Lulu Kadhim is a British writer living in Vancouver. Her game credits include Industries of Titan and Phantom Brigade, and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, khoreo, and Translunar Travelers Lounge. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise XXI and  Odyssey 2019.

Isabel J. Kim is a Korean American speculative fiction author based in New York City. She is a Nebula, Locus, Shirley Jackson Award and BSFA Award winner and her short fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other venues. Find her at isabel.kim.

A prolific writer of short fiction, articles, essays, and poetry, Maria’s work is published or forthcoming in over a dozen publications, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Apex, Apparition, Augur, Fantasy, Fusion Fragment, Kaleidotrope, khōréō, Lightspeed, and Nightmare Magazine. Her debut novel, Liar, Dreamer, Thief, comes out from Grand Central Publishing on January […]

Daniel David Froid is a scholar, educator, and writer of strange stories who lives in Indiana. His scholarly research focuses on devils in eighteenth-century British literature, and his fiction appears in Ligeia, Coffin Bell, and Weird Horror. He teaches at Purdue University.

Izzy Wasserstein is a queer and trans woman who teaches writing and literature at a public university and writes fiction and poetry. She shares a home with her spouse Nora E. Derrington and their animal companions. She’s an enthusiastic member of the 2017 class of Clarion West. Her short story collection All the Hometowns You […]

Tobi Ogundiran is a Nigerian writer whose dark and fantastical tales have appeared in journals such as Lightspeed, Podcastle, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies; and in several Year’s Best anthologies, including The Year’s Best Fantasy, edited by Paula Guran and The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. His work has been nominated […]

A queer, disabled Latina originally from South Texas, Lisa M. Bradley now lives in Iowa. Her work has been featured on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast and in F&SF, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny. Her first collection is The Haunted Girl (Aqueduct Press). Her debut novel is Exile (Rosarium Publishing). Learn more at www.lisambradley.com […]

Leah Cypess is the author of the middle grade series Sisters Ever After, the early chapter book series Miriam’s Magical Creature Files, and the middle grade book Future Me Saves The World (And Ruins My Life). Leah has also written four young adult fantasy novels and numerous works of short fiction. She is a four-time […]

Anya Ow is the author of Ion Curtain, The Firebird’s Tale, and Cradle and Grave, and is an Aurealis Awards finalist. Her short stories have appeared in publications such as Asimov’s, Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, F&SF, and more. Born in Singapore, Anya has a Bachelor of Laws from Melbourne University and a Bachelor of Applied Design […]

David Anaxagoras is the author of The Tower (Recorded Books), a middle-grade horror audiobook about kids who wake in a mysterious penthouse with no memories, no adults, and no way out. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Worlds of Possibility, Factor Four, and elsewhere. He created and co-executive produced Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal […]