Colleen Anderson has a BFA in writing and is a Canada Council and BC Arts Council recipient. Her poetry has appeared in numerous venues such as Polu Texni, The Future Fire, Cascadia Subduction Zone and Transition. She edits anthologies, writes fiction and is working on two collections of poetry and a novel. Find her at www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com
Daniel Ausema‘s writing encompasses a range of lyrical and strange stories of fantasy and fantasy-adjacent genres. His fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications, including Strange Horizons, Diabolical Plots, and Daily Science Fiction. He is the creator of the steampunk-fantasy Spire City series and the author of The Silk Betrayal, the first book of the Arcanist Chronicles, published by Guardbridge Books. He lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rockies. Twitter: @ausema; Facebook: www.facebook.com/authordanielausema/; website: https://danielausema.blogspot.com/
Davian Aw is a Singaporean writer and Rhysling Award nominee with over 60 pieces of short fiction and poetry published in venues including Strange Horizons, Abyss & Apex, Not One of Us, Anathema, NewMyths.com, Diabolical Plots and LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. His time travel short story ‘One’s Company‘ was featured on Tangent Online‘s 2016 Recommended Reading list, and his story ‘Control‘ was selected for 2018’s Transcendent 4 anthology. If you want more time travel, ‘There Are No Echoes‘ was published first in queer feminist magazine The Future Fire and then reprinted in Christian SFF magazine Mysterion. More of Davian’s writing can be found at https://davianaw.wordpress.com/
Shenoa Carroll-Bradd writes mainly horror and fantasy, though she sometimes dabbles in scifi and romance, of all things. Her short fiction has appeared in nearly three dozen anthologies and been produced for audio on several fiction podcasts. She’s currently working on a Victorian supernatural mystery series featuring amateur detectives Fidgett & Klein. For updates on new projects and a running total of submissions and rejections, visit facebook.com/sbcbfiction. For free fiction, information on previous publications, and links to live readings, visit sbcbfiction.net
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 and has appeared in over fifty journals, including F&SF. Her short fiction has appeared in Galaxy’s Edge and Flame Tree anthologies. For more about her work, including her Edda-Earth novels and her poetry collection, The Gates of Never, please see www.edda-earth.com.
Margarita I 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
Born in Korea, Jessica Jo Horowitz is a Rhysling award-nominated writer of speculative fiction and poetry, now residing in New England where they balance their aversion to cold with the inability to live anywhere without snow. Previous work can be found at Flash Fiction Online, Fireside, Daily Science Fiction, ApparitionLit and others. They infrequently blog at pangolin.wordpress.com and have slightly more frequent feelings and opinions on Twitter @transientj.
Michael McCormick‘s fiction, poetry, and articles have appeared in many journals and anthologies. His award-winning poem Marigjeis scheduled to appear in two different upcoming anthologies. Mike belongs to the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA), Codex Writers Group, League of Minnesota Poets (LOMP), and The Loft Literary Center.He and his wife Laura split their time between Saint Paul, Minnesota and Lake Superior’s north shore. They enjoy travel, hiking, Tai Chi, and perplexing cats. Learn about Mike and his work at www.mikemccormick.org.
L. P. Melling currently writes from the East of England after living around the UK through education and work. He is a Writers of the Future finalist and his short fiction has appeared in such places as ASM, Thrilling Words, DreamForge, and ARTPOST and is forthcoming elsewhere. When not writing, he works for a legal charity in London that advises and supports victims of crime.
Lorraine Schein is a New York writer. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Full Bleed, and Little Blue Marble, and in the anthologies Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath, and Eighteen. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from mayapplepress.com.
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. She writes both fiction and poetry, and has won the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award. Her two latest books are from opposite ends of the poetry spectrum: “Elemental Haiku,” containing haiku for each element of the periodic table (Ten Speed Press, 2019), and “The Sign of the Dragon,” an epic fantasy with Chinese and Mongolian elements (JABberwocky Literary Agency, April 2020). She tweets at @MarySoonLee and hopes that her antiquated website (http://www.marysoonlee.com) will be updated any day now.
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. By day, she edits reports for historians and archaeologists. In her alleged spare time, she runs a craft business, co-runs a small press, and tries to find time for writing. Her steampunk adventure series, Brass and Glass, is available from DefCon One Publishing. She is a member of Broad Universe, SFWA, and Codex Writers. She lives in Seattle with her husband, author Jeremy Zimmerman, and their herd of cats. Visit her at http://historythatneverwas.com.
Wendy N. Wagner is the author of An Oath of Dogs, as well as two Viking-flavored Pathfinder tie-in novels. Her short fiction has appeared in over forty publications, including Wastelands 3: The New Apocalypse (edited by John Joseph Adams), Farrago’s Wainscot, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She is the incoming (2021) editor-in-chief of NightmareMagazine and also serves as Managing/Senior Editor at Lightspeed. She lives, works, and makes mischief in Portland, Oregon. You can keep up with her at winniewoohoo.com.