Authors
A. R. Frederiksen
AR Frederiksen is a Danish author whose short fiction has been accepted by Cosmic Horror Monthly, Shortwave Magazine, Haven Speculative, and others. She is represented by FinePrint Literary Management and volunteers as a slush reader for Diabolical Plots, Small Wonders Magazine and Khoreo Magazine. She lives at the tip of Denmark with her Minnesotan husband and angry senior citizen of a chihuahua.
A. T. Sayre
A.T. Sayre has been writing in some form or other for over three-quarters of his life, ever since he was ten years old. From plays to poems, film scripts to graphic novels, he has tried them all, but has never strayed too far from his first true love, narrative fiction—specifically, speculative fiction. His work has appeared in Analog, Utopia Science Fiction, Theaker’s Quarterly, and Andromeda Spaceways. A more detailed list of his publications can be found at www.atsayre.com/fiction. Born in Kansas City, raised in New Hampshire, he lives in Brooklyn and likes to read in coffeehouses.
A. W. Prihandita
Anselma Widha Prihandita (she/her) is a college writing instructor and PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition, with scholarly (and personal) interests in decolonial and transnational writing. Her most favorite job, however, is writing speculative fiction with hints of heartbreak and the personal political. She splits her time between the US West Coast, where she currently teaches and studies, and Indonesia, where she grew up and where her home remains. She attended the Odyssey workshop in 2023 on their Fresh Voices Scholarship, and the Clarion workshop in 2024 on their Octavia Butler Scholarship. Her stories are published or forthcoming in Cast of Wonders, khōréō magazine, Ghoulish Tales, Mysterion, and Fusion Fragment.
A.D. Sui
A.D. Sui is a Ukrainian-born, queer, and disabled science fiction writer. She is a failed academic and a retired fencer. Her writing has appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Augur, and others. Her debut novella THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT is coming out with Neon Hemlock in 2024. When not wrangling her two dogs, she's on every social media platform as @TheSuiWay.
A.J. Van Belle
A.J. Van Belle is a nonbinary/transmasculine writer and scientist, living on Vancouver Island with their husband and two dogs. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net, and their short fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies from 2004 to the present. They currently write full-time and serve as a literary agent intern at the Booker Albert Agency. A biologist, they draw on their science background to inform the world building in their work. Lauren Bieker of FinePrint Literary represents their novels.
AbdulBasit Oluwanishola
Abdulbasit Oluwanishola, SWAN V, is a young Nigerian poet and essayist who writes from Ilorin, Kwara State. He's studying Agriculture in Usmanu Dafodiyo University Sokoto. He is the winner of the PCU Eid Celebration on-the-spot poetry contest 2023. He is shortlisted in the Dawn Project Writing Contest 2023. His works are up/forthcoming on A Long House, Poetry Journal, Poetry Column, Rowayat, Ninshãr Arts, World Voices Magazine, Last Stanza, The Marbled Sigh, Invisible City and elsewhere. He tweets @OO1810107.
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem (he/him) Frontier III, is a Nigerian writer and linguist. He is a recipient of the Hill Top Creative Writing Award for Excellence, 2023. He has been nominated for the Best of the Net thrice and was nominated for Best Spiritual Literature. His works appear and are forthcoming on National Museum of Language, POETRY, Transition, MIZNA, Waxwing, Uncanny Magazine, Poetry Wales, SAND, Nat Brut, West Trade Review, LOLWE, Harbor Review, Southern Humanities Review, Isele, Qwerty Magazine, Shallow Tales Review, Nigeria News Direct, & elsewhere.
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, TPC XI, is a medical student, poet, essayist & Assistant Editor of Fiery Scribe Review from Nigeria. Winner of Team Booktu Poetry Contest (2024), Cheshire White Ribbon Day Contest (2022), NiMasa Cancer Awareness Poetry contest (2024) & Konya Shamsrumi Poetry Contest (2024), he & his works are featured in 20.35 Africa, Isele Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Poet Lore, Tab Journal, Poetry Wales, Variant Literature & elsewhere. An Adroit Journal Summer Mentee & SprinNG Writers' Fellow, his works were selected for inclusion in the Annual Outstanding Young Writers Anthology (Paper Crane, 2023). He tweets @ademindpoems.
Ai Jiang
Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte Award winner, Nebula-, Locus-, Bram Stoker-, and BFSA Award finalist, and an immigrant from Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She is a member of HWA and SFWA. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, Uncanny, among others. She is the recipient of Odyssey Workshop's 2022 Fresh Voices Scholarship and the author of Linghun and I AM AI. Find her on X (@AiJiang_), Insta (@ai.jian.g), and online (http://aijiang.ca).
Alex Woodroe
Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer and editor of dark speculative fiction. She’s the author of Whisperwood, and has several short stories and articles published in venues like Horror Library, Nightmare Magazine, and The NoSleep Podcast. Alex lives in the heart of the Transylvanian region of Romania and is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated Editor-in-Chief of Tenebrous Press.