J.W. Bodden is an LGBTQ+ speculative fiction writer from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. When not prepping for doomsday, he's a dog dad, content creator, and unapologetic wanderer of alternate worlds. You can find him on X: @jwbodden and Bluesky: @jwbodden.bsky.social.

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Kelly Bowen (she/her/hers) is a musician turned multi-genre writer. Her penchant for the stage evolved to performing stories, which spawned publications - Speculative fiction: Bards and Sages Quarterly. Memoir: Transformation; The Whole Alphabet. Poetry: Synonyms for Living Anthology; Dialogue; A Year in Ink, Vol 15 & Vol 17; Poet’s Underground; the San Diego Poetry Annual, 2020-2021 & 2022-2023 & 2023-2024. Relentless driven, when not writing, she can be found shopping her first novel, throwing pottery, teaching yoga and enjoying nature. Kellybowenarts.com.

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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 / @keydoesbookstuff), 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.

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M.C. Childs’ poems have appeared in many magazines and collections, and won awards from the Speculative Fiction Poetry Association. Prof. Childs’ award-winning urban design books include Foresight and Design, The Zeon Files: Art and Design of Historic Route 66 Signs, Urban Composition, and Squares: A Public Space Design Guide.

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Emmie Christie’s work includes practical subjects, like feminism and mental health, and speculative subjects, like unicorns and affordable healthcare. Her novel A Caged and Restless Magic debuted February 2024. She has been published in Factor Four Magazine, Small Wonders, and Flash Fiction Online, among others. She also narrates short stories and loves bringing stories to life out loud as well as on the page. Find her at www.emmiechristie.com, her monthly newsletter, or BlueSky.

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Vincenzo Cohen is an Italian multidisciplinary social artist. He graduated in Painting from Fine Arts Academy and subsequently achieved the degree in Archaeology from "La Sapienza" University in Rome. His production revolves around issues related to social and environmenatal justice.

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Andy Dibble writes from Madison, Wisconsin and works as a healthcare IT consultant. He has supported the electronic medical record of large healthcare systems in six countries. His work appears in Writers of the Future, Diabolical Plots, Mysterion, and others. He edited Strange Religion: Speculative Fiction of Spirituality, Belief, & Practice. You can find him at andydibble.com.

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Jackie Fenn writes speculative fiction, sci-fi and technology thrillers, informed by her experience as a professional futurist and emerging technology analyst. She loves exploring the logical implications of speculative story elements, be they future technologies, superpowers, visiting aliens, or the afterlife. In her debut thriller Gone Viral (written as J.A. Knight), a computer science graduate accidentally unleashes a weapon of mass manipulation and must outsmart his own creation before it falls into the hands of forces who will stop at nothing to control it.

When not writing, Jackie enjoys martial arts, walking her dog Dexter, making spreadsheets, and researching the mysteries of the human mind. Find her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-fenn-6567183/.

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Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of a novel (Can't Find My Way Home) and two collections (Sinking, Singing and People Change), all published by Aqueduct Press. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in such publications as Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Uncanny, Escape Pod, and Not One of Us.

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My name is Andrew Graber and I was born and raised in the United States of America. Besides creating art, I also like to write short stories and poems.






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Hannah Greer’s work has appeared in PseudoPod, Solarpunk Magazine, Radon Journal, and more. She’s a first reader for Fusion Fragment, hoards books, and competes in combat sports. She resides in North Carolina with her partner, and her home is run by a trio of cats, a small flock of pigeons, and several geckos. Find her on Bluesky @hannahgreer.bsky.social or on her website, hannahgreer.carrd.co

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Paula Hammond is a professional writer & artist based in Wales. Her fiction has been nominated for the Eugie Award, the Pushcart Prize, and a BSFA award. Her new Sherlock Holmes collection Eliminate the Impossible is available now from MX Publishing. She would be delighted if you could share pictures of puppies with her on twitter @writer_paula

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Michelle Hartman is the author of four poetry books, four chapbooks, the most recent a winner of the John and Miriam Morris Memorial Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Crannog, Galway Review, The Atlanta Review, Penumbra, Poem, Southwestern American Review, Carve and many more. She is the former editor of Red River Review, as well as the owner of Hungry Buzzard Press.

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Brian D. Hinson abandoned an unfulfilling career in 1999 to take up part-time work and visit 40-some countries in the backpacker fashion. He slowed life even further to settle in rural New Mexico, USA with his wife and three pit bulls to write science fiction. Short story “Disposable Gabriel,” in December 2023 Cast of Wonders, made Nerds of a Feather’s recommendation list for the 2024 Hugo. “Distance and Family and Death” is featured in Amazing Stories’ Best of 2024. Other stories in Pseudopod, Andromeda Spaceways, On Spec Magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, Hyphen Punk, and more. https://www.briandhinson.com

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E.J. Kavounas is a Los Angeles-based writer whose fiction appears in Infinite Worlds, Uncharted Magazine, and Amazing Stories including in their Best of 2024 anthology. An investment banker turned investor and producer, his credits include the feature film Hero Mode (streaming on STARZ) and the audio drama Broken Road on Apple and Spotify. He holds a BA in English Literature from Middlebury College and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a graduate of the Odyssey and Bread Loaf workshops. With a penchant for outdoor adventures, you can catch him on the trails in the Santa Monica Mountains or at Recursor.tv/about-ej-kavounas. Follow him on Instagram @ejkavounas10.

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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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Mike Morgan was born in London, but not in any of the interesting parts. He moved to Japan at the age of 30 and lived there for many years. Nowadays, he's based in Iowa, and enjoys family life with his wife and two young children. If you like his writing, be sure to check out his website: https://PerpetualStateofMildPanic.wordpress.com or follow him on Blue Sky, where he is: https://bsky.app/profile/culttvmike.bsky.social.

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Camellia Paul has a Masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, India with specialisation in Canadian literature and translation studies. She is also a member of the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland. She has recently presented award-winning research on “Bengal owlscapes” in an international conference at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. Camellia currently works as a Senior Instructional Designer in an ed-tech multinational ed-tech MNC. Prior to this, she has worked in print media and publishing houses of international repute, and been part of various academic translation projects. Her works of translation, fiction, and nonfiction have been published by The Antonym and San Antonio Review, and Pink Disco Magazine. She is an award-winning visual artist with her poetry and art regularly appearing in books and magazines, as well as online journals like The Fabulist, Livewire, San Antonio Review, The Passionfruit Review, Solstitia, The Fantastic Other, among others. She also has published photographs in The Telegraph, Kolkata, The City Key, and Setu. She has designed academic book covers and posters for international conferences, published by educational and research institutes, such as Sahitya Akademi, Jadavpur University, and Ashoka University. She has recently won the “Best Artist Award” from KPR International (India, Bangladesh, and Nepal). As an independent practitioner of the visual arts and photography, she extensively works on the interface of narratives from the everyday in a pre- and post-pandemic world across rural and urban spaces. Apart from being passionate about Nature, art, and owls, Camellia loves reading, listening to music, and exploring cultures. Contact email: casperpeace@gmail.com

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Brian Malachy Quinn uses watercolors, pen and ink, digital media, block prints, and etchings. As an artist he has won 23 international juried awards in last 26 months and sold 45 illustrations to date. He has always created art since early childhood. His style can be surreal for speculative fiction or literary fiction, or realistic for his fallback of lion paintings. He is compelled to create art and does so every day and finds it as a way to put aside his worries and stresses and produce "good brain chemicals". His online portfolio is at brianquinnstudio.com, and he is open to all projects.

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Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion (siya/they) is a Filipina Asian-American, certified 200-Hour Yoga Teacher, and Returned United States Peace Corps Volunteer (Thailand 130) who graduated from Seton Hill University with a MA in Art Therapy. Art therapy is their instrument for healing the weights of cultural somatic impressions and empowering their communities. @twiichii X https://twiichii.wordpress.com/

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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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Ritiksha Sharma is a person. She enjoys scribbling and doodling. Her work has appeared in Illustrated Worlds Magazine, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, The Stygian Lepus Magazine, and Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature. Some of her poetry is forthcoming in the Illustrated Horror Poetry Anthology curated by Graveside Press. Reach out to her on X @ritzisharmaa.

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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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D.A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as NY, Hawai’i, various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached. Her work appears in publications such as Clarkesworld, Analog, Uncanny, Escape Pod and anthologies such as Make Shift, Ride the Star Wind and Life Beyond Us. Select stories can be read in German, Spanish, Vietnamese, Estonian, French and Japanese translation. Her stories have been selected for The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories and The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time Stories. Her poetry has been nominated for the Dwarf Star, Rhysling, Best of the Net and Pushcart Awards. Her sci-fi novella Ellipses will be published in 2026 by Infinivox SF. She can be found on Bluesky: https://spires.bsky.social and on her website: daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com.

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Tamika Thompson is author of The Curse at Hester Gardens. A former journalist and producer, she is also author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked, which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner for Horror, as well as author of Salamander Justice. Her work has appeared in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hosts her own blog and newsletter, Tamika Talks Terror. Visit her online at tamikathompson.com.