By day, Karen Aria Lin is a technical writer in the software industry. By night, she writes speculative fiction stories that tend to feature Asian Americans or blue aliens. Her short fiction has been published in Zombies Need Brains, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, and The First Line. When not writing, she is sending routes at the climbing gym or exploring the lush Pacific Northwest with her Taiwanese Mountain Dog. You can find her website at www.karenlin.me/fiction.

While being rained on adjacent to Portland, Oregon, Monte Lin edits, writes, and plays tabletop roleplaying games and writes short stories. Clarion West got him to write about dying universes, edible sins, dreaming mountains, and singularities made of anxieties. His stories have been published at Cossmass Infinities, Cast of Wonders, Flame Tree Press anthologies, and others. His nonfiction has been published at Strange Horizons. He is Managing Editor of Uncanny and Staff Editor of Angry Hamster Press. He can be found posting Doctor Who news, Asian American diaspora discourse, and his board game losses on Bluesky @montelin.bsky.social.

E.M. Linden (she/her) is a speculative fiction writer from Aotearoa New Zealand who likes coffee, books, owls, and the sea. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, Flash Fiction Online, the Locus Recommended Reading List (2022), and various other places. She is online at emlinden.blog or @emlinden.bsky.social.

Marissa Lingen writes science fiction, fantasy, poems, and essays. She lives in Minnesota atop some of the oldest bedrock in North America. She promises that she is really a very nice person and the consistent return to monsters in her work is probably a coincidence of some sort.

Monica Louzon (she/her) is a queer, Maryland-based writer, translator, and editor. Her words have appeared in Apex Magazine, After the Storm, Dark Recesses, Paranoid Tree, Shoreline of Infinity, and others. She is Acquiring Editor for The Dread Machine. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram @molo_writes.

P. H. Low is a Rhysling- and Locus-nominated Malaysian American writer and poet whose debut novel, These Deathless Shores, is forthcoming in July from Orbit Books (US) and Angry Robot (UK). Their shorter work is published in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy Magazine, and Diabolical Plots, among others, and they can be found online at ph-low.com and @_lowpH on Twitter/X and Instagram.

Goran Lowie is an award-winning aro/ace poet from rural Belgium with poems in Strange Horizons, Heartlines Spec, Radon Journal and others. He writes poetry in his second language and is a high school teacher in his day job. You can follow him on Twitter @goranlowie.

Anne Marie Lutz is the author of three fantasy novels. Her Color Mage novels were re-issued in 2019 as Black Tide and Sword of Jashan. Her newest novel, Taylenor, was released in 2019. She has also written several short stories, appearing most recently in the Blood on the Blade sword & sorcery anthology, the Dark Recesses Press webzine, and the Sleepless Decompositions podcast. For more about Anne Marie’s work, you can check out her blog at annemariesblog.wordpress.com.

Anna Madden is a writer and Acquisitions Editor for Dark Matter Magazine and Dark Matter INK. Her fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Orion’s Belt, PseudoPod, and elsewhere. In free time, she makes birch forests out of stained glass. Follow her on Twitter/X @anna_madden_ or visit her website at annamadden.com.

Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Asimov's, and F&SF. The Saint of Witches, Avra’s debut collection of horror poetry, is available from Weasel Press. You can find Avra on twitter (@avramargariti).