Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard College. His writing has appeared in Audible Originals, The Boston Globe, Strange Horizons, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

Beth Goder works as an archivist, processing the papers of economists, scientists, and other interesting folks. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Escape Pod, Analog, Clarkesworld, Nature, and Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy. You can find her online at bethgoder.com.

Octavia Cade is from New Zealand, and in 2023 will be one of the Ursula Bethell writers in residence at Canterbury University. She has sold close to 70 short stories to markets including Clarkesworld, F&SF, and Asimov’s. Her latest book, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, is a climate horror from Stelliform Press. Octavia attended Clarion […]

John (@Wiswell) is a queer writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He is a Nebula and Locus winner and a Hugo finalist. His fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. His debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest […]

Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in over seventy journals, including F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, and Lightspeed. For more about her work, including her poetry collections, The Gates of Never, Bounded by Eternity, From Voyages Unreturning, Xenoforming, […]

Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe is an Ignyte award winning writer of the dark and fantastical, a poet, and a reluctant mathematician. He has poetry and fiction published or forthcoming in Podcastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Baffling Magazine, Lightspeed, F&SF and elsewhere. When he’s not writing about malfunctioning robots or crazed gods, he can be found doing whatever people […]

Lyndsie Manusos’s work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Apparition Lit, and other publications. She lives in Indianapolis with her family, works as an indie bookseller, and writes for Book Riot. You can read more at lyndsiemanusos.com.

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to The Game of 100 Candles and the short novel Driftwood, and together with Alyc Helms as M.A. Carrick, she is the author of the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy, beginning […]

Tania Fordwalker is so commitment-averse she can’t even decide where to live, and presently splits her time between two small Australian islands: one quirky and subtropical, the other chilly and gothic. She’s usually found either skating or writing (or thinking about skating or writing, which surely counts). Part of the Clarion West class of 2022, […]