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, Eye to the Telescope, Illumen, Spectral Realms, Reunion: The Dallas Review, In Parentheses, Gyroscope, and various other print and web venues, and her first collection of poems, Arthurian Things, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020.

Raised in Vegas then exiled to Chicago, S. T. Eleu (they, them) has been a musician, teacher, and consummate Vulcan. Autism is their default universe, and though sparsely populated, is a glorious place to escape to, write in, and display an impressive collection of action figures. Their most recent publications were in Divergents Magazine, New Feathers Anthology, Star*Line, and Aphelion Webzine.

Alexander Etheridge has been developing his poems and translations since 1998. His poems have been featured in Wilderness House Literary Review, Ink Sac, Cerasus Journal, The Cafe Review, The Madrigal, Abridged Magazine, Susurrus Magazine, The Journal, and many others. He was the winner of the Struck Match Poetry Prize in 1999.

Sofia Ezdina is an emerging writer and immigrant queer woman who befriends stray animals and whispers eerie things. Her works appeared in Bridgit Gates, Enchanted Conversation, and Air and Nothingness Press. Her short stories were nominated for the Utopian Award and Pushcart Prize 2023.

Eric Farrell (he/his) lives in Long Beach, California, where he works as a beer vendor by day and speculative fiction author by night. His writing credits stem from a career in journalism, where he reported for a host of local and metro newspapers in the greater Los Angeles area. He runs the website stygianspace.com and posts on Twitter @stygianspace. He has recent fiction in Etherea Magazine, Pulp Modern, and Synthetic Reality.

Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. His short stories have been published in Tiny Nightmares, The Southwest Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Catapult, Reckoning, Bourbon Penn, Uncharted, and elsewhere. He is the Fiction Editor for The Cape Cod Poetry Review. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com.

David Farrow is the author of the bestselling Neverglades series. His work has appeared in Mythaxis Magazine, the LGBT+ horror anthology Black Rainbow, and is forthcoming on the NoSleep Podcast. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Lesley University and teaches with the creative writing non-profit GrubStreet in Boston, MA. You can find him at davidfarrowwrites.com or @davidfarrow5734 on social media.

Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, CA. His poetry has appeared in: Reliquiae, Silver Blade, Eccentric Orbits, and many other places. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his poem “papyrus” in 2016. His first chapbook, drifter, is available from Amazon. His poem “there are fossils” (originally published in Silver Blade) came in second in the 2020 Dwarf Stars Speculative Poetry Competition. His plays have appeared on California stages in Pine Mountain Club, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, and Hayward. He has also won cooking ribbons at the Kern County Fair.

Courtney Floyd grew up in New Mexico, where she learned to write between tarantula turf wars and apocalyptic dust storms. Despite spending several years as a teen touring with her own family band, Courtney never learned to harmonize. Her sisters were lovely and kept her around anyway. Courtney’s short work can be found in publications including Fireside Magazine, Small Wonders, and Wizards in Space. Her audio drama, The Way We Haunt Now, is available on all major podcast platforms. Find her online at courtney-floyd.com and on social media as @cannfloyd.

Vanessa Fogg dreams of selkies, dragons, and gritty cyberpunk futures from her home in western Michigan. She spent years as a research scientist in molecular cell biology and now works as a freelance medical writer. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Podcastle, GigaNotoSaurus, The Future Fire, and Neil Clarke’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4. Her short fantasy novelette, The Lilies of Dawn, is available from Annorlunda Books. A complete bibliography and more can be found at her website www.vanessafogg.com. Vanessa is fueled by green tea.