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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Kevin Canfield lives in New York City. His writing has appeared in Cineaste, the Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today and other publications.

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Myna Chang hosts Electric Sheep SF and publishes MicroVerse Recommended Reading. Her fiction has been selected for the Locus Recommended Reading List, Norton’s Flash Fiction America, and several “Best Of” anthologies; her poetry has received a Rhysling honorable mention. Find her at MynaChang.com or on Bluesky @MynaChang.

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JM Cyrus writes speculative fiction. With a BA in Classical Studies, an MA in Reception Theory, and currently studying for an MFA in Creative Writing, she enjoys finding new worlds, looking at how she found them, and working out how to show them to you. She has work published magazines, anthologies and online, in venues such as Inner Worlds, Black Cat Weekly and Luna Station Quarterly. See the full list at her website and say hello at https://jmcyrus.carrd.co/#works

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Martins Deep (he/him) is a poet of Urhobo heritage, as well as a photographer and digital artist. He is currently pursuing his undergraduate studies at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. His manuscript, "Sighs in Translation," was a semifinalist for the '23 Sillerman Prize, and he received an honorable mention in the free verse category of Bacopa Literary Review. His work has been published in notable outlets such as Magma Poetry, Strange Horizons, Fiyah, Lolwe, 20:35 Africa, Augur Magazine, and more. He can be reached at @martinsdeep1.


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J. D. Harlock is an Eisner-nominated American writer, researcher, editor, and academic pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of St. Andrews, whose writing has been featured in Business Insider, Newsweek, The Cincinnati Review, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, The Griffith Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and New York University's Library of Arabic Literature. You can find him on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, & Twitter.

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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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Brian Hugenbruch is the author of over sixty speculative fiction stories and poems. His poetry has been nominated for the Rhyslings, Pushcarts, and Best of the Net; he has most recently appeared in Kaleidotrope, Space & Time, and Strange Horizons. He lives in Upstate NY with his wife and their daughter, and he spends his days trying to explain quantum cryptography to other nerds.

You can find him online at https://the-lettersea.com, on BlueSky @the-lettersea, or on IG / Threads @the_lettersea. No, he’s not sure how to say his last name, either.

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Dora Ilce is a Polish-Dutch illustrator with a fondness for anthropomorphic animals. She works with pencils, ink, and digital tools. She currently lives on a sailboat, even though she is terrified of sharks. You can see more of her work at dorailce.com and on Instagram at @sometimesketches


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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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Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts. More of their work appears in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Vastarien, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov's, Nightmare Magazine, and others. Her poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and Elgin Awards. Her eco-horror novella, Every Dark Cloud, was published in March 2025 by Ghost Orchid Press. Find them on Twitter as @MariscaPichette, Instagram as @marisca_write, and Bluesky as @marisca.bsky.social.

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Sam W. Pisciotta is an intrepid storyteller hurtling through spacetime on the power of morning coffee and late-night tea. He writes stories for people who want to visit other planets, learn magic from birds, or camp in haunted forests. His M.A. in Literary Studies from the University of Colorado trained him to deconstruct various texts; living life taught him how to put them back together. Sam is a graduate of the Odyssey writing program. Find his stories in Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, and other fine publications. Connect at www.silo34.com and @silo34 on Instagram, and @swpisciotta on Bluesky Social.

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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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Tom Raymond's writing has previously been published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. He is a graduate of Ploi Pirapokin's Fantastical Characters workshop. When not working like a dog, you can find him and his partner in downward-facing dog or playing fetch with their dog.

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Vekhan Sametyaza [AKA Desmond Rhae] is a transmutative artist, author, and musician with a deep interest in promoting dark awakening through authentic self-expression. An enduring love for sci-fi and fantasy themes has inspired his work for publications like Cosmic Horror Monthly, Burning Light Press, and Florida Roots Press. You can find out more at www.theinksphere.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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Odessa Silver is a fantasy author from the UK who is inspired by her love of Japan, the natural world, and the human mind. Always a dreamer, Odessa pulls ideas from the many thoughts which dominate her awake or sleeping mind. She has been writing since she was a young child, needing to get down the stories crafted in hours of daydreaming and has always written under the fantasy genre, finding it most freeing and able to explore each idea to its fullest. Odessa lives with her Bengal cat Phoebe, who tries her hardest to steal her attention from writing when possible.

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Carl Tait is a software engineer, classical pianist, and writer. His work has appeared in After Dinner Conversation (Pushcart Prize nominee), Mystery Magazine (cover story), the Eunoia Review, the Literary Hatchet, the Saturday Evening Post, and others. He also has a story in Close to Midnight, a horror anthology from Flame Tree Press. Carl grew up in Atlanta and currently lives in New York City with his wife and twin daughters. For more information, visit carltait.com.

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Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor's degree in design.

The first personal exhibition "My soul is like a wild hawk" (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, she especially likes the image of a man - a bird - Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines: Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection The 50 Best Short Stories, and her poem was published in the collection of poetry The wonders of winter.

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Gretchen Tessmer lives in the deep woods of the U.S./Canadian borderlands. She’s published short stories and poems in many places, including Nature, America, Bourbon Penn, Strange Horizons, Asimov's and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, with her poetry collecting Pushcart, Rhysling, Best of the Net and Dwarf Stars nominations along the way.

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George S. Walker's stories have appeared in On Spec, Abyss & Apex, Amazing Stories, Andromeda Spaceways, The Colored Lens, Electric Spec, Swords and Sorcery, Every Day Fiction, Amazon Kindle, and elsewhere. Anthologies containing his work include Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism & Beyond, and The Third Science Fiction Megapack.

His website is sites.google.com/site/george walker/

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Eric Wampler lives in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He reads and writes fantasy, dark fantasy, and science fiction. He has had short stories accepted for publication in Electric Spec, The Piker Press, Etherea Magazine, and Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine.



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Jennifer Elise Wang (they/she) is a nonbinary femme in STEM and punk rock pretty boi poet from Dallas, Texas. When they’re not in the lab or writing, they enjoy action sports, cosplay, dancing, and volunteering at the animal shelter. They have been published in FERAL, Ghoulish Tales, Vocivia, and Exposed Brick Literary Magazine, among others.

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Ann Wuehler has written six novels— Aftermath: Boise, Idaho, Remarkable Women of Brokenheart Lane, The House on Clark Boulevard, Oregon Gothic, The Adventures of Grumpy Odin and Sexy Jesus and Owyhee Days. “The Blackburne Lighthouse” appears in Brigid Gate’s Crimson Bones anthology. “The Snake River Tale” was included in Along Harrowed Trails. “The Ghost of John Burnberry” appears in Penumbric. “The Caesar’s Ghost Quest” made it into the October 2023 World of Myth. “Cassie’s Story” was just accepted by Great Weather For Media. “Mouthpiece” will appear in the Horror Zine’s summer 2024 edition. “Rock Love,” a short story, was just accepted by Eternal Haunted Summer for their 2024 summer edition. “The Postcards of Finch Barber” will be in the Whistle Pig’s annual magazine, out in October. “Tumbleweed Hum” was accepted by World of Myth this past fall. “Igor and Dr. Sam” appears in the Stygian Lepus’s #14. “Rebel Girl” was just accepted at Stygian Lepus, #21 and “Eustacia and the Shadow” will appear in 2025 as part of a Frost Zone anthology.