Authors
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.
Macey Levington
Macey Levington 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 debut novel Blood of Queens is forthcoming from Saga Press in Summer 2027 . Find her short fiction and poetry at www.englishmace.com.
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 (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent writer and poet of Moroccan descent from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She draws inspiration from her mixed cultural heritage and identities to explore the liminal and interstitial. Her work has appeared in Augur Magazine, Haven Speculative, and Baffling Magazine, to name a few, and in 2025, she won the QWF’s carte blanche Prize and the Marina Nemat Award for Fantasy. When not writing, she dabbles in art and singing, and likes video games and afternoon naps a little too much. Find her at madihaab.com and on Bluesky @madihaab.com.
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.
Mari Ness
Mari Ness is the author of Through Immortal Shadows Singing, Resistance and Transformation: On Fairy Tales, Dancing in Silver Lands, and, most recently, Let me tell you of that garden, a mini chapbook available from Sword and Kettle Press. Other work appears in Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex, Baffling, Reckoning, Strange Horizons, and multiple other zines and anthologies. More information can be found on an infrequently updated webpage, https://marikness.wordpress.com/, or on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/mariness.bsky.social. Mari lives in central Florida.
Maria Schrater
Maria Schrater is a writer & poet based in Chicago. Her work can be found in Apparition Lit, Sycorax Journal, Abyss & Apex, and in Air & Nothingness Press’s Wild Hunt and Future Perfect in Past Tense anthologies. She is also Poetry Editor for Apparition Literary Magazine and an associate SFWA member. She especially loves folklore and mythology and often works with retellings. When not writing, she can be found imitating bird calls in the woods. You can find her on Twitter @MariaSchrater or on her website mariaschrater.com.
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.