Will McMahon is a union organizer and writer living in Upstate New York. His fiction has appeared in F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone Digital, and others, while his literary criticism can be found in Strange Horizons, Psychopomp, and the Ancillary Review of Books. His website is will-mcmahon.com. He stands with the Palestinian people against ethnic […]

Angela Liu is a Chinese-American writer/poet based in NYC and Tokyo. She is a two-time Nebula Award and 2025 Astounding Award Finalist. Her work has also been nominated for the Hugo, Locus, Ignyte, and Rhysling Awards. She previously researched mixed reality storytelling at Keio University in Japan. Her stories and poems are published/forthcoming in Clarkesworld, […]

Wen-yi Lee is Clarion West alum from Singapore whose work has appeared in Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Uncanny, among others, and in anthologies such as Year’s Best Fantasy 2 and We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022. She likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts and her forthcoming debut novel The […]

Hamm’s work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, Diabolical Plots, and more. Hamm lives in Los Angeles and writes under the protective blankie of a pseudonym. Hamm can be found on Bluesky @hammonddiehl.bsky.social.

Sunwoo Jeong is a Korean writer living in NYC and Seoul in alternation. She is an academic linguist by day and an author by night. A Clarion alum and a Kundiman fellow, Sunwoo is currently working on a collection of linked short stories and a novel. Her work has appeared in Split Lip, Uncanny Magazine, […]

David Marino is a graduate of the 2023 Clarion Writer’s Workshop and is currently attending Sarah Lawrence in pursuit of an MFA with a focus on speculative fiction. His work has been published in the Seers & Sibyls anthology from Brigids Gate Press, Escape Pod, and Hex Literary. You can follow him on Instagram @davidmarinowrites. […]