Colleen Anderson edits and writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in over 250 publications such as HWA Poetry Showcase and Starline. Her fiction collection, A Body of Work was recently published by Black Shuck Books, UK. She is also working on a poetry collection and alternate world novel. Find her at www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com
Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian, speculative fiction writer and poet, web editor for The Heron’s Nest and the editor-in-chief of sub-Q Magazine. His poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku, Acorn, and a number of other magazines. Stewart was born in England, has lived in South Carolina, Japan, and California (in that order), and currently resides in Oregon with his family—although if anyone asks, he’ll usually say he’s from the Internet. You can find him online at https://infomancy.net or on https://twitter.com/stewartcbaker
Anatoly Belilovsky was born in a city that went through six or seven owners in the last century, all of whom used it to do a lot more than drive to church on Sundays; he is old enough to remember tanks rolling through it on their way to Czechoslovakia in 1968. He has neither cats nor dogs, but was admitted into SFWA in spite of this deficiency, having published original and translated stories in NATURE, F&SF, Daily SF, Kasma, UFO, Stupefying Stories, Cast of Wonders, and other markets. He blogs about writing at loldoc.net.
Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer. She’s written close to 50 stories, which have appeared in Clarkesworld, Shimmer, Strange Horizons, and Asimov’s, amongst others. She attended Clarion West 2016 and will be the 2020 writer in residence at Massey University in New Zealand. Her Twitter handle is @OJCade, and her website is at https://ojcade.com/
Isabel Cañas spends her days writing fantasy and working on her PhD in late medieval Turkish and Persian literature. A 2018 graduate of Clarion West, she divides her time between Chicago and London. To learn more about what Isabel is up to, including recent and forthcoming publications, see www.isabelcanas.com. She is represented by Kari Sutherland of Bradford Literary Agency.
Nebula-nominated Beth Cato is the author of the Clockwork Dagger duology and the Blood of Earth trilogy from Harper Voyager. She’s a Hanford, California native transplanted to the Arizona desert, where she lives with her husband, son, and requisite cats. Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.
Marc Criley avidly read fantasy and science fiction for over forty-five years, then one day thought, “Hey, maybe I could do this!” So he sat down at his computer, wrote a story, collected rejections, wrote more stories, collected more rejections, until… Voilà! Proving you’re never too old to start writing. Marc maintains a blog at kickin-the-darkness.com where one can find a bibliography of his published stories and haiku. He is very noisy on Twitter as @That_MarcC, foisting all manner of art, archaeology, politics, computers, space, Alabama, and Tammy the Dog and cat pics onto an unsuspecting Twitterverse.
Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations; her short fiction has appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show, Compelling Science Fiction, and Pseudopod. For more about her work, including her Edda-Earth novels and her poetry collection, The Gates of Never,please see www.edda-earth.com. For more about her work, please see www.edda-earth.com.
KC Grifant writes internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird western stories. Her fiction stories have found homes in collectible card games, podcasts, anthologies (including the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror) and magazines, such as Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Unnerving Magazine and the Lovecraft eZine. For more information, visit www.SciFiWri.com or amazon.com/author/kcgrifant
Annie Neugebauer is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author with work appearing and forthcoming in more than a hundred publications, including magazines such as Cemetery Dance, Apex, and Black Static, and anthologies such as Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 3 and 4 and #1 Amazon bestsellers Killing It Softly and Fire. She’s a columnist for Writer Unboxed and LitReactor. You can visit her at www.AnnieNeugebauer.com.
Margarita Serafimova was a finalist in eight international poetry contests. She has three collections in Bulgarian, and work in Agenda Poetry, London Grip, Waxwing, Trafika Europe, A-Minor, Poetry South, Nixes Mate, Journal, Orbis, Minor Literatures, Writing Disorder, Chronogram, Noble/ Gas,Origins, glitterMOB, Landfill, Obra/Artifact, Leveler, Memoir Mixtapes, etc. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/MargaritaISerafimova/?ref=aymt_homepage_pane
Sonora Taylor is the author of five books, including Without Condition and Little Paranoias: Stories. Her work has appeared in The Sirens Call, Mercurial Stories, Tales to Terrify, the Ladies of Horror Fiction podcast, and Camden Park Press’ Quoth the Raven. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA, with her husband. Visit her online at sonorawrites.com.
Pat Tompkins is an editor. Her short poems have appeared in Grievous Angel, Dwarf Stars, Space & Time, and other publications.
Dawn Vogel‘s academic background is in history, so it’s not surprising that much of her fiction is set in earlier times. She is a member of Broad Universe, SFWA, and Codex Writers. The final book in her steampunk trilogy, Brass and Glass, will be out in late 2019. She lives in Seattle with her husband, author Jeremy Zimmerman, and their herd of cats. Visit her at http://historythatneverwas.com or follow her on Twitter @historyneverwas
Kim Whysall-Hammond is a scientist and an expert in obsolete telecommunications arcana, who used to write poetry and hide it away. She now shares poetry on her blog (https://thecheesesellerswife.wordpress.com) and has been published by Ink, Sweat and Tears, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Amaryllis, Crannóg and Star*Line. She believes, against all evidence, that she is a good dancer.
Deborah Wong graduated from the University of London with Bachelors of Laws. Her works have been published on numerous online journals and paperback magazines, including Crack the Spine, Rat’s Ass Review, The Stray Branch, Streetcake Magazine, Thought Catalog, Liquid Imagination, Strange Horizons, and forthcoming in Seagery Zine. Currently, she works as a finance executive. Twitter: @PetiteDeborah. Instagram: @deborahbie