Nadine Tomlinson is a Jamaican writer and speculative storyteller. Her short fiction and poetry explore themes that include the natural environment, and African and contemporary folklore in Jamaican culture. Her writings are published in adda, The Gold Anthology, and elsewhere.

Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction and poetry, along with the occasional piece of interactive fiction. His fiction has appeared in Nature, Lightspeed, and Flash Fiction Online, among other places, and his poetry has appeared in Fantasy, Asimov’s, and numerous haiku magazines. Stewart was born in England, has lived […]

Winston Turnage writes fiction and essays from Seattle. His writing has appeared in Meridian Magazine and here in Lightspeed. You can follow his future publications and subscribe to his essays at his website, inarticulate.xyz.

Amy Johnson’s stories and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Diabolical Plots, Escape Pod, Fantasy Magazine, and Lightspeed, among others. An author, anthologist, and scholar, she edited the Drones & Dreams and Stories from (Un)Identified Worlds anthologies and runs workshops using speculative techniques to explore the societal impacts of technology and social change. Amy […]

Jae Steinbacher is a speculative fiction writer and the workshop manager for the Clarion West Writers Workshop. They have been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Baffling Magazine, and elsewhere. Jae holds an MFA from North Carolina State University and is a graduate of Clarion West. They live on […]

Sloane Leong is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, editor, and labor organizer of mixed indigenous ancestries. Through her work, she engages with visceral futurities and fantasies through a radical, kaleidoscopic lens. She is the creator of several graphic novels: From Under Mountains, Prism Stalker, A Map to the Sun, and Graveneye. Her fiction has appeared in […]

Alexandra Manglis is a Cypriot writer and editor currently living in New England. Her work has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and published in places like Strange Horizons, Passages North, and Adda. She served as co-editor of the anthology 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth Century Archive (Milkweed) and as a senior […]

Suzan Palumbo is a Nebula and WSFA Small Press Award finalist, active member of the HWA, and Co-Administrator of the Ignyte Awards. Her debut dark fantasy/horror short story collection Skin Thief: Stories will be published by Neon Hemlock in Fall 2023. Her writing has been published by or is forth coming in Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy […]