S.T. Eleu

Raised in Vegas then exiled to Chicago, S. T. Eleu (they, them) has been a musician, teacher, and consummate Vulcan. Autism is their default universe, and though sparsely populated, is a glorious place to escape to, write in, and display an impressive collection of action figures. Their most recent publications were in Divergents Magazine, New Feathers Anthology, Star*Line, and Aphelion Webzine.

Sagan Yee

Sagan Yee (he/they) is a media artist and organizer whose creative practice includes animation, games, interactive installations, and speculative fiction. Their writing has appeared in places like Apex Magazine, Tales & Feathers, and Lightspeed. Marine biology and ecosystems provide the inspiration for many of his stories. Find more of his work at saganyee.com or catch them (for now) on Twitter @SaganYee.

Sandra Pope

Sandra Pope is an artist, author and in a previous chapter, was a high school teacher in California. She graduated from UCLA in fiction writing in 1972. In 2008, she penned GROWING UP WITHOUT THE GODDESS, a memoir about returning to North Carolina to discover her childhood abusers. For ten years, her pen fell silent. Then, during long walks through rural land debased by hog farms and abused by industrial farming, she listened to the land and honored its voice in poems. In 2021, Sandra's poem, “The Day After Christmas” was a finalist in the NC Poet Laureate Contest, judged by North Carolina's Poet Laureate.

Sarah Cannavo

Sarah Cannavo is a writer haunting southern New Jersey, the home of the Jersey Devil (full disclosure: she hasn't run into him yet). Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Star*Line, The Litarary Hatchet, JOURN-E, and Dreams and Nightmares, and is forthcoming in Pulp Modern and parABnormal. Her poetry has been nominated for the 2020 and 2021 Rhysling Awards and the 2022 Dwarf Stars Awards. Her story “Unreality” and novella Wolf of the Pines are available now on Amazon. She's been reported to post on her website and been sighted tweeting @moodilymusing.

Shana Ross

Shana Ross is a new transplant to Edmonton, Alberta and Treaty Six Territory. Qui transtulit sustinet. A Pushcart and Rhysling nominated author, her work has recently appeared in Cutbank Literary Journal, Laurel Review, Phantom Kangaroo, Radon Journal and more. She serves as an editor for Luna Station Quarterly and a critic for Pencilhouse.org. She is almost a year into a project of befriending her local magpies; they like unsalted peanuts.

Sharang Biswas

Sharang Biswas is a writer, artist, and award-winning game designer based in NYC. His nonfiction writing has appeared in publications such as Eurogamer, Unwinnable, Broken Pencil, First Person Scholar, and more, while his fiction & poetry has been published by Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Augur and Baffling, and has been selected twice to appear in the annual We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction anthology. He is the co-editor of Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games and recently released Tome of Dark Delights, a collection of D&D-inspired erotica. His upcoming novella The Iron Below Remembers is due in 2025.

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.