Cressida Blake Roe is a biracial writer of speculative and literary fiction, whose work appears or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Gamut, Kaleidotrope, Factor Four, and elsewhere. Recent stories have been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for the Best Small Fictions. See more at cblakeroe.wordpress.com.

B. Pladek is a writer and literature scholar based in Wisconsin. His fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Slate Future Tense Fiction, PodCastle, and elsewhere. His debut novel Dry Land appeared in fall 2023 and was shortlisted for the Crawford Award. You can find him at bpladek.net or on all socials @bpladek.

Sagan Yee (he/they) is using this bio to amplify the words of Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, who calls us “to join with the revolutionary masses across the globe in fighting for the survival and liberation of Palestinians and all oppressed people. We are bound up with one another. Anywhere and everywhere you are, you can get […]

Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award winner, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, Aurora, and BFSA Award finalist from Changle, Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, The Masters Review, among others. She is the recipient of Odyssey Workshop’s 2022 Fresh Voices Scholarship […]

Regina Kanyu Wang is a writer, researcher, and editor born in Shanghai and currently a doctoral research fellow of the CoFUTURES project in Oslo. She writes science fiction, nonfiction, and academic essays in both Chinese and English. She has been awarded multiple Chinese Nebula Awards and finalisted for Hugo and Locus Awards for her writing, […]

Archita Mittra is a writer, editor and artist from Kolkata, India. Her work is published or forthcoming in Lightspeed, Locus Magazine, Reactor, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. She is an Ignyte Award finalist for Best Critic while her fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart and best of the net prizes. You can find […]