Authors
Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly leans on her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to The Market of 100 Fortunes and The Waking of Angantyr. She is the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of the Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent along with several other series, over ninety short stories, several poems, and the New Worlds series of worldbuilding guides; as half of M.A. Carrick, she has written the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy. For more information and social media, visit linktr.ee/swan_tower.
Marie Vibbert
Marie Vibbert is a Hugo and Nebula finalist with over 90 stories and 3 novels in print. Her works have been translated into Chinese, Czech, and Vietnamese. She fell in love with science fiction when she snuck out of a battered women's shelter and stumbled on a screening of Day the Earth Stood Still in a library basement. This story is a fictionalization of that event. Learn more about her at marievibbert.com.
Marisca Pichette
Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts. She has published more than three hundred pieces of short fiction and poetry, appearing in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, The Deadlands, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov's, Nightmare Magazine, and many others. Her poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and Elgin Awards. Their eco-horror novella, Every Dark Cloud, is out now from Ghost Orchid Press.
Marissa Lingen
Marissa Lingen is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. She lives in Minnesota atop some of the oldest bedrock on the continent. She has an inordinate fondness for apples, tisanes, and Moomins.
Mark A. Fisher
Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, CA. His poetry has appeared in: Reliquiae, Silver Blade, Eccentric Orbits, and many other places. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem “papyrus” in 2016. His first chapbook, drifter, is available from Amazon. His poem “there are fossils” (originally published in Silver Blade) came in second in the 2020 Dwarf Stars Speculative Poetry Competition. His plays have appeared on California stages in Pine Mountain Club, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, and Hayward. He has also won cooking ribbons at the Kern County Fair.
Matt Tighe
Matt Tighe lives on a small farm in New South Wales with his amazing children, his patient spouse, and too many animals. He is an Australian Shadows and Aurealis Award winner, and has been shortlisted for several other awards. You can find more information on Matt at matttighe.weebly.com.
Matthew Roy
Matthew Roy (he/him) lives in the American Midwest. He recently moved from a small town to a big city, from a rambling farmhouse to a small apartment, and from a major corporation to an up-and-comer. He's writing more. He's making changes. He got a dog. He's neck-deep in revisions on his first novel and banging away at his second. His speculative poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Eternal Haunted Summer, Illumen Magazine, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, The Quarter(ly) Journal, The Sprawl Mag, and Star*Line. Find him on his website and on X (formerly Twitter) @mattroywriter.
Meghan Kemp-Gee
Meghan Kemp-Gee lives somewhere between Vancouver, BC, and Fredericton, NB. She writes poetry, comics, and scripts of all kinds. She also teaches composition and plays ultimate frisbee. She co-created the webcomics Contested Strip and Space Heroines of El-Andoo, and her comics and short fiction have been published in numerous anthologies. Her poetry has recently appeared in PRISM, Copper Nickel, Rising Phoenix Review, The Shore, Stone of Madness, Altadena Poetry Review, Anomaly, Train, and Rejection Letters. You can find her on Twitter @MadMollGreen.
Melissa A Watkins
Watkins is a writer now, but used to be a teacher, a singer, an actress, and a very bad translator (thankfully, not all at the same time). Her short stories have previously appeared in midnight & indigo, khoreo, Fantasy Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. After fifteen years of living in Europe and Asia, she's now based in Boston, where she reads too much and rants about it at EqualOpportunityReader.com.
Melissa Ridley Elmes
Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Illumen, Spectral Realms, Reunion: The Dallas Review, In Parentheses, Gyroscope, and various other print and web venues, and her first collection of poems, Arthurian Things, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020.