Authors
Lora Gray
Lora Gray (they/them) is a non-binary speculative fiction writer and poet from Northeast Ohio, and has been published in Uncanny Magazine, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and Asimov's, among other places. Lora is also a graduate of Clarion West, a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award in Fiction Writing, and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award. You can find Lora online at lora-gray.com.
LP Kindred
LP Kindred is a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer, editor, teaching artist, and podcaster of speculative fiction from the axes of Black and Queer Identities. An alum of Hurston-Wright, VONA, and Clarion Workshop, Kindred's words feature on Tor.com, Fiyah Lit Mag, Carnegie Hall website, Apex, Escape Pod, PodCastle, and Anthema Spec from the Margins. LP has guest edited issues of Speculative City, The Cosmic Background, and Haven Spec as well as co-editing and contributing VOODOONAUTS PRESENTS: (RE)LIVING MYTHOLOGY (Android Press). Kindred is a cocoa-founder of Voodoonauts, a grassroots collective addressing the underrepresentation and isolation of Black Creatives in Speculative Communities. LP is a co-host of Just Keep Writing, a podcast for writers by writers, to keep you writing. LP's 2022 short story WANDERLUST is Ignyte Award nominated. linktr.ee/LPKINDRED.
Lucero Valdovinos
A native of Zacatecas, Mexico, Lucero is an emerging writer who dabbles in fantasy, poetry, and magical realism written from a queer immigrant perspective. When not creating in some manner they can be found in quiet places. Lucero holds a BA in Psychology and works full-time in California, and is always (always!) haciendo la lucha.
Lynne Sargent
Lynne Sargent is a writer, aerialist, and holds a Ph.D in Applied Philosophy. They are the poetry editor at Utopia Science Fiction magazine. Their work has been nominated for Rhysling, Elgin, and Aurora Awards, and has appeared in venues such as Augur Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction. Their work has also been supported through the Ontario Arts Council. To find out more, reach out to them on Twitter @SamLynneS or for a complete bibliography visit them at scribbledshadows.wordpress.com.
M. R. Robinson
M. R. Robinson is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, where she studies time and desire in Renaissance literature. When not writing or teaching, she and her wife are very (very) slowly restoring their crumbly old house, which they share with too many pets and too many books. Her fiction has previously appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and is forthcoming in Fusion Fragment. You can find her on Twitter or Bluesky @mruthrobinson.
Macey Levington
Macey Levington is a queer Brit who roams the Pacific Northwest in search of tea and interesting plant life. A four-time Hugo-finalist podcaster for her work with Be The Serpent, her debut novel Blood of Queens is forthcoming from Saga Press in Summer 2027 . Find her short fiction and poetry at www.englishmace.com.
Madalena Daleziou
Madalena Daleziou is a pushcart-nominated Greek author living in Glasgow, where she studied an MLitt in fantasy literature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lucent Dreaming, The Deadlands, and the other side of hope, and she is currently seeking representation for her neo-Victorian fantasy novel. She can most often be found in a bookshop or behind a keyboard writing stories with too many ghosts. Follow her on Twitter at @LBooklott.
Madi Haab
Madi Haab (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent writer and poet of Moroccan descent from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She draws inspiration from her mixed cultural heritage and identities to explore the liminal and interstitial. Her work has appeared in Augur Magazine, Haven Speculative, and Baffling Magazine, to name a few, and in 2025, she won the QWF’s carte blanche Prize and the Marina Nemat Award for Fantasy. When not writing, she dabbles in art and singing, and likes video games and afternoon naps a little too much. Find her at madihaab.com and on Bluesky @madihaab.com.
Mahaila Smith
Mahaila Smith (they/them) is the author of Seed Beetle (Stelliform Press, 2025). They are one of the co-editors for The Sprawl Mag. They like learning theory and writing speculative poetry. You can find them haunting their local coffee shop and staying up late to finish their crochet projects.
Marcus Whalbring
Marcus Whalbring is the author of A Concert of Rivers from Milk & Cake Press, as well as How to Draw Fire from Finishing Line Press and Just Flowers from Crooked Steeple Press. A graduate of the MFA program at Miami University, his poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in, Strange Horizons, Space & Time, Illumen, The Dread Machine, Abyss & Apex, Spaceports and Spidersilk, Cortland Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Spry, and Underwood Press, among others. He’s a high school teacher, a father, and a husband. You can connect with him via twitter at @marcuswhalbring and learn more about his work.