Erin K. Wagner

Erin K. Wagner is a professor by trade, a medievalist by discipline, and a writer of speculative fiction by design.

She lives in upstate New York, a storied and story-making place, but her roots are in Appalachia, planted in rural southeast Ohio. Presently, she teaches an array of literature and composition courses in the SUNY system as an associate professor.

Her fiction is interested in examining how humans explain the inexplicable, and her writing has appeared in a number of magazines, including Apex, Clarkesworld, and Nightmare. Her second novella, An Unnatural Life, was released by Tor.com, and her short story collection is forthcoming from Aqueduct Press. She is an active member of SFWA. Her website is www.erinkwagner.com.

Erin Keating

Erin Keating is a grant writer at an arts education nonprofit. She earned her B.A. in creative writing and literature at Roanoke College. While earning her history M.A. at Drew University, she spent most of her time in the archives reading as many Shakespeare-related texts she could find. She has a library card from the Bodleian Library, Library of Congress, Folger Shakespeare Library, and, of course, her local public library. When she's not writing, she dabbles in bass guitar, rock climbing, language learning, and video games. Her fiction can also be found in Metaphorosis and Luna Station Quarterly.

Eugenia Triantafyllou

Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her work has been nominated for the Ignyte, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and she is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can find her stories in Reactor (formerly Tor.com), Uncanny, Strange Horizons, and other venues. She currently lives in Athens with a boy and a dog. Find her on Twitter or Bluesky @foxesandroses, her IG @eugeniatriantafyllou, or her website http://www.eugeniatriantafyllou.com.

Eva Papasoulioti

Eva Papasoulioti is a Greek writer of speculative fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Solarpunk Magazine, Heartlines Spec, Radon Journal and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards. She lives in Athens with her spouse and their two cats. You can find her on X/twitter and bluesky @epapasoulioti and on her blog plothopes.com.

Ewen Ma

Ewen Ma (they/he) is a SFF writer-poet, editor, theatre deviser, and a recovering former Visual Cultures academic. Their work can be found in venues including Uncanny Magazine, The Deadlands, Fusion Fragment, Apparition Literary, Anathema, and Liminality, as well as in the anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity. An alumnus of Clarion West and Tin House, Ewen was also shortlisted for Moniack Mhor's Emerging Writer Award and the Future Worlds Prize. Ewen was made in Hong Kong, grew up between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and is currently based in the UK. Catch Ewen online at http://ewenma.com and on Bluesky at @ewenmaer.bsky.social.

F. J. Bergmann

F. J. Bergmann is the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com) and freelances as a copy editor and book designer. She lives in Wisconsin and fantasizes about tragedies on or near exoplanets. She was a Writers of the Future winner. Her work has appeared in Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov’s SF, and elsewhere in the alphabet. While lacking academic literary qualifications, she is kind to those so encumbered. She used to work with horses. She thinks imagination can compensate for anything.

Faith Allington

Faith Allington (she/her) is a genre-blending writer in Seattle, where she admires fungi and drinks too much tea. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online, Haven Spec Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and Apex. She can be found at www.faithallington.com.

Frances Koziar

Frances Koziar has published work in over 90 different literary magazines and anthologies, including Daily Science Fiction and Best Canadian Essays 2021. She has also served as an author panelist, a fiction contest judge, and a microfiction editor at a literary magazine, and she is seeking an agent. She is a young (disabled) retiree and a social justice advocate, and she lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

G.E. Woods

G.E. Woods (they/she) first ran into the arms of horror as a 5-year-old working in haunted houses. Queer, nonbinary, and invisibly disabled, they are a poet, dancer, and writes SFF/H and memoir. She is a 2023 Rhysling Finalist and has work published in STRANGE HORIZONS, YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY, and MOONFLOWERS & NIGHTSHADE. She enjoys talking to the trees near their home. Find her at gewoods.com.

Gabrielle Johansen

Gabrielle Johansen creates pieces of speculative fiction and fantasy from her Charlotte, NC home. While she was born in Boston, she has lived in the South most of her life. She has never developed an affinity for grits, but she does love biscuits. Gabrielle is an avid reader, boardgamer and sometime-crafter. Her main partners in all of the above are her wonderful husband and terrific kid. Sometimes her two cats try to join the games, but their strategies mostly consist of knocking pieces off the board.