Taiyo Fujii was born in Amami Oshima Island—that is, between Kyushu and Okinawa. He has worked in stage design, desktop publishing, exhibition graphic design, and software development. In 2012, Fujii self-published Gene Mapper serially in a digital format of his own design, and it became Amazon.co.jp’s number one Kindle bestseller of that year. The novel was […]

Emil Ostrovski is the twenty-five year old author of a young adult novel, The Paradox of Vertical Flight, which has been published in the U.S., Spain, and Germany, and nominated for The German Youth Literature Award.  His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, The New Orleans Review, Atticus Review, Word Riot, and YARN.  He […]

Caleb JM Galey is obsessed with stories in all their many forms. Writing, playing, reading, watching, anything he can immerse himself in. He lives in Western Colorado with two gray cats, enjoying his day job as a dog groomer while indulging in fantasy in his off hours. You can find him playing D&D with friends, […]

RJ Edwards is a writer and library wizard. They are the curator of the LGBTQ literature blog Queer Book Club, co-host of the year-round holiday music podcast HARK, and creator of Riot Nrrd, a webcomic at the crossroads of geek culture, social justice, and queer romance. RJ currently resides in Vancouver, BC with their partner […]

Amber Neko Meador is an author, filmmaker, digital artist, and podcast host of Transiton Transmission. Amber grew up in the fundamentally conservative SouthEast, deep in the Bible Belt. A devotee of George Lucas, the Wachowskis, Masamune Shirow, Robert Heinlein, cyberpunk, and science fiction, Amber has made several independently produced films, including Night of the Living […]

AMJ Hudson is a senior undergraduate student at Columbus State University preparing to dive into a creative nonfiction thesis. She won first place at the 2015 Southern Literary Festival for “Motherland,” a piece that showcases her interest in dissecting identity and familial ties, and her poetry has been incorporated into the Memory’s Cabinets exhibit in the […]