D. S. Carabise grew up in the simultaneously beautiful and horrific farm country of upstate New York. Days of wandering misty woods and haunted-looking barns have given him a taste for the fantastical and macabre. He currently lives with his amazing wife, their two wonderful cats, and their lovely dog. Although there is considerably less farmland where they live now, he often finds himself dreaming of his old, imagined terrors.
Kosoluchi Agboanike writes prose, poetry, and plays from Nigeria. Her work has appeared in African Writer, Anathema, Olongo Africa, and elsewhere. She was the 2021 winner of the Emeka Anuforo Prize for Best Literary Artist of the Year.
Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Scientific American, and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies The Unbearables, Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her newest book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe, was published by Autonomedia and available on Amazon.
Gunnar De Winter is a Belgian biologist who works as a science writer and storyteller. He has studied bacteria wars, social spiders, little fish, running lizards, and robot behavior. His fiction has appeared in, among others, Heartlines Spec, Future SF Digest, and The Deadlands.
Bret Nelson is an Emmy Award-winning creator. When he’s not writing stories, he makes TV shows and games. Over the years, he’s worked with Kermit the Frog, Buzz Lightyear, and Conan the Cimmerian. Right now, he’s busy with projects he’s not allowed to talk about (that’s what the contracts say). You’ll find his books and stories here: www.amazon.com/author/nelsonwrites.
Rob Gillham is an author of weird and dark fantasy short fiction. He lives in London, UK. His writing occurs in the margins of the day, where it competes for his time with playing double bass in an obscure gothic rockabilly band. Rob’s stories have appeared—or are due to appear— in Escape Pod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Kaleidotrope, Daily Science Fiction, Tales To Terrify and Creepy Podcast amongst others. You can find links to all his published work and social media via his website: robgillham.com.
Wen Wen Yang is a Chinese American from the Bronx, New York. She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a degree in English and creative writing. You can find her short fiction in Fantasy Magazine, Apex, Cast of Wonders and more. An up-to-date bibliography is on WenWenWrites.com
Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her award-winning poetry and prose has appeared in over seventy journals, including F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, and Lightspeed. For more about her work, including her Elgin-placing poetry collections, Bounded by Eternity and From Voyages Unreturning, see www.deborahldavitt.com. She also has a new poetry chapbook out in 2024 (Xenoforming), as well as a TTRPG and novel: Mists & Memory and In Memory’s Shadow.
Brandon Case is a golden retriever who writes of unsettling worlds. He has recent work in Escape Pod, Flash Fiction Online, and Small Wonders, among others. You can catch his alpine adventures on Twitter and Instagram @BrandonCase101 or connect at www.brandoncase.net.
Nico Martinez Nocito (they/them) writes speculative poetry and fiction, often with a queer and feminist bent. Their work can be found in Strange Horizons, Grimm Retold, and in Flame Tree Press’s anthology Morgana Le Fay, among others. Learn more about them and their writing on Instagram @nicowritesbooks.
Spencer Nitkey is a writer, researcher, and educator living in Philadelphia. He was a 2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction finalist, and is a Best Small Fictions, Rhysling Award, and two-time Pushcart nominee. His stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Apex Magazine, Diabolical Plots, Lightspeed Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Fusion Fragment, and others. You can find more of his writing and learn more about him on his website, spencernitkey.com.
Helen French is a writer, book hoarder and TV-soaker-upper who grew up in Merseyside near the coast and now lives in Hertfordshire, UK with her family. Her short stories have appeared in venues such as Factor Four, Flash Fiction Online and Stupefying Stories, and she is currently buried in novel writing. You can find her online at helenfrench.net.
In a cove of a Greek island, Akis was born a rather peculiar infant and has only grown stranger every year. By day, he's a researcher of biomedical AI and ethics, hoping there's something less dystopian to come from this technology. His words have wormed their way into Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Flame Tree, and Uncharted, among others. Visit his website for updates on his dreadful machinations: https://linktr.ee/akislinardos.
Sarina Dorie has sold over 200 short stories to markets like Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, and F & SF. She has over one hundred books up on Amazon, including her bestselling series, Womby’s School for Wayward Witches.
A few of her favorite things include: gluten-free brownies (not necessarily glutton-free), Star Trek, steampunk, fairies, Severus Snape, and Mr. Darcy. She lives with twenty-three hypoallergenic fur babies, by which she means tribbles. By the time you finish reading this bio, there will be twenty-seven.
You can find info about her short stories and novels on her website: www.sarinadorie.com.
Andrew Akers (He/Him) is a forest ranger and fiction writer from Pennsylvania, USA. His work has appeared in Book XI, Stupefying Stories Magazine, Fabula Argentea, Black Hare Press, and Cloaked Press. When he isn’t working or writing, Andrew is running marathons, playing Dungeons & Dragons, or raising his son with his far more talented half, Kylie. For more information, check out his website:
Gray is a Scots-born writer and photographer who lives and works in NYC. His stories have run in New Myths, Abyss and Apex, Cosmic Roots and many more, and it’s his ambition to be well enough known to be considered publicity-shy. [Threads: David_A_Gray]
Liam Hogan is an award-winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). He volunteers at the creative writing charities Ministry of Stories, and Spark Young Writers. Host of the live literary event Liars’ League for twelve years, he's now escaped London, but remains a Liar. More details at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk.
Amanda Cecelia Lang is a horror author and aspiring monster-slayer from Colorado. As a diehard scary movie nerd, her favorite things are meta-slashers, ‘80s nostalgia, and the rise of a fierce final girl. Her scary stories haunt the dark corners of many popular podcasts, magazines, and anthologies, including The Deadlands, Ghoulish Tales, Uncharted, Gamut, Cast of Wonders, and Darkness Beckons. Her debut short story collection Saturday Fright at the Movies: 13 Tales from the Multiplex (Dark Matter INK) is now playing. You can stalk her work at amandacecelialang.com—just don’t be surprised if she leaps out at you from the shadows.
Kosoluchi Agboanike writes prose, poetry, and plays from Nigeria. Her work has appeared in African Writer, Anathema, Olongo Africa, and elsewhere. She was the 2021 winner of the Emeka Anuforo Prize for Best Literary Artist of the Year.
Kosoluchi Agboanike writes prose, poetry, and plays from Nigeria. Her work has appeared in African Writer, Anathema, Olongo Africa, and elsewhere. She was the 2021 winner of the Emeka Anuforo Prize for Best Literary Artist of the Year.
Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in over seventy journals, including F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, and Lightspeed. For more about her work, including her Elgin-placing poetry collections, Bounded by Eternity and From Voyages Unreturning, see www.deborahldavitt.com.
Jeff Hewitt is a sci-fi writer living in Los Angeles. He studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and grew up surrounded by onion mucks in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Slate, Escape Pod, and Reckoning.
jeffreydevinhewitt.com
Samantha L. Strong writes dark and beautiful SFF stories about complicated characters. Like many Elder Millennials, she’d like to become an herbalist and live in an abandoned, haunted nunnery somewhere far away from people.
Samantha’s short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, AE: The Science Fiction Review, and elsewhere, and she’s the former Executive Editor at Flash Fiction Online. She has four novels out about angels and demons: her Fallen Redemption trilogy and a companion novel. You can find her on Instagram and TikTok @SamanthaLStrong, and more of her writing is available on her website www.samanthalstrong.com.
Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Scientific American, and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies The Unbearables, Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her newest book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe, was published by Autonomedia and available on Amazon.
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and anthologist from Brooklyn, NY. He’s the author of Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his short stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. His website is www.alexshvartsman.com.
Resa Nelson is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. She is also a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop. She has sold more than 20 short stories to magazines and anthologies, including Clarkesworld, Science Fiction Age, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress XXIII, Women of Darkness II, Future Boston, and 2041. She was the TV/Movie columnist for Realms of Fantasy magazine for 13 years and also wrote articles for SCI FI magazine. She has published 24 novels. Visit her website at resanelson.com.
Robin Pond is a Canadian writer of plays and prose fiction. His mystery novel, Last Voyage, was published in 2018 and in the last several years he has published numerous speculative short stories in various magazines and anthologies, including Ginger which was voted Best Steampunk Short Story in the 2024 Critters Annual Readers Poll. Robin’s sci fi novella, Assimilation, and full-length novel, Canaan Within, are both available through Amazon.
Georgina Kamsika is a speculative fiction writer born in Yorkshire, England, to Anglo-Indian immigrant parents and has spent most of her life explaining her English first name, Polish surname and South Asian features. She graduated from the Clarion West workshop in 2012, was the UNESCO Cities of Literature Writer for Wonju in 2022.
As a second-generation immigrant, her work often utilises the speculative element to examine power structures that are mirrored in the real world, touching on issues of race, class, and gender. She can be found at kamsika.com and @GKamsika on most socials.