Stephanie Malia Morris is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West Writers Workshop, recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Award, and a 2019 Kimbilio Fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in FIYAH, Apex Magazine, Nightmare, and Pseudopod. She has narrated short fiction for the Escape Artists podcasts, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. You can find her online at stephaniemaliamorris.com or on […]

Eden Royce is a Freshwater Geechee from Charleston, South Carolina, now living in the Garden of England. Her work can be found in various print and online publications including: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fiyah Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, and PodCastle. She’s also a contributor to the Bram Stoker Award finalist anthology Sycorax’s […]

L.D. Lewis is an editor, publisher, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated writer of speculative fiction. She serves as a founding creator and Project Manager for the World Fantasy and Hugo Award-winning FIYAH Literary Magazine. She also serves as the founding Director of FIYAHCON, Researcher for the (also award-winning) LeVar Burton Reads podcast, and pays the bills […]

Aaron Duran is a writer in Portland, OR. He’s the founder and co-host of the popular podcast, Geek in the City Radio. Aaron is an author of multiple comic books for Image Comics and Acclaim Entertainment, including his creator-owned series The Pirates of Kadath, as well as the Forgotten Tyrs young adult horror series of […]

Emet North is a writer currently living in Baltimore, MD. They teach creative writing at Johns Hopkins University where they received their MFA. They were a member of the Clarion Workshop class of 2019, where they were awarded a Delany-Kushner-Sherman The Future is Queer scholarship. Prior to pursuing their MFA, they worked as a physicist, […]

Julianna Baggott is the author of over a dozen novels, including Pure and The Seventh Book of Wonders, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her work is in development for film/TV with options at Warner Brothers, Disney+, and Lionsgate. She has a forthcoming story collection, I’d Really Prefer Not to be Here […]

Matthew Tolbert lives with his parents and cat in Northeast Kansas. He attends elementary school and practices the ninja arts in his spare time.  When he grows up, he wants to make games and be a scientist–probably a NASA engineer.

P H Lee lives on top of an old walnut tree, past a thicket of roses, down a dead end street at the edge of town. Their work has appeared in many venues including Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Uncanny Magazine. From time to time, they microwave and eat a frozen burrito at two in the morning, […]

Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Divergent series (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection), the Carve the Mark duology (Carve the Mark, The Fates Divide), The End and Other Beginnings collection of short fiction, and many short stories and essays. Her debut novel for adults, Chosen Ones, […]