Alyssa Beatty lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Spread: Tales of Deadly Flora. Find her at alyssabeattywrites.com

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Sydnie Beaupré is more than just a girl: they're an openly LQBTQ2IA author that lives in their own imagination: a post-apocalyptic, zombie-inhabited world, where magical creatures and supernatural occurrences are simply the mundane.

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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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After the incredibly practical literature degree from the University of Chicago, award-winning, pushcart-nominated Maia Brown-Jackson then braved the myriad esoteric jobs that inevitably followed, ultimately straying to Iraq to volunteer with survivors of ISIS genocide. Inspired with a new focus, she caffeinated herself through a graduate degree in terrorism and human rights and now investigates fraud, waste, and abuse of humanitarian aid in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Also, she writes.

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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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Dannye Chase (she/her) is a queer, married mom of three who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. She claims to write in many genres, but her oldest offspring suspects it all boils down to either romance or horror…or somehow both. Dannye’s short fiction has appeared in the anthology Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead from Improbable Press, Allegory magazine, and the No Sleep podcast. Her supernatural horror story The Impossible House took first prize in the On the Premises contest #44. You can find her on Twitter and Bluesky as Dannye Chase, and at DannyeChase.com, where she gives weird writing prompts.

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Vivian Chou is a second-generation Chinese-American writer. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Uncharted, The Forge Literary Magazine, and Apex, among others. She prefers to fuel her writing with naps, exercise, and dystopian dread, but usually manages with black coffee and chocolate.



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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 is a writer/illustrator who has lived most of his life on the East coast. His work can be found in The Martian Wave, Weird Horror, Space & Time, Dark Regions, Strange Horizons, Not One of Us, The Darker Side Anthology, Songs From Dead Singers Anthology, two Barnes & Noble anthologies, and elsewhere. He and his wife are living the fairytale life in the nightmare country of New Jersey. He occasionally updates his website at SlipOfThePen.com.


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Rachel Dotson graduated from the Randolph College MFA program and holds a Master of Science in Clinical Counseling Psychology from Radford University. She lives in the New River Valley of Virginia and can be found haunting her local library.



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Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Haven, Belmont Story Review, DarkWinter, Black Fox, PoetrySouth, and various other print and web venues. Her first collection of poems, Arthurian Things, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020, and her second poetry collection, Dreamscapes and Dark Corners, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2023. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star awards.

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Ryan Hyatt is a former news reporter, current educator, and author of the Terrafide sci-fi series. He edits the satirical sci-fi news site, The La-La Lander, as well as Not Your Father’s Bedtime Stories, kid’s lit he creates with his daughter, author Sage Hyatt. Find him at the beach and his stories across the internet, or connect with him on Twitter/Instagram @ucalthisreality.

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Gerri Leen is an award-nominated poet from Northern Virginia who's into horse racing, tea, and collecting encaustic art and raku pottery. She has poetry published by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Dark Matter, The HWA Poetry Showcase, Dreams & Nightmares and others and has just published her first poetry collection Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness. Visit gerrileen.com to see what she's been up to.

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Lauren McBride is author of the chapbook Aliens, Magic, and Monsters (Hiraeth, 2023). Nominated for the Best of the Net, Pushcart, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars Awards, her poetry has appeared internationally in speculative and mainstream publications including Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Utopia Science Fiction's 5th Anniversary Anthology. She enjoys swimming, gardening, baking, reading, writing, and knitting scarves for U.S. troops.

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Amuri Morris is an artist based in Richmond, Va. She recently graduated from painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. Throughout the years she has acquired several artistic accolades such as a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. She aims to promote diversity in the art canon, specifically focusing on the black experience. You can find more of her work at www.murisart.com.

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Mary Jo Rabe writes science fiction, modern fantasy, historical fiction, and crime or mystery stories, generally displaying a preference for what she defines as happy endings. Ideas for her fiction come from the magnificent, expanding universe, the rural environment of eastern Iowa where she grew up, the beautiful Michigan State University campus where she got her first degree, and the Black Forest area of Germany with its center in Freiburg where she worked as a librarian for 41 years before retiring to Titisee-Neustadt. News about her published stories is posted regularly on her blog: https://maryjorabe.wordpress.com/

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Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion (siya/they) is a Filipina Asian-American, certified 200-Hour Yoga Teacher, and Returned United States Peace Corps Volunteer (Thailand 130) who graduated from Seton Hill University with a MA in Art Therapy. Art therapy is their instrument for healing the weights of cultural somatic impressions and empowering their communities. @twiichii X https://twiichii.wordpress.com/

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A freelance journalist and photographer, Sonali Roy wears several other hats including painter, 3-D art designer, music composer, and singer though the sudden demise of her 8-yr old canine friend Fuchoo baffled her. Devoted to vegan diet, Sonali enjoys brainstorming healthy recipes in the kitchen. She also loves creative writing.

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Ron Sanders is an L.A.-based author, poet, and illustrator.





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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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Deborah Sheldon is a multi-award-winning author and anthology editor from Melbourne, Australia, who writes across the darker spectrum of horror, crime and noir. Published fiction includes poetry, drabbles, flash, short stories, novelettes, novellas and novels. Her latest titles are the novel Bodily Harm (Undertaker Books), and the anthology she conceived and edited Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies (IFWG Publishing). Forthcoming in 2025 is her poetry collection The Broonie and Other Dark Poems (Hiraeth Publishing). Deb's poetry has been published in magazines such as Illumen, AntipodeanSF, Nightmare Fuel, Midnight Echo, Trembling with Fear, and Penumbric. Her villanelle "The Broonie" was shortlisted for the Australasian Shadows "Best Poem" Award. Visit Deb at http://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com

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Marge Simon is a writer/poet/illustrator living in Ocala, FL, USA. A multiple Stoker winner, HWA Lifetime Achievement awardee and Grand Master of SFPA, her works appear in Asimov’s, Daily Science Fiction, Silver Blade, Penumbric, Magazine of F&SF, and more, as well as anthologies such as Chiral Mad, Qualia Nous, Spectral Realms. Instagram: margesimonwrites

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Gwynne Stanker taught English as a second language for two years in Africa. This story arose from that experience. She writes across genres both historical and speculative with elements of fantasy and the supernatural. She has a story in the anthology Fresh Starts and another story, "Big Rock Candy Mountain," appearing in The Sunlight Press. She took top honors in The Zebulon for her novel The Sun Walkers. She recently completed an as yet unpublished novel Dark Mountain. Together with her spouse and an overly-affectionate poodle-terrier mix named “Lovey,” she calls the beautiful Colorado prairie home.

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Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece teaches Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; her weird fiction appears or will appear in places like Weird Horror, Apocalypse Confidential, Exacting Clam, The Quarter(ly), and others. Her first novel, Poltergeist, is forthcoming with Apocalypse Confidential.

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Kate M Tyte was born in Bath, England. She worked as an archivist for over ten years, before moving to Lisbon where she works as an English teacher. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Slightly Foxed and The Short Story, and her fiction and poetry in Teleport; STORGY; MONO; Riggwelter; Reflex Press; Idle Ink; The Fiction Pool; Press Pause Press; Ghastly Gastronomy; Living, Loving, Longing: Lisbon; Strange Spring: Stories We Wrote in Self-Isolation; The Chamber and on The Other Stories and Creepy Pod podcasts.

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Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Consequence Journal, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Gyroscope Review, Arachne Press, Gwyllion Magazine and So It Goes.

https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/