Marisca Pichette is an author of speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Further work by her has been published and is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, Daily Science Fiction, Fireside, Uncharted, and PodCastle, among others. A lover of moss and monsters, she lives in Western Massachusetts.

Sandra Pope is an artist, author and in a previous chapter, was a high school teacher in California. She graduated from UCLA in fiction writing in 1972. In 2008, she penned GROWING UP WITHOUT THE GODDESS, a memoir about returning to North Carolina to discover her childhood abusers. For ten years, her pen fell silent. Then, during long walks through rural land debased by hog farms and abused by industrial farming, she listened to the land and honored its voice in poems. In 2021, Sandra's poem, “The Day After Christmas” was a finalist in the NC Poet Laureate Contest, judged by North Carolina's Poet Laureate.

• R L • powell is a neurodivergent writer who's lived through a lot—and also as queer as they come. When not scribbling mad words in a crooked house, he occasionally teaches rhetoric and critical theory to undergraduates. They didn't publish for a spell, but current work appears or is forthcoming in The Rumen, Impossible Archetype, Eunoia Review and elsewhere. He's not much for engaging in social media, but does have a website that they try to keep on top of: rl-powell.com.

TJ Price’s corporeal being (he/him) is currently located in Brooklyn, NY, with his handsome partner of many years, but his ghosts live in northeastern Connecticut and southern Maine. He either is or has been a wine-seller, a wine-drinker, an avid reader, an obsessive writer, a pen-and-ink artist, a dishwasher, a neurosurgical technologist, a proofreader, a storm-watcher, a music-maker, and other sundry avocations.

Primarily, TJ spends his time reading as much as his eyes can take, but when he's not reading, he's either writing weird stories about unnerving things, drawing lots of little circles in pen and ink, enjoying esoteric studies, or taking photographs of clouds.

Rajeev Prasad is a physician and writer whose stories appear in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and other fabulous magazines. He hopes you enjoyed reading this story. Follow him on twitter @rajeevwriter.

Anna Quercia-Thomas is a queer Hispanic American writer and academic currently based in Western Australia. She writes poetry and speculative fiction about found family, queer romance, and connection in dark times. Her work is featured in New Words Press, SWAMP Journal, and in the upcoming issue of Overland.

Rhiannon Rasmussen is a queer author and illustrator interested in monstrosity and the persistence of hope. Rhiannon's fiction has appeared in publications including Lightspeed Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and Evil in Technicolor. Visit www.rhiannonrs.com for more.

Carly Racklin is a fantasy and horror writer, editor, and hobbyist illustrator currently nesting in the mountains of Tennessee with her friends, many plants, and the several families of birds that she feeds from her porch. She has written for a horror film festival and currently works in social media marketing. Her work has appeared in Metaphorosis Magazine, Mirror Dance, Luna Station Quarterly, and more. You can find more of her work at carlyracklin.com and follow her on Twitter @willowylungs.

T. K. Rex is a science fiction and fantasy author from the western states, whose short stories and poems can be found in roughly thirty publications, including Asimov's, Escape Pod and Strange Horizons. Raised by Wiccan parents of mostly British and Ashkenazi descent, who joined the fights for whales, redwoods, gay rights and medical marijuana during her formative years, T. K. now resides in San Francisco, California. They're a member of the Writers Grotto and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association; and an alumni of the Futurescapes, Taos Toolbox and Clarion workshops.

Belicia Rhea was born under a waning crescent moon in the Sonoran Desert. You can find her at beliciarhea.com and read more of her work published in Nightmare Magazine, Miracle Monocle, and Bending Genres, among other places.