Authors
Diana Dima
Diana Dima is a writer living in Canada. Her short fiction has appeared in Augur, Strange Horizons, khōréō, and elsewhere. You can find her online at www.dianadima.com.
E.M. Linden
E.M. Linden (she/her) is a speculative fiction writer from Aotearoa New Zealand who likes coffee, books, owls, and the sea. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, Flash Fiction Online, the Locus Recommended Reading List (2022), and various other places. She is online at emlinden.blog or @emlinden.bsky.social.
Eleanor Ball
Eleanor Ball is a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Her poetry is featured or forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, Orion’s Belt, Small Wonders, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere, and she’s a first reader at Flash Point Science Fiction. Come say hi at eleanor-ball.com and @eleanorball.bsky.social.
Elis Montgomery
Elis Montgomery is a speculative fiction writer from Vancouver, Canada. She is a member of SFWA and Codex. When she’s not writing, she’s usually hanging upside down in an aerial arts class or a murky cave. Find her there or at elismontgomery.com.
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.