Amanda Bergloff is a mixed media/digital artist of the weirder things in life. Her cover art has been published by the Jules Verne Society's Extraordinary Visions Anthology, Utopia Science Fiction, Fear Forge, Orion's Belt, NonBinary Review, and others. She lives in Denver, Colorado and is a shameless collector of over 4,000 horror and science fiction paperback books, along with vintage toys and comics.

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Barbara Candiotti is a former High Tech Worker who now focuses on photography, art, and writing.

You can find her website at www.artstation.com/bcandiotti.


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Doug Donovan is a reporter-turned-fiction-writer based in Baltimore.




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Corinne Engber is a genre fiction writer and professional working stiff. Her work has recently appeared in A Midnight Kind of Place and Tales to Terrify. She lives in Boston with her wife and cat. Find her on Tumblr @synonymsfordismember.


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Andrew Fraknoi is a retired astronomer and college professor. He has had twelve stories published so far, two in anthologies, and ten in magazines. He is the lead author of the free, online book Astronomy, published by the nonprofit OpenStax project, which has become the most frequently-used introductory astronomy textbook in North America. He has also written two children’s books and some manuals for teachers. The International Astronomical Union has named Asteroid 4859 Asteroid Fraknoi, in recognition of his contributions to the public understanding of science. For more on his educational work, please see: https://fraknoi.com

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Adele Gardner (they/them, Mx., https://gardnercastle.com/) has a poetry collection, Halloween Hearts, released by Jackanapes Press (https://www.jackanapespress.com/product/halloween-hearts) and over 500 stories, poems, art, and articles published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Flash Fiction Online, Daily Science Fiction, and more. A member of SFWA, HWA, SFPA, and the Poetry Society of Virginia, and graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, Adele coedited SFPA’s short poetry anthology Dwarf Stars 2022 with Greer Woodward (https://sfpoetry.com/ds/22dwarfstars.html) and guest-edited the Arthuriana issue of SFPA’s poetry journal Eye to the Telescope (Issue 27, January 2018, https://eyetothetelescope.com/intros/027intro.html). Twelve of Adele’s poems won or placed in the Poetry Society of Virginia Awards, Rhysling Award, and Balticon Poetry Contest. Adele serves as literary executor for father, mentor, and namesake Delbert R. Gardner.

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Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her fiction has appeared in Nightscript 6 and Cellar Door from Dark Peninsula Press. You can read some of her poetry in Vastarien, Utopia Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. Her first chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is available from The Quarter Press.

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John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, New English Review and Tenth Muse. Latest books, Subject Matters, Between Two Fires and Covert, are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Broken Plate, Amazing Stories and River and South.

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Dave Hangman is Spanish writer David Verdugo's pseudonym. He has published short stories in the anthologies Superstition by Redwood Press and Cryptids from the Rock by Engen Books, and in Creepy Podcast, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Swords and Sorcery Magazine, The Brussels Review, Philosophy Now!, Rock and a Hard Place Magazine, After Dinner Conversation, The Lorelei Signal, East of the Web, Space and Time Magazine, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, The Dirty Spoon, Hyphen Punk, Havok, The Sprawl Mag, History Through Fiction, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and Bright Flash Literary Review. His story "Eternal Fall" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022. He has received four honorable mentions in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contests.

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Jamal Hodge is a Bram Stoker Award winning writer, a Nebula award finalist, and an award-winning director. His producing credits include the Academy Award–nominated documentary Armed Only With a Camera: The Life & Death of Brent Renaud. In literature, he is an Elgin Award winner, a Dwarf Stars Award winner, and a Rhysling Award finalist whose work appears consistently in anthologies and magazines. His anthology Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales debuted as Amazon’s #1 New Horror Anthology Release, and his forthcoming books, I’m Not a Good Person, I’m a New Yorker, to be released in July 2026 by Crystal Lake Publishing; and the anthology Shards of Gotham: New York City Through The Looking Glass from Ruadán Press, to be released in 2027, continue his exploration of pain, identity, and redemption.

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Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

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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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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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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".

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Adam Ross first started writing seriously whilst studying at university, working on numerous student film productions. His short film Plan C was screened at "Screentest," the UK's National Student Film Festival. In 2011 he was long-listed for the BBC's Future Talent Award. However over the past few years, Adam has increasingly dedicated time to writing prose and his first published story appeared in the 2017 anthology Realities Perceived. He also has a PhD in Modern British History, though he is not entirely sure why.

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A freelance science journalist & photographer, Sonali Roy wears several other hats including a passionate traveler, music composer, singer, pianist, lyricist, painter, 3-D art designer and practices yoga & meditation regularly. Devoted to vegan diet, she enjoys creative writing. Sonali is accompanied by the sweet memories of her canine friend (and her best friend) Fuchoo, who left her forever in July 2023 at the age of eight. Last year in September, she joined the Society for Ritual Arts (Coreopsis Journal and Roses & Wildflowers) as art editor on a volunteer basis. While not working, Sonali enjoys listening to songs.

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Jade Scardham is an artist and writer focusing on fantasy, horror and sci-fi. She particularly enjoys writing creepy stories and designing creatures and characters. You can find her on Bluesky (@arcanepixels744.bsky.social) and Instagram (@arcanepixelsart).

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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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Mira Singer spent her childhood in New England sword fighting with friends and searching for magic, and currently roosts in a tree house in the wilds of Yonkers. “The World is Raining” was originally published by Flash Fiction Magazine. Other previous publications include “They Live So Little and They Die So Fast” first published in Flash Fiction Magazine and reprinted in Small Wonders, “Actual Intelligence” in The /tƐmz/ Review, and “The Parrots of Chelm” with Liar’s League. Learn more at https://dragonsathenaeum.weebly.com/.

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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, Nature, Terraform, Star*Line, Escape Pod, and anthologies such as Make Shift, Ride the Star Wind, Sharp and Sugar Tooth, Deep Signal, and Battling in All Her Finery. Select stories can be read in German, Spanish, Vietnamese, Estonian, French and Japanese translation. She is guest editing the Aliens issue of Eye to the Telescope poetry magazine. Her sci-fi novella Ellipses is forthcoming from Infinivox. Besides writing stories, poetry and non-fiction, she also teaches martial arts and paints fantastical art in sumi ink, watercolor and acrylic.

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Bailey Thomas is a writer and healthcare worker living in Pennsylvania, USA. She has been published in Androids and Dragons Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Star*Line, and others. She can be found on twitter/X @bailey_thomas92, Bluesky @baileythomas92.bsky.social and Instagram @bailey_thomaswriter.

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Michael VanCalbergh currently lives in Normal, IL. His work has recently appeared in the Chicago Reader, After Hours Magazine, and many other spaces. He edits for the poetry journal SRPR and writes reviews of comics for the Comics Beat. You can find him running the website Widely Read (https://widely-read.ghost.io/) or on BlueSky (@mvcpoet.bsky.social)

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Olga Vrubel lives in London, Great Britain, with her family and old-house ghosts. Whenever she doesn't write or read horror, she enjoys watching football (London is Blue!) and travelling. You can find her on Twitter (@VrubelOlga) where she posts reviews of books and likes interacting with other authors.

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Marcus Whalbring is a poet and author who’s been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net. His poetry collections include A Concert of Rivers (Milk & Cake Press) and How to Draw Fire (Finishing Line Press). A graduate of the MFA program at Miami University, his poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Space & Time, Haven Spec, Illumen, The Dread Machine, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and The NoSleep Podcast, among others. He’s a high school teacher, a father, and a husband. Learn more about his work at marcuswhalbring.com and instagram.com/marcuswhalbring/.