Alexander is the founder and Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collections, Universal Love and Children of the New World, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a best book of the year by NPR and Electric Literature. […]

Celeste Rita Baker (she/her) is the author of Back, Belly and Side, a book of short stories, some in Standard English and some in Caribbean Dialect. A Virgin Islander currently living in New York City, she has published stories in The Caribbean Writer (“The Dreamprice”), Calabash (“Responding in Kind and Jumbie from Bordeaux”), Abyss & […]

Kristina Ten’s stories appear in McSweeney’s, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Nightmare, Uncanny, and elsewhere. Along with winning the Stephen Dixon Award and the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award for Short Fiction, she has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the […]

WC Dunlap draws her inspiration from the rigidity of a Black Baptist upbringing, and all that entails for a brown skin girl growing up in America. Equally enthralled by the divine and the demonic with a professional background in data & tech, she seeks to bend genres with a unique lens on fantasy, fear, and […]

Kij Johnson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards, among others. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kansas, where she is also the associate director for the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.

Molly Gutman’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, One Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Molly’s working on her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; she earned her MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno. She’s also a fiction editor at Cream City Review. Find her at mollygutman.wordpress.com or say hello on Twitter @mollyegutman.

Jason M. Hough is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dire Earth Cycle and the near-future spy thriller Zero World. He lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife, two young sons, and a dog named Missbuster. When not writing, reading, or playing with his kids, he spends his time exploring virtual reality, which he calls “research.”