Authors
Elisabeth Kauffman
Elisabeth Kauffman is an author, an editor, a writing coach, and an artist. She edits novels and memoir for independent clients as well as publishing companies, and coaches writers to find their voices and connect to the magic in their creative lives. When she’s not making up stories, Elisabeth loves reading immersive fiction, doing puzzles, and playing co-op video games with her friends. Learn more about her at www.elisabethkauffman.com or email her at ekauffman@writingrefinery.com.
Elise Stephens
Elise Stephens credits much of her storytelling influence to a lifelong love of theater and childhood globetrotting. Much of her work focuses on themes of family, memory, and finding hope after a devastating loss. She is a first-place winner of Writers of the Future (2019), and her fiction has appeared in Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, Escape Pod, Writers of the Future Vol 35, and FIYAH, among others. Elise lives with her family in Seattle in a house with huge windows to supply the vast quantities of light she requires to stay happy. Elise is currently seeking representation on her next science fiction novel. Find her at www.EliseStephens.com.
Elizabeth Broadbent
Elizabeth Broadbent escaped the wilds of the Deep South for the Commonwealth of Virginia, where she lives with her three sons and husband. Her speculative fiction has appeared with, or is upcoming in, HyphenPunk, Tales to Terrify, Penumbric, If There's Anyone Left, and The Cafe Irreal. In summer of 2023, ELJ Edition published her novelette, Naked & Famous, about teenagers faking appearances of the South Carolina Lizardman. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Washington Post, Insider, and Time. In 2025, her novella, Blood Cypress, is set for publication with Raw Dog Screaming.
Elizabeth R McClellan
Elizabeth R. McClellan is a white disabled gender/queer neurospicy demisexual lesbian poet writing on unceded Quapaw and Chikshaka Yaki land. Kan work has appeared in many venues since 2009, including Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and most recently the light ’em up anthology available now from fifth wheel press, the November issue of beestung and the December art issue of Utopia Science Fiction. Kan work is forthcoming in libre lit. Kan debut collection of found poetry, IS MY CHAINSAW A HEART: 13 CENTOS, is available now from kith books. In kan other life, ka is an attorney and the creator of the Lou Swain Memorial Fund for Mid-South Immigration Advocates to assist immigrant and refugees experiencing domestic and sexual violence or family separation. Find ka on social media as @popelizbet and visit miamemphis.org to assist in the work.
Elizabeth Shack
Elizabeth Shack lives in central Illinois with her spouse, cat, and an expanding collection of art supplies and gardening tools. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Writers Resist, Daily Science Fiction, The MacGuffin, Drifting Sands, and other venues.
Elizabeth Zuckerman
Elizabeth Zuckerman has loved mythology since before she knew how to pronounce “Aphrodite.” Her fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, NonBinary Review, Timeless Tales Magazine, TANSTAAFL’s anthology Witches, Warriors, and Wyverns, and Footnote, where she was long-listed for the Charter Oak Award. She also read the audiobook for Kassandra Flamouri’s The Chalice and the Crown, in case you wondered what good her theater degree ever did her. She lives in Philadelphia with a charming trickster, makes doll clothes when she needs something to do with her hands, and occasionally livetweets movies at @LizCanTweet.
Elou Carroll
Elou Carroll writes spooky, whimsical, and strange stories. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Deadlands, Baffling Magazine, FOUND #2, Flash Fiction Online, Cosmic Horror Monthly and others. When she’s not hoarding skeleton keys and whispering with ghosts, she can be found editing Crow & Cross Keys, publishing all things dark and lovely, and loitering on instagram (@keychilde), bsky (@keychild.bsky.social) and the website formerly known as twitter (@keychild). She keeps a catalogue of her weird little wordcreatures on www. eloucarroll.com.
Emmie Christie
Emmie Christie’s work includes practical subjects, like feminism and mental health, and speculative subjects, like unicorns and affordable healthcare. Her portal fantasy novel A Caged and Restless Magic debuted February 2024. She has been published in Daily Science Fiction, Infinite Worlds Magazine, and Flash Fiction Online, among others. She also narrates audiobooks for Audible and loves bringing stories to life out loud as well as on the page. Find her at www.emmiechristie.com, her monthly newsletter, or on TikTok.
Eric Farrell
Eric Farrell (he/his) lives in Long Beach, California, where he works as a beer vendor by day and speculative fiction author by night. His writing credits stem from a career in journalism, where he reported for a host of local and metro newspapers in the greater Los Angeles area. He runs the website stygianspace.com and posts on Twitter @stygianspace. He has recent fiction in Etherea Magazine, Pulp Modern, and Synthetic Reality.
Eric Raglin
Eric Raglin (he/him) is a queer Nebraskan horror/Weird fiction writer. His short story collections include Nightmare Yearnings, Extinction Hymns (published by Brigids Gate Press), and Lonesome Pyres (published by Off Limits Pulp). He owns Cursed Morsels Press and has edited No Trouble at All (with Alexis DuBon), Bitter Apples, Shredded: A Sports and Fitness Body Horror Anthology, and Antifa Splatterpunk. Find him on Twitter, Bluesky, or Instagram @ericraglin1992.