Authors
Alexander Etheridge
Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998. His poems have been featured in Wilderness House Literary Review, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999.
Allison Pottern
Allison Pottern is a writer and reader of all things speculative, with a background in publishing, event planning, publicity, and bookselling. Based in Massachusetts, she has taught craft and marketing workshops at Grub Street Inc., Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and the MetroWest Writers Guild. She is a 2023 Viable Paradise graduate and is currently working on a cli-fi novel, her pottery skills, and as a marketing coach for authors. Her writing can be found in The Rumpus, Trollbreath Magazine, The Personal Canons Cookbook, New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention, and forthcoming in Strange Horizons. http://pottern.com
Amanda Haimoto Rudd
Amanda Haimoto Rudd (she/her) is a queer Japanese-American writer of fantasy and SF, and a former Literature professor, stubbornly writing about queer joy in dark times. She currently lives in Houston where she works as a freelance writer. When she is not writing she enjoys painting, spending too much time on tumblr, and taking care of eleven rescue cats and a rose garden. She can be found at amandahaimotorudd.com and on Twitter @Amanda_Rudd.
anaum sajanlal
Anaum (they/she) is a genderqueer femme lesbian whose work centers queerness, survivorship, colonialism, and resistance. They are a settler on Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Mississauga lands, from lands colonially named India and Pakistan. Their work is published or forthcoming in the Hart House Review, BrainScramble Magazine, and League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause. She can be found in Tkaronto surrounded by their abundance of niece and nephew pets, or on Instagram at titus.christ.has.risen.
Andi C. Buchanan
Andi C. Buchanan lives and writes just outside Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Winner of Sir Julius Vogel Awards for From a Shadow Grave (Paper Road Press, 2019) and their short story “Girls Who Do Not Drown” (Apex, 2018), their fiction is also published in Fireside, Mermaids Monthly, Cossmass Infinities, and more. Their novel Sanctuary (Robot Dinosaur Press, 2022) tells the story of a queer, neurodivergent found-family who live in a haunted house. You can find Andi at andicbuchanan.org or @andicbuchanan on Twitter.
André Geleynse
André Geleynse (he/him) is a SFF writer, game master, and architectural technologist from unceded Algonquin Anishinaabeg territory near Ottawa, Ontario. He lives with his wife, two dogs, two cats, two horses, six chickens, and one snake. He is the Publication Manager for Tales & Feathers Magazine, and can occasionally be found on Twitter at @alisterscriven. His fiction has previously appeared in The Sprawl Mag and Wyldblood Press.
Angel Leal
Angel Leal (they/she) is a Latine, trans, neurodivergent writer whose previous work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Heartlines Spec, The Deadlands, Small Wonders, Apparition Lit, and elsewhere. They’ve been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling, Best of the Net, the Utopia Award, and are a coadmin of CALAMITOUS, a queer SFFH writing group. You can find them at angel-leal.com or on Bluesky @angelvleal.bsky.social.
Anna Madden
Anna Madden is a writer and Acquisitions Editor for Dark Matter Magazine and Dark Matter INK. Her fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Orion’s Belt, PseudoPod, and elsewhere. In free time, she makes birch forests out of stained glass. Follow her on Twitter/X @anna_madden_ or visit her website at annamadden.com.
Anna Quercia-Thomas
Anna Quercia-Thomas is a queer Hispanic American writer and academic currently based in Western Australia. She writes poetry and speculative fiction about found family, queer romance, and connection in dark times. Her work is featured in New Words Press, SWAMP Journal, and in the upcoming issue of Overland.
Anne Marie Lutz
Anne Marie Lutz is the author of three fantasy novels. Her Color Mage novels were re-issued in 2019 as Black Tide and Sword of Jashan. Her newest novel, Taylenor, was released in 2019. She has also written several short stories, appearing most recently in the Blood on the Blade sword & sorcery anthology, the Dark Recesses Press webzine, and the Sleepless Decompositions podcast. For more about Anne Marie’s work, you can check out her blog at annemariesblog.wordpress.com.