Rick Wilber was a modestly skilled freshman quarterback at the University of Minnesota and is the parent of a remarkable Down syndrome son for whom he cheered at many Special Olympics events and from whom he’s learned a great deal about life. Rick’s new short-story collection, Rambunctious and Other Stories (WordFire Press, forthcoming) features some […]

Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work is rooted in eroticism, speculative events, women’s perspectives, and artistic freedom. She has been widely published and anthologized in such publications as the Dark Matter, Mojo: Conjure Stories, and Colonize This! anthologies, as well as Essence, Utne Reader, and Ms. magazines. […]

Jenny Rae Rappaport has been published in Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod, and Daily Science Fiction, among other magazines. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and holds a BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. In the past, she has worked as a literary agent, a marine sciences field guide, and spent […]

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, and critical futurist. He is the author of Absence: A Novel (coming May 5, 2026 from Soho Press) and Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (Fordham University Press 2022), as well as many short stories appearing in publications such as Lightspeed, Analog, […]

J.R. Dawson (she/they) is the Golden Crown award-winning author of The First Bright Thing. Their short story, “Six People to Revise You,” is a 2026 Nebula finalist. She has other short work in places such as F&SF, Uncanny, and Reactor. Dawson currently lives on Dakota land in Minnesota with her loving wife. She teaches at […]

Nibedita Sen is a queer Bengali writer, editor and gamer from Calcutta. A graduate of Clarion West 2015, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Podcastle, Nightmare, Fireside and The Dark. She helps edit Glittership, an LGBTQ SFF podcast, enjoys the company of puns and potatoes, and is nearly always hungry. Hit her up […]

Ellen Kushner’s novel Swordspoint introduced readers to the city to which she has returned in two more novels, a growing handful of short stories and the collaborative serial prequel, Tremontaine (SerialBox.com). A longtime performer and public radio host, she narrated all three as audiobooks for Neil Gaiman Presents, winning an Audie Award for Swordspoint. Her […]

Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American speculative fiction writer. After having lived in Mexico, Scotland, Egypt, Turkey, and New York City, among other places, she has settled in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and writes fiction inspired by her research and her heritage. Her novel The Hacienda […]