Chloe Smith

Chloe Smith works as a middle-school teacher, librarian, and copyeditor, and writes science fiction and fantasy stories despite all that. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she lived in Texas and Washington states, New York City, and rural France before coming back to California. Her short fiction has appeared in Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Daily Science Fiction, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. Her debut novella, Virgin Land, came out from Luna Press Publishing in 2023.

Christi Nogle

Christi Nogle is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated and Bram Stoker Award® winning first novel Beulah as well as three short fiction collections: The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future; Promise: A Collection of Weird Science Fiction; and One Eye Opened in That Other Place.

Her work has also appeared in over fifty publications including Strange Horizons, Apex, PseudoPod, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye.

She is co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Stoker-nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) and co-editor with Ai Jiang of Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia (Shortwave Publishing).

Follow her at https://christinogle.com and on across social media under the username christinogle.

Claire McNerney

Claire McNerney is an actor, student, and writer from California, where she currently attends UCSD. She enjoys, among other things, sitting outside in the evenings. Follow her on Twitter @claire_mcnerney or Instagram @o.h.c.l.a.i.r.e to say hello and see what she does next!

Clara Burghelea

Clara Burghelea has published two poetry collections: The Flavor of the Other (Dos Madres Press 2020) and Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press 2021). Her poems and translations have been published in Goalf Coast, Delos, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. She is the Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation and a thirdyear PhD student in Literature at University of Texas at Dallas.

Colleen Anderson

Colleen Anderson is an Aurora, Rhysling, Dwarf Stars and Elgin award nominee, with work published in seven countries, in such venues as Andromeda Spaceways, Space and Time, and the award-winning Shadow Atlas and Water: Sirens, Selkies & Sea Monsters. Her poem, Machine (r)Evolution is part of Tenebrous Press’s 2023 Brave New Weird. She lives in Vancouver, BC and is a Ladies of Horror Fiction, Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant recipient. She is author of two fiction collections, Embers Amongst the Fallen and A Body of Work, and two poetry collections, I Dreamed a World and The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams. colleenanderson.wordpress.com.

Connie La-Huynh

Connie La-Huynh is a writer with a penchant for the dark, strange, and subversive. She lives in a cottage in the foothills of a California mountain with her husband, many books, and an old cat who guards the house from all things that go bump in the night.

Corey Farrenkopf

Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. His short stories have been published in Tiny Nightmares, The Southwest Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Catapult, Reckoning, Bourbon Penn, Uncharted, and elsewhere. He is the Fiction Editor for The Cape Cod Poetry Review. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com.

Courtney Floyd

Courtney Floyd grew up in New Mexico, where she learned to write between tarantula turf wars and apocalyptic dust storms. Despite spending several years as a teen touring with her own family band, Courtney never learned to harmonize. Her sisters were lovely and kept her around anyway. Courtney’s short work can be found in publications including Fireside Magazine, Small Wonders, and Wizards in Space. Her audio drama, The Way We Haunt Now, is available on all major podcast platforms. Find her online at courtney-floyd.com and on social media as @cannfloyd.

Cressida Roe

Cressida Roe is a multiracial writer of speculative and literary fiction, whose stories appear in Apex, Fusion Fragment, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, and elsewhere. Her work has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for the Best Small Fictions. See more at cressidaroe.wordpress.com or @eggandcressida.bsky.social.

Crystal Lynn Hilbert

I live in the backwoods of western PA with my partner and a small pack of (in their opinion) wild animals. I accidentally collect a very specific model of vintage blender and make a hobby of finding new hobbies. One day my slowly amassed hoard of crochet blankets may consume my home. My short stories have appeared in Apex Magazine, Cossmass Infinities and in the Women in Practical Armor Anthology. You can find the rest of my writing credits at clhilbert.wordpress.com/publications/.