates a good ghost story. She has over a dozen short stories and essays published in or forthcoming from Clarkesworld, Fantasy, PseudoPod, and elsewhere. Her novella, Bound Feet, was a Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and her debut novel, It’s Only […]

Author of Corporate Body and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning story “Not the Man I Married,” R.A. Busby spends her spare time running in the desert with her dog and finding weird things to write about.

TJ Price’s corporeal being is currently located in Raleigh, NC, with his handsome partner of many years, but his ghosts live in north-eastern Connecticut, southern Maine, and north Brooklyn. His work has been published in Coffin Bell Journal, The Bear Creek Gazette, and Pidgeonholes; in addition, he has a novelette (The Disappearance of Tom Nero) […]

Lynette S. Hoag is a writer and lawyer. She writes horror, fantasy and romantic fantasy. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and Order of Respectable Quill Drivers, a critique group formed by Mary Robinette Kowal for women of color. Her writing has appeared in SLAY! Stories of Vampire Noire, the Alphabet […]

Marisca Pichette writes about queerness, defiance, and monsters. You can find her work in Strange Horizons, Fireside Magazine, Apparition Lit, Uncharted Magazine, PseudoPod, and PodCastle, and forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her speculative poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, will debut from Android Press in Spring 2023.

Ashlee Lhamon is a Clarion alum with an extensive lunchbox collection and a tuxedo cat named Gumshoe. She’ll make a website one of these days, but in the meantime, you can find her other work at Cotton Xenomorph, Tales to Terrify, MetaStellar, Grist, Hunger Mountain, and Every Day Fiction.

Zachary Gillan (he/him) is a critic of weird fiction who resides in Durham, North Carolina. He’s an editor at Ancillary Review of Books, the book reviewer for Seize the Press, and has criticism in or forthcoming from Strange Horizons, Broken Antler, IZ Digital, and Nightmare Magazine, among others. More of his work can be found […]

Mayookh Barua (s/he/they) is a Los Angeles-based writer from India who is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Southern California. His work explores sexuality, art, mythology and family through a queer South-Asian voice. A 2023 Roots.Wounds.Words Non-Fiction fellow, his works have appeared in The Audacity by Roxane Gay, Espace Art Actuel, The […]