Somto Ihezue is a Nigerian-Igbo writer, filmmaker, and editor. He is Original Fiction Manager at Escape Artists, and an editor with Apex Magazine and Cast of Wonders. He was awarded the 2021 African Youth Network Movement Fiction Prize. A BSFA nominee, Nommo Award-nominee and finalist for the 2022 Afritondo Prize, his works have appeared in Tor’s Africa […]

Andrew Snover’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Tusculum Review, Streetlight Magazine, Wrath-Bearing Tree, and The 33rd Anthology. He received his BA from Penn State in English with Honors and is currently studying to receive his MFA from Drexel University. He is working on his second novel and querying agents for his first. When not teaching writing or tutoring for the […]

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.