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 […]

Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of nine books: four novels—Incarnate, Breaker, Disintegration, and Transubstantiate; four collections—Spontaneous Human Combustion, Tribulations, Staring Into the Abyss, and Herniated Roots; and one novella of The Soul Standard. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker (twice), Shirley Jackson, Thriller, and Audie awards. His over 175 stories in print […]

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is […]

S.L. Harris is a writer, teacher, and archaeologist who can often be found digging in gardens, libraries, tea cabinets, and ancient houses. Originally from West Virginia, he currently lives in the Midwest with his wife, two children, and many books.

Osahon Ize-Iyamu is a Nigerian writer of speculative fiction. A graduate of the Alpha Writers Workshop, he has been published in magazines like Clarkesworld, Nightmare, The Rumpus, and Strange Horizons. You can find him online @osahon4545.

Shaoni C. White writes and researches speculative fiction. Their short fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, and elsewhere. Their poetry has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Augur Magazine, Apparition Lit, and other venues. When not writing or conducting academic research at the intersection of postcolonial studies, queer studies, and SFF studies, they spend […]

Derrick Boden’s fiction has appeared and is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a writer, a software developer, an adventurer, and a graduate of the Clarion West class of 2019. He currently calls Boston his home, although he’s lived in fourteen cities spanning four continents. He is owned by two cats […]

Amanda Helms (she/her) is a biracial Black/white fantasy, science fiction, and sometimes horror writer whose stories have appeared in FIYAH, Diabolical Plots, Fireside Fiction, and other fine venues. She lives with her family in Colorado. Though all of them are natives, none ski or snowboard, proving that such creatures indeed exist. When not reading or […]