Spencer Nitkey is a writer of the weird, the wonderful, and the (hopefully) beautiful. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and dog, and works as a writer, researcher, and educator. His stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Apex Magazine, Asimov Press, Diabolical Plots, Flash Fiction Online, Lightspeed Magazine, Weird Horror, and many others. […]

Delia Cullity is a dark fantasy and speculative fiction writer and a freelance editor. She graduated from Salem State University with a degree in creative writing and her areas of interest are folklore, dreamscapes, RPGs, and psychology. You can find her wandering in the dusky woods of Cape Cod or procrastinating by watching video essays […]

Reyes Ramirez (he/him) is the 2025-2027 Houston Poet Laureate, and a writer, educator, curator, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022), the poetry collection El Rey of Gold Teeth (2023) from Hub City Press, and Cerveza Songs: Houston, TX (2024), a collection of craft […]

R. P. Sand is a theoretical physicist turned science communicator and educator, and writer of speculative fiction whose words have appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, among other places. Some of her stories have found their way onto the Locus Recommended Reading List. Cats, coffee, cosplay, and colorful socks are a few of her favorite […]

Nigel Faustino is a Filipino American writer living in New York. He placed third in Dream Foundry’s 2024 Emerging Writers contest, and his work has appeared in Lightspeed. He’s also written about television and video games at Into the Spine and Polygon. You can find him on Bluesky at nigelfaustino.bsky.social.

Marika Bailey is an Afro-Caribbean author and illustrator. Her work has previously appeared in FIYAH Magazine, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Apparition Lit. A childhood obsession with mythology led to her current habit of writing stories. She currently lives in the Midwest with her husband, daughter, and the softest cat in the world. You can find her on BlueSky […]

Neon Yang is the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author of the Tensorate series of novellas and one novel (The Genesis of Misery), with another novella (Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame) due out in 2025. Born and raised in Singapore, they currently live in the UK where they spend their days avoiding productivity by playing video […]

Vijayalaxmi Samal is a speculative fiction writer from Delhi, India. Her work has also been published in Flash Fiction Online and A Coup of Owls. She also reads slush for Apex Magazine. You can find her on vijayalaxmisamal.wordpress.com or at @kaunvijaya on Twitter and Bluesky.

Tamara Masri is a writer from Ramallah, Palestine. She studied anthropology at Tufts University and holds a master’s degree in evolutionary biology from Imperial College London. In 2024, she attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Her work has been featured in Hypocrite Reader, 3 Quarks Daily, and +972 Magazine. She can be reached at tamaramasri [at] […]