Sara Backer’s Elgin-nominated first book of poetry, Such Luck, follows two poetry chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt and Bicycle Lotus. Her poems have appeared in Abyss & Apex, Asimov’s, Bracken, Crannóg, Dreams & Nightmares, ETTT, Liminality, Nonbinary Review, The Pedestal, Polu Texni, Silver Blade, Space and Time, and Star*Line.

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Nicola Brayan is a young, aspiring artist from Sydney, Australia. She has rediscovered her passion for art during the pandemic. She uses vivid colours and contrast to capture emotions and expression. Her work is a love letter to what it means to be human. More of her work can be found on Instagram at @an.aesthetic.mirror.

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Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared around the world and been translated into several languages. From time to time, it gets shortlisted for awards. He currently resides in Germany. More can be found at http://www.caselberg.net


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Jennifer Crow's poetry and prose have been published in a wide range of venues over the past quarter-century. Her poems have appeared in Analog, where two were finalists for the AnLab reader awards; Asimov's Science Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, and others. Curious readers can learn more about her and her work on Twitter, where she posts as @writerjencrow.

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Shikhar Dixit’s stuff has appeared in such venues as Weird Horror, Space & Time, Dark Regions, Journ-E, Strange Horizons and Not One of Us. His fiction has been printed in several anthologies, including The Darker Side, Songs From Dead Singers, and Barnes & Noble’s 365 Scary Stories. He lives with his wife somewhere in the deep, dark heart of New Jersey. To learn more, visit his website at SlipOfThePen.com

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Glenn Dungan is currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn-diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder. For more of his work, see his website: https://www.whereisglennnow.com/ (check out The Kennel!)

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Alicia Hilton is an author, editor, arbitrator, professor, and former FBI Special Agent. She believes in angels and demons, magic, and monsters. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Akashic Books, Daily Science Fiction, Lovecraftiana, Modern Haiku, Neon, NonBinary Review, Penumbric Speculative Fiction, Space & Time, Spectral Realms, Unnerving, Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Her website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01.

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JD Hurley. In the service of art, said Hurley has gulped a sunrise atop Mt Fuji, played Ruby Tuesday for 72 hours non-stop, and cavorted speechless as a twelve foot penguin. When using visible word forms, Hurley prefers to arrange a beginning, a middle, and, if convenient, an end, permitting them to appear here and there, now and then, hither and yon. Kindly direct any communications to jdhurley999@gmail.com


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R. Mac Jones is a writer and visual artist. His work has appeared in venues such as Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction. He has a website, https://rmacjoneswrote.com/, that is always in need of updating.




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John C. Mannone, the 2020 Dwarf Stars Award winner and an HWA Scholarship recipient (2017), has poems appearing in North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, and others. He won the Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest in poetry (2020) and the Carol Oen Memorial Fiction Prize (2020). He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as the celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and other journals. His full-length collections are Disabled Monsters (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2015), Flux Lines: The Intersection of Science, Love, and Poetry (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2022), Sacred Flute (Iris Press, 2023), and Song of the Mountains (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023). An Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Alice Lloyd College, John lives in southeast Kentucky.

http://jcmannone.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/jcmannone

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Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Pushcart-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Asimov’s, Liminality, Arsenika, The Future Fire, Space and Time, Eye to the Telescope, and Glittership. The Saint of Witches, Avra’s debut collection of horror poetry, is forthcoming from Weasel Press. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti).

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Tabitha Marsh is a UK-based illustrator specialising in ink, watercolour, and digital drawings. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Lancaster University in 2018 and has been working freelance ever since, mainly in publishing, but also exhibiting work at galleries in London and Leamington Spa.

In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Stratford Literary Festival/Salariya Children’s Book Prize, and since then she has illustrated several books and had her work published in a wide variety of magazines (details of which can be found on her website at www.tabithamarshillustration.com ). Alongside this, she has been the illustrator in residence at the multi-award-winning independent bookshop Kenilworth Books since 2017. You can find more of her work on instagram (@tab_marsh).


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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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Claire McNerney writes, creates, and performs in her home state of California, where she currently attends UCSD. She enjoys, among other things, swimming in lakes so deep she can't even fathom the bottom. Her writing appears in Los Suelos, Proton Reader, and Cossmass Infinities. Follow her on Twitter @claire_mcnerney or Instagram @o.h.c.l.a.i.r.e to say hello and see what she does next!

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Maureen O’Leary lives California. Her short stories, poems, and essays appear in Bourbon Penn, Reckon Review, Occulum Journal, Flame Tree Press' anthology Alternate History, and Sycamore Review, among other places. She serves as the managing editor of The Black Fork Review and is a graduate of Ashland MFA.


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Joshua Orr’s work can be found in Dark Dossier Magazine. He is the Co-Editor of The Vanishing Point, a literary magazine. He has a degree in Media Production but switched from making scary movies to writing scary stories. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife and two kids.


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Marc Phillips's debut novel, The Legend of Sander Grant, was released by Telegram, 2009. You can find some of his work online, much of it in print. This poem is from his forthcoming collection, Tip Diebæck’s Avulsion. His award-winning short stories are anthologized in the forthcoming Pyjama Squid and Other Stories. He has no social media presence. If you enjoyed his work, please let the editor know.

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Desmond Rhae works as an Editor and Illustrator at Starward Shadows eZine. His work has been featured by Cosmic Horror Monthly, Burning Light Press, and Florida Roots Press. Desmond has spent his whole life exploring a deep interest in art, writing, and music. After earning a college degree in graphic design, he’s focused on independent work as a writer and artist alongside writing his sci-fi novel. You can find out more at www.theinksphere.com.

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Chrissie Rohrman is a training supervisor who lives with her husband and herd of fur babies in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has become addicted to writing competitions, and her short stories have been published in various online and print magazines. She is currently drafting the first installment of a fantasy trilogy. Follow on Twitter @ChrissieRawrman or ‘like’ Chrissie Rohrman Writes Things on Facebook.

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Dean Schreck is a retired and relocated Long Islander who has been writing since the age of fourteen. His poems began appearing in small press magazines at seventeen with a bit of fiction here and there. Dean’s work has been published in New Myths. Trembling with Fear, Space and Time, The Literary Hatchet, Littoral, Altered Reality, Magical Blend, Owlflight ... among others. He has also done work in comic books, including—Bloodscent for Comico (1988) and Now Comics Twilight Zone #7.

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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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A resident of North Carolina's Outer Banks, A.P. Sessler frequents an alternate universe not too different from your own, searching for that unique element that twists the everyday commonplace into the weird. When not writing fiction, he composes music, makes art, and strives to connect with his inner genius. He lives with his dog Kahlua and a nameless cat of unknown origins.

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Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (2017), A Collection of Dreamscapes (2020), and Tortured Willows (2021). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art have appeared in numerous venues worldwide, including Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect @christinasng.

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Gordon Sun is a surgeon exploring the interstitial spaces between healthcare and technology. His stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, The Dread Machine, Please See Me, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Mad Scientist Journal, and other publications.

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Sonny Zae lives in the Dallas, Texas area and enjoys writing science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His story collection Ninja Nuns and the S.P.E.C.T.E.R. of Evil is available through Amazon. Tales from Alien AA was published October 2022 by 4StarStories. "Attorney Fight Club" was published October 2022 by Knight Writing Press in their Particular Passages anthology series, Vol 4. "Doll 538" was published December 2021 in Road Kill: Texas Horror volume 6. "She Has My Heart" was published October 2021 in the Dates From Hell anthology. "Automation, Obsolete" was published March 2021 by Daikaijuzine. "Automated Everyman Migrant Theater" was third place winner in Writers of the Future contest, 1Q 2019 and published in the Writers of the Future anthology 36.