A Humphrey Lanham is a polymath, project manager, and publicist. Their fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Zooscape. They are the founding Poetry Editor of Plott Hound Magazine, an interviewer for Lightspeed Magazine, an Odyssey Writing Workshop alum, and former chair of the Wordos Workshop. They live in the […]

Erik Grove is a writer, writing teacher, editor, and dog wrangler living and doing things in Portland, OR. You can find his short fiction in places like Nightmare Magazine, Escape Pod, numerous anthologies, and carved into the bark of gnarled trees in the haunted woods behind your house. You can find links to stories, information […]

Sam W. Pisciotta is an intrepid storyteller hurtling through spacetime on the power of morning coffee and late-night tea. His M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Colorado trained him to deconstruct various texts; living life taught him how to put them back together. Sam is a graduate of the Odyssey writing program. Find […]

Kel Coleman is an Ignyte-nominated author whose fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in FIYAH, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Solarpunk Magazine, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 and 2024, and others. Kel is a Marylander at heart, but they currently live in Pennsylvania with their family, a stuffed dragon named Pen, and a collection […]

C.Z. Tacks is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. They grew up inland during back-to-back “once-in-a-lifetime” droughts, then moved to the coast just in time for consecutive “once-in-a-century” floods. Currently, Tacks lives on unceded Ngunnawal land, where all the largest bodies of water are man-made. Tacks’ non-writing work has taken them to an abattoir, a […]

Jake Stein lives in Portland, Oregon, where he concocts strange tales on his laptop and spends too much time at Powell’s Books. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Lightspeed Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and lots of other awesome publications. You can occasionally find him fumbling around bluesky (jakeiswriting.bsky.social), or check out storiesbystein.wordpress.com.

V.M. Ayala (she/they) is a queer disabled biracial Mexican American sci-fi/fantasy writer. She loves dragons, space, giant robots, and their partner. Their work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, and more. She is also a streamer (ask them about indie games) and TTRPG actual play […]

Fatima Taqvi is a short story writer of horror and fantasy hailing from Karachi, Pakistan, and currently living in London. She has work appearing in Strange Horizons, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, The Dark, and other places. She can be contacted on her website fatimataqvi.com.

Meghan McCarron’s short fiction has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and reprinted in multiple Year’s Best anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles.

Spencer Nitkey is a writer of the weird, the wonderful, and the (hopefully) beautiful. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and dog, and works as a writer, researcher, and educator. His stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Apex Magazine, Asimov Press, Diabolical Plots, Flash Fiction Online, Lightspeed Magazine, Weird Horror, and many others. […]