Sara Backer’s first book of poetry, Such Luck (Flowstone Press 2019) follows two poetry chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press)and Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork). Her honors include a prize in the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize Competition, eight Pushcart nominations, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi resident artist programs. Recent publications include Pedestal Magazine, Cider Press Review, Tar River Poetry, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Not Very Quiet, and DMQ Review, with more forthcoming in Slant, Teach.Write, and Space and Time. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaches at UMass Lowell, and lives in New Hampshire. Her website http://www.sarabacker.com has a publications page with links to archived work as well as a link to her blog, https://americanfuji.blogspot.com.
Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction and poetry, along with the occasional piece of interactive fiction. His fiction has appeared in Nature, Galaxy’s Edge, and Flash Fiction Online, among other places. 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, where you can find him at https://infomancy.net.
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.
F. J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. She has competed at National Poetry Slam as a member of the Madison, WI, Urban Spoken Word team. Her work appears irregularly in Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and elsewhere in the alphabet. She has won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Association Rhysling Award for both Long and Short poems, and is once again the editor of the SFPA’s official magazine, Star*Line. Her dystopian collection of first-contact expedition reports, A Catalogue of the Further Suns, won the 2017 Gold Line Press poetry chapbook contest and the 2018 SFPA Elgin Chapbook Award; her fairytale poetry chapbook Out of the Black Forest won the inaugural 2013 Elgin Award. She works as a freelance editor and book designer for Weird House Press and MadHat Press. Her small apartment is infested by a husband, at least one house centipede, and approximately 7,000 books—mostly SF, fantasy, and horror. Further iniquities at @FJBergmann, facebook.com/fjordbergmann, and badly in-need-of-updating fjbergmann.com.
Robert Borski did not begin to write poetry until he was well into the middle of his sixth decade — hence his frequent description of himself as a late-blooming child prodigy — but since then has had well over 300 poems published in such venues as Asimov’s, Dreams & Nightmares, Strange Horizons, and Star*Line, as well as a first collection of verse, Blood Wallah and Other Poems (Dark Regions Press). He can be found on both Facebook and Twitter (@bobbersPoint). Anyone interested in reading more of Borski’s work should check the bibliography at http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?12514.
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, Escape Artist podcasts, 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.
Aidan Doyle is an Australian writer and editor. He is the co-editor of the World Fantasy Award nominated Sword and Sonnet and the author of The Writer’s Book of Doubt. He has visited more than 100 countries and his experiences include teaching English in Japan, interviewing ninjas in Bolivia, and going ten-pin bowling in North Korea. http://www.aidandoyle.net @aidan_doyle.
P.G. Galalis writes science-fiction, fantasy, and other literature, while also attempting to teach high school English, parent small children, read all the good books, and drink enough coffee to keep up with it all. Although he was born and raised near New York City, he now lives outside of Boston, MA with his Yankees hat. His short stories have appeared in Diabolical Plots and Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, with more forthcoming in Hybrid Fiction and the anthology Footsteps in the Dark from Flame Tree Publishing. You can follow him on Twitter @pggalalis or read his blog and learn more at pggalalis.com.
Melanie Harding-Shaw is a speculative fiction writer, policy geek, and mother-of-three from Wellington, New Zealand. Her work has recently appeared in publications such as Daily Science Fiction, The Arcanist, and Frozen Wavelets. You can find her at https://www.melaniehardingshaw.com/, and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MelanieHardingShawWriter/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/MelHardingShaw.
Jessica Jo Horowitz is a Rhysling Award winning SFF writer and poet. Born in South Korea, they currently live in New England where they balance their aversion to cold with the inability to live anywhere without snow. Previous works can be found at Flash Fiction Online, Daily Science Fiction, Fireside, Apparition Lit. and elsewhere. They blog infrequently at pengolin.wordpress.com and have slightly more frequent feelings and opinions on Twitter @transientj.
Kai Hudson lives in sunny California where she writes, hikes, and rock-climbs with enthusiasm if not skill. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, PseudoPod, PodCastle, Interzone, and other fine places. Find her at kaihudson.com.
Kurt Newton works as a health physics technician for a radiation protection company. His interest in science began at an early age when his parents bought him a microscope and a chemistry set for his eighth birthday. His older brother collected insects. Summer months were often spent tagging along, assisting however he could, on his brother’s hunts for the elusive swallowtail or silk moth, scarab or wasp. Kurt recently completed a series of poems that take place in a futuristic all-insect world. He attributes his brother for providing the education that inspired the collection. His Amazon author page is https://www.amazon.com/Kurt-Newton/e/B006VYUMUM. He can also be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/kurt.newton.56, and Twitter at https://twitter.com/kurtdnewton. Drop by and say Hello.
Ugonna-Ora Owoh is a queer-femme writer and poet. His works has appeared in Space and Time Magazine, Strange Horizons, Truancy, and others. You can read his fashion and lifestyle blog at Kulturemags.blogspot.com & find him on Facebook at Ugonna-Ora Owoh.
Laura Theis grew up in a part of Germany where all the streets were named after characters from myths and fairy tales, moved to the UK a decade ago, and writes poems, stories and songs in her second language. She has an MSt (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Keble College, Oxford. Her work has been published in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Canada and the U.S. It appears in a variety of anthologies and journals including Mslexia, Strange Horizons, and Abyss&Apex. An AM Heath Prize recipient, she has also won the 2020 Mogford Short Story Prize and was a finalist in over twenty other international poetry and fiction competitions including the Acumen Poetry Prize, the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize and three consecutive Live Canon International Poetry Awards. Her forthcoming pamphlet, how to extricate yourself, was selected by Paul McGrane for the 2020 Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. Her website is http://lauratheis.weebly.com/.
Surrounded by gnomes, gargoyles and poisonous plants, KT Wagner writes speculative fiction in the garden of her home on the west coast of Canada. She enjoys daydreaming and is a collector of strange plants, weird trivia and obscure tomes. KT graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writers Studio in 2015 (Southbank 2013). Her short stories are published or podcast at Daily Science Fiction, Factor Four, The Twisted Book of Shadows, The Centropic Oracle, Toasted Cake and several anthologies. She’s currently working on a novel. KT can be found online at http://northernlightsgothic.com/publications Twitter: @KT_Wagner Instagram: ktwagner_writer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/northernlightsgothic/.