Ada Hoffmann’s debut novel, The Outside, was released by Angry Robot Books in June 2019. She is the author of the collection Monster in My Mind and of dozens of speculative stories and poems, as well as the Autistic Book Party #ownvoices review series. Her work has been shortlisted for the 2020 Philip K. Dick […]

Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, California, he got rid of all his stuff in 2011 to live out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding around the world ever since. Look for him at russellnichols.com.

James L. Cambias’s first novel, A Darkling Sea, was published by Tor Books in 2014, followed by Corsair in 2015. His short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Shimmer, Nature, and several anthologies. Mr. Cambias has written for Steve Jackson Games, Hero Games, and other game companies, and is a […]

Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher based in Minneapolis. Her short fiction has been published in journals such as Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny, and honored with a 2020 NEA fellowship, a 2019 World Fantasy Award, and a 2015 O. Henry Prize. She’s an enthusiastic member of the Clarion West class […]

Todd McAulty lives in Chicago. Zircon Border and Barry Simcoe both appeared in his first novel, The Robots of Gotham, published by John Joseph Adams Books in 2018. He is hard at work on the sequel. Under the name John O’Neill, he runs the World Fantasy Award-winning website Black Gate (www.blackgate.com).

Courtney Bird’s stories have appeared in the Fairy Tale Review, the Indiana Review, the Masters Review, and Barrelhouse, among others. She has an MFA from the University of Montana and a BA in art history from Princeton. She is currently working on her first novel.

Martin Cahill is an Ignyte Award-nominated writer living just north of NYC and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop of 2014. His debut book, Audition For The Fox, is now available from Tachyon Publications. He is also the author of Critical Role: Armory of Heroes and a contributing writer to Critical Role: Vox Machina […]