Mari Ness is the author of Through Immortal Shadows Singing, Resistance and Transformation: On Fairy Tales, Dancing in Silver Lands, and, most recently, Let me tell you of that garden, a mini chapbook available from Sword and Kettle Press. Other work appears in Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Apex, Baffling, Reckoning, Strange Horizons, and multiple other zines and anthologies. More information can be found on an infrequently updated webpage, https://marikness.wordpress.com/, or on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/mariness.bsky.social. Mari lives in central Florida.

Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, California, he gave up all his stuff in 2011 and now lives out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding around the world ever since. Look for him at russellnichols.com.

Christi Nogle is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated and Bram Stoker Award® winning first novel Beulah as well as three short fiction collections: The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future; Promise: A Collection of Weird Science Fiction; and One Eye Opened in That Other Place.

Her work has also appeared in over fifty publications including Strange Horizons, Apex, PseudoPod, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye.

She is co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Stoker-nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) and co-editor with Ai Jiang of Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia (Shortwave Publishing).

Follow her at https://christinogle.com and on across social media under the username christinogle.

Temidayo Okun (he/him) is a Nigerian poet that prefers to be referred to as 19. he writes poems. say hi to him on instagram @mr_number_19.

Abdulbasit Oluwanishola, SWAN V, is a young Nigerian poet and essayist who writes from Ilorin, Kwara State. He's studying Agriculture in Usmanu Dafodiyo University Sokoto. He is the winner of the PCU Eid Celebration on-the-spot poetry contest 2023. He is shortlisted in the Dawn Project Writing Contest 2023. His works are up/forthcoming on A Long House, Poetry Journal, Poetry Column, Rowayat, Ninshãr Arts, World Voices Magazine, Last Stanza, The Marbled Sigh, Invisible City and elsewhere. He tweets @OO1810107.

Anya Ow is the author of Ion Curtain, The Firebird's Tale and Cradle and Grave, and is an Aurealis Awards finalist. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's, Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2019 anthology and more. Born in Singapore, Anya has a Bachelor of Laws from Melbourne University and a Bachelor of Applied Design from Billy Blue College of Design. She lives in Melbourne with her two cats, working as a graphic designer, illustrator, and chief studio dog briber for a creative agency. She can be found at anyasy.com or on twitter @anyasy.

Overcomer Ibiteye is a Nigerian poet and writer. She's an alumnus of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship. Her works have appeared in anthologies and magazines like Land Luck Review, Iskanchi, Scrawl Place Magazine, Starline Science Fiction and Poetry, African Writers Space and others. She was shortlisted for the African Writers Awards (2021), the Spectrum Poetry Contest (2022) and the Calanthe Collective Prize for Unpublished Poetry (2022).

Sodïq Oyèkànmí holds a B.A in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his works have been published/is forthcoming in Passages North, Poetry Wales, Lucent Dreaming, Strange Horizons, and North Dakota Quaterly. A 2022/23 Poetry Translation Centre UNDERTOW cohort, he won the 2022 Lagos/London Poetry Competition.

Mahmoodah Oyeleye (she/her) is the sixteen-year-old Nigerian author of Faded Blues and a member of Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. She has been shortlisted for literary prizes including the Writefluenza horror/suspense/thriller contest (2021), Abubakar Gimba prize for short story (February 2021), Wakaso Poetry prize (May 2021), Chinua Achebe Poetry Anthology Prize (2021) and BKPW poetry contest (February 2022). She is a Muslim, a foodie and a fan of Mobile games.

Suzan Palumbo is a Trinidadian-Canadian, dark speculative fiction writer and editor. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula, Aurora, World Fantasy and Locus awards. She also co-founded the Ignyte Awards with L.D. Lewis and coedited the special Caribbean issue of Strange Horizons Magazine. Her award nominated dark fantasy/horror short story collection Skin Thief: Stories is out now from Neon Hemlock. Her novella Countess will be published by ECW Press on September 10th 2024. Her work has been published in Lightspeed Magazine, Fantasy, The Deadlands, The Dark Magazine, PseudoPod, Fireside Fiction Quarterly, PodCastle, Anathema: Spec Fic from the Margins and other venues. She is officially represented by Michael Curry of the Donald Maass Literary Agency and can be found on instagram @gothicsyntax. When she isn't writing, she is often sketching, listening to new wave or wandering her local misty forests.