Victor Forna is a Sierra Leonean writer based in his country’s capital, Freetown. He currently works as an environmentalist. His short fiction and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in homes such as Lolwe, Fantasy Magazine, PodCastle, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize Writing Workshop. You can find […]

N.R. Lambert (she/her) is a speculative fiction author from New York City. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in several publications and anthologies, including Vastarien, The Modern Deity’s Guide to Surviving Humanity, and Don’t Turn Out the Lights. She’s also written articles and essays for TIME, LIFE, and Entertainment Weekly. She was a 2019 […]

James Van Pelt has been selling short fiction to many of the major venues since 1989. Recently he retired from teaching high school English after thirty-seven years in the classroom. He has been a finalist for the Nebula, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, Locus Awards, and Analog and Asimov’s reader’s choice awards. Years and years […]

Tina S. Zhu writes about fairytales, pop culture, and the Gothic from New York. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside, Reactor, and The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (Neon Hemlock Press, 2024), among other places. She has received support from Lambda Literary and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Find her at tinaszhu.com.

Dani Atkinson is a writer and artist in Alberta, Canada. She’s bounced around doing day jobs ranging from English teacher in Japan to ice cream parlour clerk in the Canadian rockies. Between day jobs she writes stories, comics, plays, poetry, and games. After writing a story, Dani Atkinson prints out the first page, folds it […]

Oyedotun Damilola Muees is a Nigerian writer of contemporary and speculative fiction, and an associate member of SFWA and ASFS. His short story, “All We Have Left is Ourselves,” was a winner of the 2022 PEN Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers, and a winner in the 2022 Utopia Awards in the short story […]

Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She debuted as a writer in her native Sweden, and currently lives just outside Vancouver with a husband, two children, several birds, a snake, and a very large black dog. Her latest short story collection, Wolves & Girls, is out now from Brain Jar […]

Natalia Theodoridou has published over a hundred short stories, most of them dark and queer, in magazines such as Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nightmare, and F&SF, among others. He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction and is a finalist for the 2022 Nebula Award in the Novelette and Game […]

Jordan Kurella is a trans and disabled author who has lived all over the world (including Moscow and Manhattan). In his past lives, he was a photographer, radio DJ, and social worker. His work has been nominated for the Nebula Award, long listed for the British Science Fantasy Award, and taught at Iowa State University. […]

Megan Chee is a Singaporean author who has lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, and is currently based in Singapore. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed Magazine, and other venues. Her work has been translated into Chinese in Science Fiction World, and has been featured […]