Joe Baumann’s fiction and essays have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, Electric Literature, Electric Spec, On Spec, Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hawai’i Review, Eleven Eleven, and many others. He is the author of Ivory Children, published in 2013 by Red Bird Chapbooks. He possesses a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and was nominated for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2016 and was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.


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Anatoly Belilovsky was born in a city that went through six or seven owners in the last century, all of whom used it to do a lot more than drive to church on Sundays; he is old enough to remember tanks rolling through it on their way to Czechoslovakia in 1968. After being traded to the US for a shipload of grain and a defector to be named later, he learned English from Star Trek reruns, apparently well enough to be admitted into SFWA in spite of chronic cat deficiency. He has sold original and translated stories and poems to NATURE, F&SF, Analog, Asimov's, and other markets.


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Lawrence Buentello has published many horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.


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Anton Cancre's mother wasn't really pregnant with them when she went to see The Exorcist, but they tell people that anyways because it sounds cool. Their debut collection of poetry, Meaningless Cycles in a Vicious Glass Prison: Songs of Death and Love, is available through Dragon's Roost Press. They're also a luddite who still has a blogspot website (antoncancre.blogspot.com) and runs the Spec Griot Garage podcast (specgriotgarage.podbean.com) where they get to gush over other people's poems with cool folks.


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Frank Coffman is a retired professor of college English, Creative Writing, and Journalism. He has published speculative poetry and fiction in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His poetic magnum opus, The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019), has been followed by his rendition into English Verse of 327 quatrains of Khayyám's Rubáiyát (2019). A second large collection of poetry, Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows, was published in March of 2020. All are available from Bold Venture Press and on Amazon.

A traditional formalist in his poetic work, he is especially interested in exploring and experimenting with the patterns of verse found across the world’s cultures and ethnicities and across time from ancient to modern. His special love of and interest in the sonnet has led to invention of several cross-cultural meldings of various traditions with the 14-line restriction of the sonnet form.

His third poetry collection, Eclipse of the Moon, was published in May 2021. A collection of seven of his occult detective stories, Three Against the Dark, will be published in late 2021, and a collection of weird and supernatural short stories, In Terrorem: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, is projected for 2022.

He has published speculative short fiction in Test Patterns, Black Veins I, Hell’s Empire, Eldritch Tales, and elsewhere

A member of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association,he established and moderates the Weird Poets Society Facebook group. See his Writer’s Blog at: https://www.frankcoffman-wordsmith.com.


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Steve DuBois is a high school teacher from Kansas City. His speculative fiction has appeared in over two dozen periodicals and has been shortlisted for the James White and Baen Fantasy Adventure Awards. His author site is www.stevedubois.net.


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Maxwell I. Gold is a gay Jewish Rhysling Award nominated prose poet, focusing on weird fiction. His work has been featured in numerous publications including Spectral Realms, Space and Time Magazine, Weirdbook Magazine, Startling Stories, and others.

He has published over 50 short stories and poems since 2017 and recently released his debut prose poetry collection Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose from Crystal Lake Publishing.


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Amelia Gorman is a recent transplant to Eureka, California and you can usually find her walking her dogs or foster dogs in the woods or exploring tide pools. Her fiction has appeared recently in Nightscript 6 and her poetry in Liminality and Vastarien. Her first chapbook, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is forthcoming in September 2021 from Interstellar Flight Press. Find her online at www.ameliagorman.com.


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Alicia Hilton is an author, law professor, arbitrator, actor, and former FBI Special Agent. She believes in angels and demons, magic and monsters. Her work has appeared in Akashic Books, Daily Science Fiction, Demain Publishing UK, Departure Mirror, DreamForge, Dreams & Nightmares, Litro, Modern Haiku, Sci Phi Journal, Space and Time, Spectral Realms, Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere. Alicia’s website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01.


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Jade is an artist, traceur, and baker. Her art has been published in Scifaikuest and Star*Line while her poetry appeared in the Rattle Young Poets Anthology.


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S P Jenkins’s earliest foray into the world of creative writing was as a songwriter; garnering modest successes through various bands and solo guises. It wasn’t until his move to China three years ago that he was inspired to make another move from lyrics to literature. The first draft of his inaugural novel (currently WIP) was written on an iPhone 6 during his commutes to work on the Shanghai underground. Sam is now back in his home country of England and when he is not writing, he is teaching English online or out walking in the Peak District. Sam writes sci-fi and speculative fiction inspired by zeitgeist and philosophy. His influences include pretty much anything ever dramatised and Narrated by Michael Hanson for WAH radio’s Mindwebs.


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Gerri Leen is a Pushcart- and Rhysling-nominated poet from Northern Virginia who's into horse racing, tea, collecting encaustic art and raku pottery, and making weird one-pan meals. She has poetry published in Strange Horizons, Dreams & Nightmares, Polu Texni, NewMyths.com and others. She also writes fiction in many genres (as Gerri Leen for speculative and mainstream, and Kim Strattford for romance) and is a member of HWA and SFWA. Visit gerrileen.com to see what she's been up to.


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Lauren Marrero is the author of Seducing the Laird. Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Lauren has always had a passion for writing. After receiving her bachelors of Arts in English from UC Berkeley, she immediately set out on a world tour looking for adventure, which has taken her everywhere from India to Andalucía in search of interesting stories and experiences. When she is not writing in her favorite coffee shop, Lauren spends most of her reading romance novels and trying new recipes. She currently resides in Tokyo, Japan.

Keep in touch with Lauren via the web:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lauren.Marrero.Writer/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lauglow
Instagram: https://instagram.com/lauglow/


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More of T. Motley's comics are at tmotley.com.


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Michelle Muenzler, known at local science fiction and fantasy conventions as “The Cookie Lady”, writes fiction both dark and strange to counterbalance the sweetness of her baking. Her short fiction and poetry can be read in numerous science fiction and fantasy magazines, and she takes immense joy in crinkling words like little foil puppets. Check out her website, michellemuenzler.com, for links to more of her work...as well as recipes for her convention cookies!


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Jesper Nordqvist, aka 'Ragathol', is a comic artist and illustrator from Sweden, specialized in fantasy and SF comedy and drama. He's been making a lot more comics since creating Mondo Mecho, most of which are available at gumroad.com/ragathol.


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Elby Rogers is a self-taught artist of the macabre hailing from the, by now, famous state of Delaware in the United States.



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Carl Scharwath has appeared globally with 150+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, plays or art photography (His photography was featured on the cover of 6 journals.) Two poetry books, Journey To Become Forgotten (Kind of a Hurricane Press) and Abandoned (ScarsTv) have been published. His first photography book was recently published by Praxis. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine, a competitive runner and 2nd degree black-belt in Taekwondo.

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Marge Simon lives in Ocala, FL, City of Trees with her husband, poet/writer Bruce Boston and the ghosts of two cats. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side." Marge's poems and stories have appeared in Pedestal Magazine, Asimov's, Crannog, Silver Blade, Bete Noire, New Myths, Daily Science Fiction. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet/writer and is on the board of the Speculative Literary Foundation. A multiple Bram Stoker award winner, Marge is the second woman to be acknowledged by the SF&F Poetry Association with a Grand Master Award.

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Christina Sng is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares, Elgin Award runner-up Astropoetry, and A Collection of Dreamscapes. Her poetry, fiction, and art appear in numerous venues worldwide and her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Rhysling Awards, the Dwarf Stars, as well as received honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Best Horror of the Year. Christina's first novelette, "Fury," was published in 2020's Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women and her next book of poems, The Gravity of Existence, is forthcoming in 2022.