Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the dark fiction collections The Children’s Horror and Pre-Approved for Haunting, the novellas The Nut House, Night of the Witch-Hunter, and JK-LOL, as well as the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare. His debut sci/horror novel Abducted was released by Dark Matter Ink in August 2025. In addition, he is the editor and publisher of the anthology And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel, and runs the monthly interview column "Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author" in Shortwave Magazine. His 2023 short story "The Scare Groom" was selected for Best Horror of the Year Volume 16. Visit him at patrickbarb.com.

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Dustin P Brown is a Michigan-born, Spain-based poet and prose author. His BA in Creative Writing is from Western Michigan University, and he currently works as an editor and interpreter. He’s recently published in Borderless journal, Bacopa Literary, and Lit Shark. He can be found on Bluesky at @dpbrownwrites.bsky.social, Instagram at @dpbrownwrites, and author site https://dustinpbrown.wixsite.com/author


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Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in over seventy journals, including F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, and Lightspeed. For more about her work, including her poetry collections, The Gates of Never, Bounded by Eternity, From Voyages Unreturning, Xenoforming, and To Love Unquietly, please see www.deborahldavitt.com.

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Viviana De Cecco is a writer, translator, and visual artist. She works as a content writer for Tint Journal. She was the second-place winner of Sunlight Press Magazine’s 2024 Photography Contest. Her visual art and photography appeared in Zoetic Press, Newrosis, Spellbinder Magazine, Pink Hydra, among others. Her fiction and translations have also appeared in various liteerary and speculative magazines, including The Seize Press, Grim&Gilded, Dark Holme Publishing, Poets' Choice, Azonal Translation, among others. Her work can be found at: https://vivianadececco.altervista.org/

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Nicholas De Marino has tinnitus and used to collect vintage sofubi. Monthly column [fnord] in foofaraw. See Dreams & Nightmares, Rat Bag Lit, and Hell Itself for truths, half-truths, and poetry. Big-up SFPA, Codex, and Weird Christmas.

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L. Fox is a writer and an archaeologist by sweat, blood, and training. Find her other publications in multiple volumes of Luna Station Quarterly, Shacklebound Books’ Twisted Trails Anthology, the Tales to Terrify Podcast, and Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine.

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Lora Gray (they/them) is a non-binary speculative fiction writer and poet from Northeast Ohio, and has been published in Uncanny Magazine, F&SF, and Strange Horizons among other places. Their poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award. You can find Lora online at lora-gray.com

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Dawn Holloway can be found on BlueSky and Instagram as @HollowayHideout.

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Amy Power Jansen is a South African living in the Netherlands. A heterodox economist working in development finance. A specfic writer of stories that have been published by presses such as Flame Tree, and magazines such as Deep Magic and Compelling Science Fiction.

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R. Mac Jones is a poet and illustrator. He is the author of the speculative poetry chapbook Astrosommelier, published by Bottlecap Press.






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Michelle Koubek is an artist who creates digital art, acrylic paintings, and charcoal sketches. She likes experimenting with bold ideas and has written and illustrated several books. Her most recent creation is LIGHT, a psych thriller/horror novel with hand-drawn, glowing illustrations throughout the book. Learn more about her at www.michellekoubek.com.

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John Leahy is the author of three novels—Harvest, CROGIAN, and Unity. He has received three Honourable Mentions in the Writers of the Future Contest, and his short story "Singers" appeared in Flame Tree Publishing’s 2017 Pirates and Ghosts anthology, alongside work by writers including Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. P. Lovecraft, and H. G. Wells. A past prize-winner at Listowel Writers’ Week, his story "Do You Dream of Oil?" has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Killarney, Ireland.

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Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but now lives in Pittsburgh. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and winner of the AnLab Readers' Award, Asimov's Readers' Award, Dwarf Stars Award, Elgin Award, Rhysling Award, and Utopia Award. Her credits include American Scholar, the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 119 haiku that appeared in Science, and an epic told in poetry, “The Sign of the Dragon.”

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Gerri Leen lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. She's passionate about horse racing, tea, and collecting encaustic art and raku pottery. She has stories and poems in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, Strange Horizons, Dark Matter and others. She’s recently published her first poetry collection, Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness, and had her first novel, Bluegrass Dreams Aren’t for Free, released by WolfSinger Publications. See more at gerrileen.com or Instagram @leengerri.

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Richard Magahiz tries to live an ordered life in harmony with all things natural and created but one that follows unexpected paths. He's spent much of his time wrangling computers as a day job but now when he's not making music he is writing speculative and mainstream poems. This he has written for over twenty years, and has received nominations for Rhysling, Dwarf Stars, Pushcart, and Best of the Web awards. His chapbook collection The Reducing Flame was published in 2025. His website is at https://zeroatthebone.us/.

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Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published. Some recent credits include cover art for Typehouse Magazine Jan. 2022 and interior art in Dreams & Nightmares Magazine Jan. 2022 as well as poetry in Page & Spine April 2022. Website is www.dennymarshall.com.

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Warren Muzak is an Ontario, Canada–based illustrator specializing in horror and sci-fi imagery. A seasoned, self-taught professional, he has created artwork for numerous horror and science fiction anthologies, earning a reputation as a visual storyteller who brings mood, movement, and emotion to every piece.

Inspired by legendary artists like Bernie Wrightson, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, and Arthur Rackham, as well as classic horror publications such as Creepy, Eerie, and 1950s EC comics like Tales from the Crypt, his work combines vintage atmosphere with dynamic, contemporary energy. He has sold his work to and been commissioned by multiple publishers of horror anthologies and fantasy novels such as: Darkholme Publishing (UK), JayHenge Publishing, Last Girls Club, Hiraeth Publishing, Penumbric Spec Fiction Magazine, James Maxey, Dug Up Magazine and Dark Moon Rising Publications to name a few.

Whether working in pen and ink, watercolor, and pencil, or digitally with a WACOM Cintiq and Krita, Warren seamlessly blends traditional craft with modern digital techniques. When he’s not crafting dark, otherworldly scenes, he’s likely hunting for vintage comics or expanding his collection of classic Lionel trains.

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Nick Porisch lives and writes in Minneapolis. More of his work can be found in MENACE Magazine, Chatterbox Literary, the NoSleep Podcast, and beyond.

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Veronica Reinhart is a lifelong New Englander who spends her days researching neurodegenerative diseases and her evenings daydreaming about worlds that exist only in her head. She has been passionate about character-driven speculative fiction since childhood and has recently started to release her writing into the wild. She won first place in Uncharted Magazine’s Novel Excerpt Contest in 2024 and was published in Marrow Magazine in 2025. She can be found at www.veronicareinhart.com.

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A freelance journalist and photographer, Sonali Roy wears several other hats including painter, 3-D art designer, music composer, and singer though the sudden demise of her 8-yr old canine friend Fuchoo baffled her. Devoted to vegan diet, Sonali enjoys brainstorming healthy recipes in the kitchen. She also loves creative writing.

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Ron Sanders is an L.A.-based author, poet, and illustrator.





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Carl Scharwath has appeared globally with 180+ journals selecting his writing or art. Carl has published four poetry books and his latest book is The World Went Dark, published by Alien Buddha Press. Carl has four photography books, published with Praxis and CreatiVingenuitiy. His photography was exhibited in the Mount Dora and Leesburg Centers for the Arts. Carl is currently an art editor at Glitterati and former editor for Minute Magazine. He was nominated for four The Best of the Net Awards (2022-25) and two different 2023 Pushcart Nominations for poetry and a short story.

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J.F. Sebastian is a queer, autistic writer originally from the South of France, now residing in Toronto, Canada. Writing in English, and under various pen names, is not merely a creative outlet but also a way for them to delve into and express the layers of their multifaceted identity.

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Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award® and Elgin Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares, A Collection of Dreamscapes, The Gravity of Existence, and with Geneve Flynn, Lee Murray, and Angela Yuriko Smith, Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in numerous venues worldwide, including Interstellar Flight Magazine, New Myths, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect @christinasng.

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Rina Song is a writer and speculative fiction lover based out of California. When not writing, she has a day job involving computers. Her work is published or forthcoming in Dirty Magick Magazine, The Lorelei Signal, and In Another Time Magazine, among others.

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Amy Xiang Zhang has lived in many places. The most recent is Seattle. Her dream is to be the old lady that all the neighborhood dogs love.