Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, California, he got rid of all his stuff in 2011 to live out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding around the world ever since. Look for him at russellnichols.com.

James L. Cambias’s first novel, A Darkling Sea, was published by Tor Books in 2014, followed by Corsair in 2015. His short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Shimmer, Nature, and several anthologies. Mr. Cambias has written for Steve Jackson Games, Hero Games, and other game companies, and is a […]

Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize. She’s an enthusiastic member of the Clarion West class […]

Todd McAulty lives in Chicago. Zircon Border and Barry Simcoe both appeared in his first novel, The Robots of Gotham, published by John Joseph Adams Books in 2018. He is hard at work on the sequel. Under the name John O’Neill, he runs the World Fantasy Award-winning website Black Gate (www.blackgate.com).

Courtney Bird’s stories have appeared in the Fairy Tale Review, the Indiana Review, the Masters Review, and Barrelhouse, among others. She has an MFA from the University of Montana and a BA in art history from Princeton. She is currently working on her first novel.

Martin Cahill is an Ignyte Award-nominated writer living just north of NYC and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop of 2014. His debut book, Audition For The Fox, is now available from Tachyon Publications. He is also the author of Critical Role: Armory of Heroes and a contributing writer to Critical Role: Vox Machina […]

Born and raised in India, Rati Mehrotra now lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the science fantasy novels Markswoman (2018) and Mahimata (2019) published by Harper Voyager and the YA fantasy novel Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove (2022) published by Wednesday Books. Her short fiction has been […]

Kyle Muntz is the author of Scary People (Eraserhead Press, 2015) and Green Lights (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014). His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Fiction International, Mayday, and elsewhere in print and online. In 2016, he received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Notre Dame, where he was awarded the Spark’s Prize […]

G.V. Anderson is a British writer whose professional debut, “Das Steingeschöpf”, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 2017. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Interzone. She is currently working on her first novel and tweets regularly about it at @luna_luminarium.