Ashlee Lhamon lives in the Bay Area with an impressive lunchbox collection, a tuxedo cat named Gumshoe, and a brand new tiny human. Her other work appears in Nightmare, Hunger Mountain, MetaStellar, Salamander Magazine, Radon Journal, and more. Find her at ashleelhamon.com.

Patrick Hurley has had fiction published in dozens of markets, including Factor Four, Abyss & Apex, Galaxy’s Edge, and New Myths. A graduate of the Taos Toolbox Writer’s Workshop, Patrick lives in Seattle where he works for Paizo Inc. as their Managing Editor. To read more of Patrick’s stories, check out patrickhurleywrites.com.

P.A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian speculative fiction writer. A graduate of the Odyssey workshop, her stories have been published or are forthcoming in over fifty magazines and anthologies, including Lightspeed, Apex, and three “Best of” anthologies. In addition to becoming the first Chilean Nebula finalist in 2024, Cornell has been a finalist for the Aurora […]

Ash Huang’s stories are published in Orion’s Belt, Apparition Literary Magazine, Ecotone, and elsewhere. Her novel-in-progress won the 2022 Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and she is a grateful alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Workshop, the Tin House Winter Workshop, and the Periplus Fellowship. Find her at ashsmash.com.

Aimee Picchi is a journalist by day and Nebula-nominated science fiction and fantasy writer by night. Her short fiction has been published in Nightmare, Apex, The Deadlands, and Podcastle, among other fine publications. She’s a former classical musician who graduated from Juilliard Pre-College and the Eastman School of Music. She lives in Burlington, Vermont with […]

Adelehin Ijasan is a Nigerian writer living in Scotland. He also lives a double life as an eye surgeon. His short stories have appeared in Fiyah, Interzone’s IZ Digital, Omenana, Mothersound Anthology, and other venues. He has been nominated for the Commonwealth short story award, longlisted for the Nommos and BSFA Awards, and has made […]

Seoung is a Koream librarian who lives on the lands of the Council of the Three Fires near Chicago. He has published work with Strange Horizons, Cast of Wonders, and more. Find him on Twitter @chimneyfalls or haunting the aisles of his local craft stores.

Joel is a writer, filmmaker, and comedian who looks like the first character you’d get rid of in the game Guess Who. He recently received a WGC award for his short sci-fi film “Let Me In,” and has written for television shows such as This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Inspector Gadget, Open Season, Dino Dex, […]

Shanna Germain is an award-winning writer, editor, and game designer and the co-founder of Monte Cook Games. Over the years, she’s published hundreds of poems, essays, short stories, novellas, novels, games, articles and more. She’s also taught classes in writing, publishing, media, and photography at a wide variety of places. Her recent works include Predation, […]