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, […]

Varsha Dinesh is a writer and marketing professional from Kerala, India. Their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Strange Horizons, Podcastle, and Lightspeed Magazine. Her short fiction has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and appeared in the Year’s Best Fantasy, A Case of Indian Marvels, and other anthologies. She is currently […]

dave ring is a queer writer of speculative fiction living in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Hidden Ones (2021, Rebel Satori Press) and numerous short stories. He is also the publisher and managing editor of Neon Hemlock Press, and the co-editor of Baffling Magazine. Find him online at dave-ring.com.

Ash Howell lives on the shores of Lake Michigan with another human, two very small humans, and two very lazy dogs. Their work has appeared in Lightspeed, Baffling Magazine, Astrolabe, and elsewhere. You can read more of their work at ash-howell.com or find them at ashhowell.bsky.social

In the long-ago times, Rory’s stories appeared in sff magazines like Asimov’s, F&SF, Amazing, Fantasy Book, and Aboriginal. Several appeared in Best of anthologies, and Baen published one novel, Petrogypsies. Lightspeed‘s editor kindly included the story “Therapeutic Intervention” in his Living Dead 2 anthology. After long hiatus, Rory is emitting fiction again. “Burning Grannies,” in […]

Mitchell Shanklin lives in Seattle and enjoys writing stories with either magic or made-up science or both. He also writes code for companies and sometimes for himself. In his free time he plays video, board, and mind games, reads, hikes, and has rambling philosophical arguments. (No, not all at the same time. Yet.) He is […]

Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrosurreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya with a Literary Arts MFA from Brown. Shingai’s work has been featured in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020, Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021, and Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2020. She has work in or upcoming in Omenana, Fantasy Magazine, […]