J. Anderson Coats has received two Junior Library Guild awards and earned starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, the Horn Book Review, and Shelf Awareness. The Wicked and the Just was one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books of 2012 and won the 2013 Washington State Book Award for Young Adults. Her newest book is R is […]

Woody Dismukes is a Brazilian-American poet, author, and social advocate living in Jackson Heights, Queens. He is a 2018 Clarion West graduate and has taught at University Settlement’s Creative Center. He is the author of The Way the Cowries Fall, a poetry chapbook from the American Poetry Journal, and has had work featured in Lightspeed, […]

Melissa Marr is a former university literature instructor who writes fiction for adults, teens, and children. Her books have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have been bestsellers internationally (Germany, France, Sweden, Australia, et. al.) as well as domestically. She is best known for the Wicked Lovely series for teens, Graveminder for adults, and her debut picture book Bunny Roo, […]

Matthew Baker is the author of Hybrid Creatures, a collection of stories written in hybrid languages, and his fiction has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, One Story, Electric Literature, Conjunctions, and Best of the Net. A recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center […]

Kurt Fawver is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and literature that oozes through the cracks of genre. His short fiction has won a Shirley Jackson Award and been previously published in venues such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Aeons, Weird Tales, Vastarien, Best New Horror, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. […]

Ray Nayler has lived and worked in Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Balkans for nearly two decades. He is a Foreign Service Officer, and previously worked in international educational development, as well as serving in the Peace Corps in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani Turkish, and […]

KT Bryski is a Canadian fantasy author. Their short fiction has appeared in many places, including Apex, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. They have been nominated for the Sunburst, Aurora, and Eugie Foster Memorial Award. When not writing, they enjoy craft beer and choral music.

Matthew Bright is a writer, editor and designer who’s never too sure what order those things come in. His short fiction has appeared in Nightmare’s Queers Destroy Horror, Tor.com, Wilde Stories, Glittership and Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and he is the editor of a number of anthologies, including The Myriad Carnival and Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt. He lives in Manchester, England where he […]

Emily B. Cataneo is a writer and journalist currently based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Nightmare, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Interzone, and was longlisted for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016. She is a 2013 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and a […]