Authors

Greg Clumpner is a product of Wisconsin residing in Pittsburgh, PA. Greg is published in multiple journals and is Editor of the Triangulation anthologies Seven-Day Weekend and Hospitium. When not working, writing, or playing with shelter dogs, you’ll find Greg engaging in any form of sport. Explore more at gregclumpner.com.

Jetse de Vries is from ’s-Hertogenbosch and has been a commissioning engineer, troubleshooter, and trainer, travelling all five continents. He nearly froze to death at Salar de Uyuni, suffered heatstroke in Purnululu, got lost in Ahmednagar, faced elephants in Maamba, and has witnessed ten total solar eclipses. He’s trying to settle down as a science fiction writer. He’s had over sixty short stories published, was part of the Interzone editorial team, and edited Shine—an anthology of optimistic SF for Solaris Books. This story is inspired by the advent of consciousness: is it a ‘benevolent glitch’ or an inevitable outcome of evolution? He’s blogging about, well, almost anything, including consciousness on his substack The Divergent Panorama: https://jetse.substack.com .

Chris Doty-Dunn holds a PhD in linguistics, works as a writer and communications professional, and aspires to learn all of the languages. His fiction appears in anthologies and at Crepuscular Magazine. He lives outside Boston, MA with his husband and their two dogs, Weland and Waffles. Find him on Bluesky: @chrisdotydunn.com.

Jennifer Lesh Fleck has stories published or forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online, Gamut, Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Cosmic Horror Monthly, If There's Anyone Left, Heartlines Spec, Inner Worlds, and the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award winner for best anthology, among others. She lives with her family near Portland, Oregon in a dead ringer for the Amityville Horror House, though repainted a cheery jade green. She’s a grateful recipient of the 2025 Superstars Expanding Universe scholarship, and her work is often informed by the challenges of lifelong hidden disability from a rare inherited disorder. Find her @mettle.and.metal (Instagram), @jennifleck.bsky.social (Bluesky), and www.jenniferleshfleck.com.

By day, Janet Forbes (she/her, bi) is the CEO and founder of World Anvil, the award-winning worldbuilding platform, novel writing software and RPG campaign manager with over 3 million users. She spends her work hours trying to help others craft the worlds and stories of their dreams. By night, she's a published author (Kyanite Press, Bona Book's Wrath Month Anthology) and professional game writer (lead author on the Dark Crystal RPG, Kobold Press, Infinite Black et al.), n alumna of Milford Critique Circle UK, and a student of Mary Robinette Kowal's Short Story Cohort. Janet's past experience as an archaeologist, opera singer, teacher and educator, motivational speaker, polyglot, dinosaur-lover, entrepreneur and, somehow, professional recorder player, all find their way into the rich worlds woven through her stories. She divides her time between the UK (where she was spawned) and Greece (where her in-laws live), mioaws when no one is listening, and is forever getting impractical ideas on aeroplanes. Find more at www.janetforbes.com.

Mags L Halliday has been published in Quay Voices and Flash Fiction Magazine, as well as being shortlisted for the Exeter Writers prize. She’s also written Doctor Who fiction for Big Finish and BBC Books, and on a range of non-fiction interests. You can find her online at www.magslhalliday.co.uk .

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Liz Hill exported themselves to Vancouver, British Columbia after many years of staring longingly at the map following every snowfall. For as long as they can remember, they’ve been making up stories, but it wasn't until high school that someone suggested writing them down. Since then, they’ve been hopelessly in love with story crafting, often forgetting about everything else in the process.

Robert Jeschonek is an USA TODAY bestselling author. His work has appeared in WEIRD FICTION QUARTERLY, BLACK CAT WEEKLY, CLARKESWORLD, PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE, and other markets around the world.

Meredith Kinrys is a multidisciplinary artist that has spent much of her career working in the animation industry. Recently, her focus has shifted to pursuing other forms of expression, particularly writing. She aims to rediscover the early joys of childhood, when work was play, craft time was serious business, and fairy tales were real. She lives in midtown Toronto with her two rambunctious cats/coworkers, Tajic and Wink.

Floyd Largent is a former archaeologist who never awoke any sleeping gods or uncovered any ancient evils, despite what Hollywood would have you believe. Currently a full-time writer and editor, he focuses on science fiction, fantasy, history, archaeology, and poetry.

Sam Logan (he/him) emerged in 1984 from the depths of the Chesapeake Bay off the Maryland shore. He made it to Oregon where he is a university professor in kinesiology and teaches courses about punk and body horror. Sam lives with his partner, kiddo, and Dune the dog. He has stories in Mouthfeel Fiction, Punk Noir Magazine, Divinations Magazine, Major 7th Magazine, Underbelly Press, and Wallstrait, among others. Find him at samloganwrites.com.

Brian K. Lowe is a member of SFWA with over 50 publishing credits, living in California with his wife and far too many voices in his head that love giving him advice on why they should each star in his next story. The first volume of his time travel trilogy, The Invisible City, is available from Water Dragon Publishing. His website is www.brianklowe.wordpress.com.

Malda Marlys teaches science outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. An out-of-practice black belt, mediocre birdwatcher, and terrible knitter, ey spends most of eir time being bullied by housepets and adding to a monumental TBR pile. 

Born in South Africa, I'm a software engineer by day and a short film and fiction writer by night. Passionate about coffee, books, TV—and, of course, my bed. 🙂 My love for writing started in high school, but only recently have I begun to pursue it seriously.

Jack Morton studied English and Writing at the University of Toronto. His stories can be read in Vast Literary Press, Radon Journal, DreamForge Anvil, Parsec Ink’s Triangulation, Woodward Review, Expanded Field Journal, and NonBinary Review. He lives in Toulouse, France.

Dan Peacock is a sci-fi and fantasy writer from the UK. His short stories have been published in F&SF, Cast of Wonders, and Little Blue Marble, among others. You can find links to all his published stories at danpeacockwriter.com. He lives with his long-suffering partner and daughter, along with a second-hand cat that doesn’t work properly.

Alistair Robinson (any/all) is a writer crafting stories at the confluence of science, technology, philosophy and humanity. You can find their work at substack.com/@alistairrobinson.

Aeryn Rudel is a writer from Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of the baseball horror novella Effectively Wild, the Iron Kingdoms Acts of War novels, and the flash fiction collection Night Walk & Other Dark Paths. His short stories have appeared in Factor Four Magazine, On Spec, and Pseudopod, among others. Learn more about Aeryn's work at www.rejectomancy.com or on Bluesky @aerynrudel.bsky.social.

Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Scientific American, and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe, is out now from Autonomedia. https://autonomedia.org/product/the-lady-anarchist-cafe/

Cody Schell is a writer & artist from Iowa, USA. He’s written for Obverse Books, Big Finish Productions, Mad Norwegian Press and more. He is also a multidisciplinary artist (photography, design, collage). “ART of the Solar System” is an attempt to fuse these usually separate sides together. 

Art books available here: https://www.kodiakschell.com

Dale Smith is a writer living in Manchester, and author of two BBC Doctor Who Books. His short stories have appeared in Escape Pod and Interzone, as well in numerous Obverse Books’ collections. You can find out more about him at https://dalesmithonline.com/about.

When he's not thinking about new things to say about horror films, Vince Stadon writes comedy and stageplays and sometimes both at once. He is the author of Hounded! My Lifelong Obsession with Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles (MX Publishing) and Counting Draculas: Binge-Watching the Vampire King (ATB Publishing). His articles, essays and short stories have appeared in numerous publications including We Belong Dead, Sherlock Holmes Magazine, and Dracula Beyond Stoker, and he bakes an absolutely terrific Victoria sponge cake. He lives in England with a long-suffering wife, five cats, and an anxiety disorder.

Mark Szasz is a hobby writer who hopes that sharing his stories encourages others to share their own. His work has been published by Havok Magazine, Paragraph Planet, ResAliens, Stupefying Stories, appears in the Hootenanny Horrorshow anthology published by From the Ashes, and the Marshland Horrors anthology released by Dark Peninsula Press, among others.

Ali Trotta is a poet, writer, editor, word-nerd, and unapologetic coffee addict. Her poetry has been published in Uncanny, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Small Wonders, The Deadlands, Fireside, Strange Horizons, Cicada, Nightmare, Mermaids Monthly, The Best of Uncanny Magazine (Subterranean Press), and several of the Rhysling Anthology compilations. Seven of her poems were Rhysling Award nominees. Recently, she had a short story published in Worlds of Possibilities. When she’s not writing, she’s usually cooking, baking, hugging an animal, or pretending to be a mermaid. She has a rescue cat named Thor, who is part Maine Coon and part Gremlin. Her website is alitrotta.com. You can sign up for her newsletter (https://buttondown.email/alwayscoffee) or follow her Tumblr (@alwayscoffee), Bluesky (@alwayscoffee), or Instagram (@alwayscoffee7).

J.S.Watts is a British poet, short story writer and novelist. Her work appears widely in publications in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the States and has been broadcast on BBC and Independent Radio. She has edited various magazines and anthologies. J.S. has published nine books: poetry collections, “Cats and Other Myths”, “Years Ago You Coloured Me” and “Underword”, plus pamphlets “The Submerged Sea” and multi-award nominated SF poetry pamphlet “Songs of Steelyard Sue”. Her novels are “A Darker Moon” – dark fiction, “Witchlight”, “Old Light” and “Elderlight”– urban paranormal. See https://www.jswatts.co.uk/ for further details.

Corey Jae White is the author of Repo Virtual and The VoidWitch Saga – Killing Gravity, Void Black Shadow, and Static Ruin. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Interzone, and Analog, as well as a number of sci-fi anthologies. Find her online at coreyjwhite.com.

Dorian Wolfe, a cat-toting spec-fic author and former concert pianist, focuses her writing on the intersection between the imaginary and...more of the imaginary. Her short fiction has appeared in Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Orange & Bee, and other venues. Find out more at https://dorianwolfe.wordpress.com.