K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author best known for “eco-apocalypse + monsters in dystopian Vancouver” gothic YA Fantasy series Threads of Dreams. Her quietly subversive works exploring the tangled webs of society, environment, and identity through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic can be found in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, […]

Bennett North is a writer, artist, photographer, and gardener living between Providence, RI and Boston, MA. When not doing all those things, Bennett co-edits Translunar Travelers Lounge, a biannual speculative fiction magazine. Bennett’s work has appeared in F&SF, Escape Pod, Podcastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and other markets.

Rebecca F. Kuang is the award-winning, #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages […]

AJ Wentz writes speculative poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in Fantasy, Apex’s Strange Libations, Eye to the Telescope, and elsewhere. When not daydreaming about other worlds, AJ strives to make this one better through her work as an attorney. She lives in Arkansas with her husband, cat, and more books than their house […]

Christopher Rowe’s stories have been published, reprinted, and translated around the world. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, Neukom, Seiun, and other awards. His collection, Telling the Map, is regarded as one of the best of recent years. More recently, Tordotcom published his novella, The Navigating Fox, which […]

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller). Her debut short story collection, Drinking from Graveyard Wells (University Press of Kentucky, Spring 2023), was selected for the 2021 UPK New Poetry & Prose Series. Her novel manuscript in progress was selected by George RR Martin’s team for the Worldbuilder Scholarship to attend Clarion West in […]

Jon Lasser was born in New York City. He lives and writes in Seattle, WA. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Interzone, Analog, Underland Arcana, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Clarion West writers workshop, class of 2016. When not writing or working in the tech industry, Jon watches birds, cooks […]

Modupeoluwa Shelle is a Nigerian writer and blogger, known to a select few by his pen name Kashamadupe. His debut fantasy novella Love & Sprites was featured on Ankara Circle’s Most Outstanding Stories Category in February, 2023, and is currently being wrestled into a graphic novel adaptation. He’s penned a couple of other works that […]

Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her work has won the Shirley Jackson Award and has been nominated for the Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can find her stories in Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, […]