Authors
Karen Aria Lin
By day, Karen Aria Lin is a technical writer in the software industry. By night, she writes speculative fiction stories that tend to feature Asian Americans or blue aliens. Her short fiction has been published in Zombies Need Brains, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, and The First Line. When not writing, she is sending routes at the climbing gym or exploring the lush Pacific Northwest with her Taiwanese Mountain Dog. You can find her website at www.karenlin.me/fiction.
Karl Dandenell
Karl Dandenell is a graduate of Viable Paradise and a Full Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. He and his family, plus their cat overlords, live on an island near San Francisco famous for its Victorian architecture and low speed limits. His preferred drinks are strong Swedish tea and single malt whiskey. Karl's work has appeared in such places as Fireside Fiction, Metaphorosis, DreamForge, Little Blue Marble, Speculative North, and the anthologies Abandoned Places and The Science Fiction Tarot. You can find links to his other work, including podcasts, on his website, www.FireWombats.com.
Kevin Martens Wong
Kevin Martens Wong is the gay, non-binary Kabesa (Leader) of the Kristang / Portuguese-Eurasian community in the Republic of Singapore, and the Omimerliang (Merlionsman) and Tigrisoneru (Dreamtiger) of Pulau Ujong: a living human magnamakara or psychoemotional gate guardian supporting the psychoemotional well-being of all peoples regardless of race, language, religion or sexuality as an independent scholar, teacher and speculative fiction writer. He is the developer of the Osura Pesuasang, the Kristang theory of human individuation collected in the Libru Laranja or Orange Book (merlionsman.com/the-orange-book), and publishes new plays, poetry and prose in English and Kristang at Tigri sa Chang (tigrisachang.substack.com).
Kimberly Christensen
Kimberly lives, writes, waves protest signs, and keeps bees in Seattle with her husband, two children and an assortment of animal companions. She cosplays General Organa and loves any story where smart and ethical defeat evil.
Krystle Yanagihara
Krystle Yanagihara is an avid lover of milk tea and drinks far too many of them. She is from Hawai'i, where she has lived her whole life. Her first story, For All The Hearts We Buried, appears in the 'Ike Pāpālua anthology.
KT Wagner
KT Wagner writes short speculative fiction, loves to knit and is a collector of strange plants, weird trivia and obscure tomes. Her work is published and podcast with Pulp Literature, Cloud Lake Literary, Sylvia Magazine, Neo-opsis, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Toasted Cake and more. KT graduated from Simon Fraser University's Writers Studio in 2015 (Southbank 2013). She organizes writer events and works to create literary community. KT can be found online at www.northernlightsgothic.com and @KT_Wagner.
L. Acadia
L. Acadia is a lit professor at National Taiwan University with poetry forthcoming / in New Orleans Review, Pinhole Poetry, Strange Horizons, The Dread Machine, and elsewhere. Twitter and Instagram: @acadialogue.
Leanne Howard
Leanne (she/her) loves to write about the domestic magic of everyday rituals with some flawed characters thrown in. She earned her MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno and has stories in Typehouse Literary Magazine as well as Luna Station Quarterly and others. When she’s not reading, writing, or teaching, she likes theater, long walks, and a hot cup of tea. She lives with her partner and an imaginary cat in Brooklyn, NY.
Leon Perniciaro
Leon Perniciaro is the editor of Haven Spec Magazine, an English PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut, and a member of the Game Design and Development faculty at Quinnipiac University. A citizen of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb and a New Orleanian, he now resides in New England, where he's terrified of both the climate crisis and the Great Filter. His academic research centers on the intersections of Indigeneity, race, and the environment, with a dissertation project shaping up around ideas of extraction and the various ways that settler society tries to claim Indigeneity for itself. Follow him on Bluesky @leonp.
Lia Lao
Lao is a writer of literary fiction, speculative fiction, and always—freak girl fiction. Originally from New Zealand, she is currently based in Australia on Gadigal land. She is part of the incoming Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop Class of ‘26, a Viable Paradise ‘25 alumni, and has previously been published in Fusion Fragment, Saros Speculative Fiction and more. Follow her @thelialao on Twitter/Bluesky/Instagram/Titkok for future updates.