Authors
Liam Hogan
Liam Hogan is an award-winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction and in Best of British Fantasy (NewCon Press). He's been published by Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and Flame Tree Press, among others. He helps host Liars' League London, volunteers at the creative writing charity Ministry of Stories, and lives and avoids work in London. More details at happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.com.
Lin Darrow
Lin Darrow's fiction, poetry and comics have appeared in anthologies by Air and Nothingness Press, Jessamine Press, Eerie River, Fortuna Media, Valour I and II, In Somnio and QueerSciFi. Her comic Shaderunners, about bootleggers in a greyscale world who steal bottled colour, has been published by Hiveworks since 2015, and a novella was published by Less Than Three Press (Pyre at the Eyreholme Press) in 2018 prior to its closure. She is a two-time Prism Award nominee whose work can be found @linkeepsitreal.
Lindsey Duncan
LINDSEY DUNCAN is a chef / pastry chef (CPC CSW), professional Celtic harp performer and life-long writer, with short fiction and poetry in numerous speculative fiction publications. Her science fiction novel, Scylla and Charybdis, is available from Grimbold Books. She feels that music and language are inextricably linked. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and can be found on the web at LindseyDuncan.com.
LP Kindred
LP Kindred is a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer, editor, teaching artist, and podcaster of speculative fiction from the axes of Black and Queer Identities. An alum of Hurston-Wright, VONA, and Clarion Workshop, Kindred's words feature on Tor.com, Fiyah Lit Mag, Carnegie Hall website, Apex, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Anthema Spec from the Margins. LP has guest edited issues of Speculative City, The Cosmic Background, and Haven Spec as well as co-editing and contributing VOODOONAUTS PRESENTS: (RE)LIVING MYTHOLOGY (Android Press). Kindred is a cocoa-founder of Voodoonauts, a grassroots collective addressing the underrepresentation and isolation of Black Creatives in Speculative Communities. LP is a co-host of Just Keep Writing, a podcast for writers by writers, to keep you writing. LP's 2022 short story WANDERLUST is Ignyte Award nominated. linktr.ee/LPKINDRED.
Lucero Valdovinos
A native of Zacatecas, Mexico, Lucero is an emerging writer who dabbles in fantasy, poetry, and magical realism written from a queer immigrant perspective. When not creating in some manner they can be found in quiet places. Lucero holds a BA in Psychology and works full-time in California, and is always (always!) haciendo la lucha.
Lynne Sargent
Lynne Sargent is a writer, aerialist, and holds a Ph.D in Applied Philosophy. They are the poetry editor at Utopia Science Fiction magazine. Their work has been nominated for Rhysling, Elgin, and Aurora Awards, and has appeared in venues such as Augur Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction. Their work has also been supported through the Ontario Arts Council. To find out more, reach out to them on Twitter @SamLynneS or for a complete bibliography visit them at scribbledshadows.wordpress.com.
M. R. Robinson
M. R. Robinson is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, where she studies time and desire in Renaissance literature. When not writing or teaching, she and her wife are very (very) slowly restoring their crumbly old house, which they share with too many pets and too many books. Her fiction has previously appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and is forthcoming in Fusion Fragment. You can find her on Twitter or Bluesky @mruthrobinson.
Madalena Daleziou
Madalena Daleziou is a pushcart-nominated Greek author living in Glasgow, where she studied an MLitt in fantasy literature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lucent Dreaming, The Deadlands, and the other side of hope, and she is currently seeking representation for her neo-Victorian fantasy novel. She can most often be found in a bookshop or behind a keyboard writing stories with too many ghosts. Follow her on Twitter at @LBooklott.
Madi Haab
Madi Haab is a queer, neurodivergent, and half-Moroccan writer from Montreal who explores identity and relationships through speculative fiction. In 2023, her story “Blabbermouth” received an honourable mention from the Penguin Random House Student Award for Fiction, and her short fiction has since appeared in Hexagon Magazine and is forthcoming in Augur Magazine. When not writing, she dabbles in singing and art, and likes naps and videogames a little too much. Find her at lamotdite.com or on Instagram, Bluesky, and Twitter @lamotdite.
Marcus Whalbring
Marcus Whalbring is the author of A Concert of Rivers from Milk & Cake Press, as well as How to Draw Fire from Finishing Line Press and Just Flowers from Crooked Steeple Press. A graduate of the MFA program at Miami University, his poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in, Strange Horizons, Space & Time, Illumen, The Dread Machine, Abyss & Apex, Spaceports and Spidersilk, Cortland Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Spry, and Underwood Press, among others. He’s a high school teacher, a father, and a husband. You can connect with him via twitter at @marcuswhalbring and learn more about his work.