Sodïq Oyèkànmí

Sodïq Oyèkànmí holds a B.A in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his works have been published/is forthcoming in Passages North, Poetry Wales, Lucent Dreaming, Strange Horizons, and North Dakota Quaterly. A 2022/23 Poetry Translation Centre UNDERTOW cohort, he won the 2022 Lagos/London Poetry Competition.

Sofia Ezdina

Sofia Ezdina is an emerging writer and immigrant queer woman who befriends stray animals and whispers eerie things. Her works appeared in Bridgit Gates, Enchanted Conversation, and Air and Nothingness Press. Her short stories were nominated for the Utopian Award and Pushcart Prize 2023.

Somto Ihezue

Somto Ihezue (He/Him) is a Nigerian–Igbo writer, editor, and filmmaker. He is a Creative Writing MFA student at the University of Maryland, and an alumnus of Clarion West, Tin House, Voodoonauts, and Milford SF workshops. His work was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (Sydney J. Bounds Awards), the Nommo Awards, the Afritondo Short Story Prize, the Utopia Awards, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the British Science Fiction Award. His works have appeared/forthcoming in Tor: Africa Risen, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, NIGHTMARE, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside Magazine, Podcastle, Escape Pod, PseudoPod, POETRY Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Flame Tree Press, and others.

He is the assistant editor of the Publishing Taught Me Anthology (SFWA & National Endowment for the Arts), and co-editor of the “Will This Be A Problem” Anthology. Visit his website at https://somtoihezue.com/.

Sophia Adamowicz

Sophia Adamowicz is a writer, tutor and medievalist based near Cambridge, UK. Her work, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in magazines including Cunning Folk, Crow & Cross Keys and Salt & Mirrors & Cats. When she's not tied to her desk, Sophia is a great advocate of karaoke. She collects ghost figurines and enjoys nothing more than spending time with her partner and their cats, Prufrock and Milquetoast.

Sophia Zhao

Sophia Zhao (she/her) is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Uncharted Mag, and The Colored Lens, among others. You can usually find her being a very bad New Yorker, or here, for that matter.

Stacie Turner

Stacie Turner grew up splitting her time between Maine and California. She lives in Connecticut now and can be found feeding stray cats in her garden when she's not writing. You can also find her short fiction in Abyss & Apex.

Stewart C Baker

Stewart C Baker is an academic librarian and author of speculative fiction and poetry, along with the occasional piece of interactive fiction. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Nature, Lightspeed, and Flash Fiction Online, among other places. Stewart was born in England, has spent time in South Carolina, Japan, and California (in that order), and now lives in Oregon with his family—although if anyone asks, he’ll usually say he’s from the Internet, where you can find him at https://infomancy.net.

Suzan Palumbo

Suzan Palumbo is a Trinidadian-Canadian, dark speculative fiction writer and editor. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula, Aurora, World Fantasy and Locus awards. She also co-founded the Ignyte Awards with L.D. Lewis and coedited the special Caribbean issue of Strange Horizons Magazine. Her award nominated dark fantasy/horror short story collection Skin Thief: Stories is out now from Neon Hemlock. Her novella Countess will be published by ECW Press on September 10th 2024. Her work has been published in Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy, The Deadlands, The Dark Magazine, PseudoPod, Fireside Fiction Quarterly, PodCastle, Anathema: Spec Fic from the Margins and other venues. She is officially represented by Michael Curry of the Donald Maass Literary Agency and can be found on instagram @gothicsyntax. When she isn't writing, she is often sketching, listening to new wave or wandering her local misty forests.

Sylvia Heike

Sylvia Heike is a fantasy and science fiction writer from Finland. Her stories have appeared in Flash Fiction Online, PodCastle, Nature Futures, and more. When not writing, she likes to go hiking and looking for birds. To find out more, visit https://www.sylviaheike.com or say hello on Twitter @sylviaheike.

T. K. Rex

T. K. Rex is a science fiction and fantasy author from the western states, whose short stories and poems can be found in roughly thirty publications, including Asimov's, Escape Pod and Strange Horizons. Raised by Wiccan parents of mostly British and Ashkenazi descent, who joined the fights for whales, redwoods, gay rights and medical marijuana during her formative years, T. K. now resides in San Francisco, California. They're a member of the Writers Grotto and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association; and an alumni of the Futurescapes, Taos Toolbox and Clarion workshops.