Colleen Anderson lives in Vancouver, BC where she searches for mermaids. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart, Aurora, Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards, and has received Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants for writing. Her works have appeared in numerous venues such as Polu Texni, Shadow Atlas and HWA Poetry Showcases. A Body of Work, Black Shuck Books, UK (short fiction) is available online and her poetry collection, I Dreamed a World, is forthcoming from LVP Publications.

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Nicola Brayan is a young, aspiring artist from Sydney, Australia. She has rediscovered her passion for art during the pandemic. She uses vivid colours and contrast to capture emotions and expression. Her work is a love letter to what it means to be human. More of her work can be found on Instagram at @an.aesthetic.mirror.

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Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son. Her prize-winning poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations and has appeared in over fifty journals, including F&SF and Asimov’s. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog and Galaxy’s Edge. For more about her work, including her poetry collections, The Gates of Never and Bounded by Eternity, please see www.edda-earth.com.

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Alex De-Gruchy is a writer, editor and narrative designer whose work has covered comic books, prose, videogames, poetry, film, radio and other audio, and more. Find out more at www.alexdegruchy.wordpress.com and www.twitter.com/AlexDeGruchy. His debut prose novel, The Eldritch Affair of the Cosmic Ne'er-do-wells: A Roustabouts Brouhaha, is available from publisher Markosia from May 2022.

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Shikhar Dixit is a writer/illustrator whose two newest stories in print can be found in Weird Horror #1 and Space & Time #139, both magazines available on Amazon. He has sold over thirty stories and one hundred illustrations to such venues as Dark Regions, Strange Horizons, Not One of Us, The Darker Side (anthology edited by John Pelan), Songs From Dead Singers (anthology edited by Michael Kelly) and two Barnes & Noble anthologies. He lives with his family in the deep, dark heart of New Jersey, where he is currently at work on his first novel. To learn more, visit his website at SlipOfThePen.com


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Adele Gardner (gardnercastle.com, none/they, Mx.) is a fiction writer & award-winning poet with a poetry collection, Halloween Hearts, forthcoming from Jackanapes Press and work in Analog, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, and Daily Science Fiction. This genderfluid night owl loves libraries, samurai films, and reading comics with cats. Adele serves as literary executor for father, mentor, and namesake Delbert R. Gardner.

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Joshua Grasso is a professor of English at East Central University in the middle of Oklahoma. He teaches courses in all the great stuff that inspires his stories--ancient world literature and British literature from Beowulf and beyond. He has written five indie novels, and his stories have recently appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Mythic, and Leading Edge.


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Tim Hildebrandt is a writer in Indianapolis, Indiana. His short stories have appeared in Consequence Forum, Corvus Review, the Boston Literary Magazine, and others. You can see his work at: https://www.instagram.com/ax_beckett




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C. I. I. Jones is a writer of horror and crime thrillers. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, Courtney and their hound, Edgar Allen Pup.


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Growing up in a traditional Midwestern Christian household, Kaitlyn Lynch started her writing career at an age so early she was still scared by Scooby Doo. Somehow, she now finds herself deeply entrenched in horror and true crime. With the help of Full Sail University and KMP Entertainment, she's learned to shape her craft and create modern day fairytales. Through the lens of the Gothic Celestial, her goal is to create stories which touch our hearts and enact change just as deeply as the stories we all told as children. You can read her fiction work in various anthologies and lit mags.


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Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published. Some recent credits include cover art for Fifth Di... Sept 2021, interior art in Dreams & Nightmares #118 Sept. 2021, & poetry in Shelter Of Daylight Autumn 2021. In 2020 his website celebrated 20 years on the web. Also, in 2020 his artwork is for sale for the first time. The link is on his website. Website is www.dennymarshall.com.

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Bryan Miller is a Minneapolis-based writer and performer. His fiction has appeared on the Drabblecast, in Intrinsick Magazine and Dream of Shadows, and in the anthologies Shadowy Natures and The Monsters We Forgot, among others. His other work has appeared on the CBS Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Sirius XM radio.

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Kurt Newton's more recent works have appeared in Cafe Irreal, Not Deer Magazine, and past issues of Penumbric. His third collection of short stories, The Music of Murder, is now available from Unnerving Books. His fourth collection, Bruises, will be published later this year by Lycan Valley Press.

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Ngo Binh Anh Khoa is a teacher of English in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In his free time, he enjoys daydreaming and writing dark verses for entertainment. His poems have appeared in Weirdbook, Star*Line, Spectral Realms and other venues.

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Jesper Nordqvist, aka 'Ragathol', is a comic artist and illustrator from Sweden, specialized in fantasy and SF comedy and drama. He's been making a lot more comics since creating Mondo Mecho, most of which are available at gumroad.com/ragathol.

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Elby Rogers is a self-taught artist of the macabre hailing from the, by now, famous state of Delaware in the United States.



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James Rumpel is a retired mathematics teacher who has enjoyed spending some of his free time trying to turn some of the many odd ideas in his brain into stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary.



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Carl Scharwath has appeared globally with 150+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, plays or art photography (His photography was featured on the cover of 6 journals.) Two poetry books, Journey To Become Forgotten (Kind of a Hurricane Press) and Abandoned (ScarsTv) have been published. His first photography book was recently published by Praxis. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine, a competitive runner and 2nd degree black-belt in Taekwondo.

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Ritiksha Sharma is an artist, poet and occasional prose writer based in India. She completed her masters in History from the University of Delhi during the pandemic; and is interested in the complexity of caliginous splinters of people, anti-heroes, old havelis and their stories, sharp piano notes, the number 99 and colonial cemeteries. Doodling one-eyed creatures and writing about them keeps her going; it's her soul-food.

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Jennifer Silvey lives in the St. Louis area with her husband, their two cats, and their dog. She studied digital film for her bachelor's and creative writing for her master's. She earned both degrees at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO. She worked for six years as a newscast producer. She is now a freelance content writer. She is on a quest to find the best sourdough recipes.

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Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (2017), A Collection of Dreamscapes (2020), and Tortured Willows (2021). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art have appeared in numerous venues worldwide, including Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect @christinasng.

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Carl Taylor resides with his wife and daughters in New Jersey. Carl’s short fiction has been published in many venues, including the September/October 2021 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and in issues #139 and #141 of Space & Time Magazine. His Twitter handle is @oscilloscopelit.