Vanessa Fogg dreams of selkies, dragons, and gritty cyberpunk futures from her home in western Michigan. She spent years as a research scientist in molecular cell biology and now works as a freelance medical writer. Her writing has appeared in Lightspeed, Podcastle, The Deadlands, GigaNotoSaurus, Neil Clarke’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Vol […]

Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas is a Mexican immigrant and a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2019. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Nightmare, the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology She Walks in Shadows, and elsewhere. She can be found online at nellygeraldine.com and on Twitter as @kitsune_ng.

Everdeen Mason is a journalist, editor and critic with bylines in The Washington Post, Refinery29, and The New York Times. She currently serves as the editorial director of New York Times Games, overseeing games such as Wordle, the Crossword and Spelling Bee. She served as the science fiction and fantasy columnist for three years, and […]

Timi Odueso’s works have been featured in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Nobrow Press, Lolwe TSSF, Punocracy, and more. He is presently a tech journalist at TechCabal where he writes one of the top tech newsletters in Africa. He’s also served in various roles at literary and art organizations all over Africa.

Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko is a Slovenian-born writer and translator. He grew up in Slovenia, Ireland, Australia, and the UK, and currently resides just outside Portland, Maine. He understands that his name is a bit confusing and would like you to know that “Drnovšek Zorko” is the surname. He attended Clarion West in 2019, and […]

Aimee Ogden is an American werewolf in the Netherlands. Her short fiction has previously appeared in publications such as Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and Psychopomp, including her Nebula Award Finalist novelette “What Any Dead Thing Wants.” She is also the author of five novellas, the latest of which, Starstruck, arrived from Psychopomp in June 2025.

Lincoln Michel’s debut novel, The Body Scout (Orbit), was named one of the ten best SFF books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the fifty best science fiction of all time by Esquire. He is also the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and the co-editor of […]

R J Theodore is an author, graphic designer, podcaster, and all-around collector of creative endeavors and hobbies. She enjoys writing about magic-infused technologies, first contact events, and bioluminescing landscapes. Sometimes in a single work. Her love of SFF storytelling developed through grabbing for anything-and-everything “unicorn” as a child, but she was subverted by tales of […]

Thomas Ha is a former attorney turned stay-at-home father who enjoys writing speculative fiction during the rare moments when all of his kids are napping at the same time. Thomas grew up in Honolulu and, after a decade plus of living in the northeast, now resides in Los Angeles.