Jennifer Hudak’s short fiction can be found in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, Strange Horizons, The Sunday Morning Transport, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She is Nebula Award Finalist and a graduate of the Viable Paradise writers workshop. Originally from Boston, she now lives in Upstate New […]

Sara S. Messenger (sarasmessenger.com) is an East and West Asian writer and Nebula Award co-winner. Her stories have been published in Fantasy, Nightmare, and Lightspeed, among others. 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 […]

Rukman Ragas writes about earnest contradictions and temporary obsessions. A Tamil writer of speculative fiction from Sri Lanka, Rukman’s work has previously appeared in Apex, khoreo, the Baltimore Review, and others. When not wrangling his novel into shape, Rukman can be found consuming an unhealthy amount of historical media or playing DnD.

Audrey Zhou is a Chinese American writer from North Carolina. Her short fiction is published/forthcoming in Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, and Fusion Fragment, among others. She is a 2025 graduate of the Clarion workshop. When not writing, she can be found taking long walks and curating oddly specific playlists of music. Read more at audreyzhouwrites.com or […]

Phoenix Alexander (he/him) is a queer, Greek-Cypriot author and curator of SF/F and horror. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Vector: the Journal of the British Science Fiction Association, and has published over 30 short stories and articles. He holds a Ph.D. in English and African American Studies from Yale University, and a BA and MA […]

Corey Jae White is the author of Repo Virtual and The VoidWitch Saga – Killing Gravity, Void Black Shadow, and Static Ruin. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Interzone, and Analog, as well as a number of sci-fi anthologies. Find her online at coreyjwhite.com.

Mx Maddison Stoff (she/her) is a neurodivergent non-binary essayist, independent musician and author from Melbourne, Australia, writing unapologetically leftist, feminist, & queer fiction set in a continuous universe which blurs the line between experimental literature & pulp sci-fi. Her short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways, Inner Worlds, and anthologies including Avast! […]

M.R. Robinson is a scholar of Renaissance literature…but when she isn’t thinking about sonnets, she’s probably writing or reading speculative fiction. A graduate of Viable Paradise and Clarion West, her work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Haven Spec, and We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024, among other publications. She’s also one of […]

Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts. She has published more than three hundred pieces of short fiction and poetry, appearing in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, The Deadlands, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov’s, Nightmare Magazine, and many others. Her speculative poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your […]

Kehkashan is a Pakistani writer and artist based in Jeddah. Her work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and several anthologies. She is a slush reader at Clarkesworld and editor-in-chief at Tasavvur Magazine, and a graduate of Clarion West 2025. She is currently designing the narrative for Pakistan’s first historical fantasy video game […]