Catherine Wells is the author of numerous novels and short stories of speculative fiction, including the AnLab Award-winning Best Novella of 2015, “Builders of Leaf Houses.” Retired from a 20+ year career in corporate libraries, she enjoys hiking, bicycling, playing bass guitar, and singing with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus. For more about Catherine, her […]

Ada Hoffmann (they/them) is the author of the upcoming sci-fi novel Ignore All Previous Instructions, as well as the Outside space opera trilogy, the collections Resurrections, Monsters in My Mind, and Million-Year Elegies, and dozens of speculative short stories and poems. Ada’s novel-length work is represented by Hannah Bowman. Ada was diagnosed with autism at […]

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.