Authors
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.
Spencer Nitkey
Spencer Nitkey is a writer, researcher, and educator. He lives in Philadelphia with his witch wife and a dog named after a French postmodernist. His writing has appeared in Apex Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Lightspeed Magazine, Nature Futures, Weird Horror, and many others. You can find more about him on his website, spencernitkey.com.
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.
T. R. Siebert
T. R. Siebert is a speculative fiction writer from Germany. Her short fiction has been published in Flash Fiction Online, Escape Pod and Fusion Fragment. When she's not busy writing, she can be found attempting to grow vegetables on her balcony or looking at pictures of cute dogs. Tweet at her @TR_Siebert.
Tadayoshi Kohno
Tadayoshi Kohno (he/him) is a professor, science fiction writer, and karate instructor from Seattle, Washington. He is the author of Our Reality: A Novella, co-editor of Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence, and co-author of Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications. He is on Twitter at @yoshi_kohno and online at https://www.yoshikohno.net.
Tania Chen
Tania Chen is a Chinese-Mexican queer writer. Their work was selected for Brave New Weird Anthology by Tenebrous Press and has also appeared in Unfettered Hexes by Neon Hemlock, Apparition Lit, Strange Horizons, Pleiades Magazine, Baffling Magazine and Longleaf Review, among others. They are a graduate of the Clarion West Novella Bootcamp workshop of 2021 and a recipient of the HWA’s Dark Poetry Scholarship. Currently, they are assistant editor at Uncanny Magazine and can be found on twitter @archistratego or mastodon at @archistratego@wandering.shop.