David Boyd is a PhD candidate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University. His research focuses on literary communities in twentieth-century Japan. He has translated stories and essays by Uchida Hyakken, Motojiro Kajii, and Hideo Nakai, among others.

Mira Grant was born and raised in Northern California, where she has made a lifelong study of horror movies, horrible viruses, and the inevitable threat of the living dead. Currently, Mira lives in a crumbling farmhouse with an assortment of cats, horror movies, comics, and books about horrible diseases. When not writing, she splits her […]

Elizabeth Hand (b. 1957) is an award-winning author whose science fiction and fantasy novels include the Winterlong series, Waking the Moon, Last Summer at Mars Hill, and Glimmering. Her novels and short stories have won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Shirley Jackson Awards, among others. Hand was born in California and raised in Yonkers and […]

Toh EnJoe holds a Ph.D. in arts and sciences at the University of Tokyo. He writes both literary fiction and science fiction. His writings include “Kore ha pen desu” (“This is a Pen”), and in 2011 he was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for “Dōkeshi no Chō” (“Butterflies of a Harlequin”). His SF novel Self-Reference ENGINE, translated […]

Stephen S. Power is the author of the novel The Dragon Round, and his new novel, Safe at Last, about a traumatized woman trapped in a smart house, is currently under submission. His short fiction has appeared recently in Heathen, MythAxis, Unorthodox Stories, and the anthology The Growers, and will soon appear in Stupefying Stories, […]

Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies. Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and […]

Jilly Dreadful writes feminist science fiction about cyborgs, mermaids, and the strange places where bodies and technology collide. Her first book, Cosmobiological: Stories, a hopepunk collection of short fiction, won the Sundress Publications Prose Manuscript Contest in 2020. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, longlisted by Ellen Datlow for Best Horror of […]

Having sold his first short story to Science Fantasy in 1965, Brian Stableford has been publishing fiction and non-fiction for fifty years. His fiction includes eleven novels and seven short story collections of “tales of the biotech revolution,” exploring the possible social and personal consequences of potential innovations in biotechnology, and a series of metaphysical […]