Authors
J. A. W. McCarthy
McCarthy is a two-time Bram Stoker Award and twotime Shirley Jackson Award finalist and author of Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories (Cemetery Gates Media, 2021) and Sleep Alone (Off Limits Press, 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Vastarien, PseudoPod, Split Scream Vol. 3, Apparition Lit, Tales to Terrify, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol 13. She is a second generation immigrant of Thai and Slovak descent and lives with her spouse and assistant cats in the Pacific Northwest. You can call her Jen on most platforms @JAWMcCarthy, and find out more at www.jawmccarthy.com.
J.D. Harlock
J.D. Harlock is a Syrian Lebanese Palestinian writer and editor based in Beirut. In addition to his posts at Wasifiri, as an editor-at-large, and at Solarpunk Magazine, as a poetry editor, his writing has been featured in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and the SFWA Blog. You can always find him on Twitter and Instagram posting updates on his latest projects.
J.R. Dawson
Dawson (she*/they) is the author of The First Bright Thing (Tor), with shorter works in places such as F&SF, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, and Lightspeed. She lives in Minnesota with a loving wife and three dogs. Her next book is coming soon from Tor, a sapphic ghost story set in Chicago where Lake Michigan is the River Styx. She is not good at puzzles.
insta: @jrdawsonwriter
website: www.jrdawsonwriter.com
twitter: @j_r_dawson
Jake Price
Jake Price is a senior at Susquehanna University pursuing a degree in creative writing. He was born in Texas, and now currently resides in Pennsylvania. He spends most of his time reading his work to his cat, Raven, who has yet to give him any feedback. Jake has an Instagram account where he posts his poetry, @nolenprice, that has amassed over 3100 followers as of writing this. His poetry has been published in Rivercraft Magazine, Poet Lore Magazine, and Sanctuary Magazine. His short fiction has been published in Cream Scene Carnival and Querencia Press.
James Parenti
James Parenti a Pennsylvania-based author and playwright. His short fiction was recently published by Dread Machine Magazine, and his plays May Violets Spring and How Much of Me is You have been produced by multiple theaters across the US. He lives outside Philadelphia with his spouse, an embarrassingly large fleet of guitars, and two creepy kitties named after gothic literary characters.
Janel Comeau
Janel Comeau is a writer, illustrator, comedian and youth worker currently residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Write or Die Magazine, Ink in Thirds, Blink-Ink, Paranoid Tree Press, and several other fine publications. She is a regular contributor to "The Beaverton", Canada's top source of satire news. She can be found on Bluesky (@verybadllama.bsky.social) or on her illustrated comedy blog at www.allwitnobrevity.com.
Jelena Dunato
Jelena Dunato is an art historian, curator, speculative fiction writer and lover of all things ancient. She grew up in Croatia on a steady diet of adventure stories and then wandered the world for a decade, building a career in the arts. Jelena’s stories have appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Dark, Future SF and Cossmass Infinities, among others. Jelena lives on an island in the Adriatic with her husband, daughter, and cat. You can find her at jelenadunato.com and on Twitter @jelenawrites.
Jenna Hanchey
Jenna Hanchey has been called a "badass fairy," and she attempts to live up to the title. A professor of critical/cultural studies at Arizona State University, her research looks at how speculative fiction can imagine decolonization and bring it into being. Her own writing tries to support this project of creating better futures for us all. Her BSFA award-shortlisted work appears in Star*Line, Nature, and Radon, among other venues. She cohosts the podcast "Griots & Galaxies" on African speculative fiction. Follow her adventures at www.jennahanchey.com.
Jennifer Crow
Shy and nocturnal, Jennifer Crow has never been photographed in the wild, but it's rumored that she lives near a waterfall in western New York. Her work has appeared in a number of print and electronic venues, including Uncanny Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Wondrous Real and Analog Science Fiction. Curious readers can catch up with her on Twitter @writerjencrow.
Jennifer Mace
Jennifer Mace is a queer Brit who roams the Pacific Northwest in search of tea and interesting plant life. A four-time Hugo-finalist podcaster for her work with Be The Serpent, her short fiction and poetry may be found in magazines such as Baffling, Flash Fiction Online, and Uncanny Magazine. Find her other works online at www.englishmace.com.