Authors
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.
Mari Ness
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.
Maria Schrater
Maria Schrater is a writer & poet based in Chicago. Her work can be found in Apparition Lit, Sycorax Journal, Abyss & Apex, and in Air & Nothingness Press’s Wild Hunt and Future Perfect in Past Tense anthologies. She is also Poetry Editor for Apparition Literary Magazine and an associate SFWA member. She especially loves folklore and mythology and often works with retellings. When not writing, she can be found imitating bird calls in the woods. You can find her on Twitter @MariaSchrater or on her website mariaschrater.com.
Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly leans on her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to The Market of 100 Fortunes and The Waking of Angantyr. She is the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of the Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent along with several other series, over ninety short stories, several poems, and the New Worlds series of worldbuilding guides; as half of M.A. Carrick, she has written the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy. For more information and social media, visit linktr.ee/swan_tower.
Marie Vibbert
Marie Vibbert is a Hugo and Nebula finalist with over 90 stories and 3 novels in print. Her works have been translated into Chinese, Czech, and Vietnamese. She fell in love with science fiction when she snuck out of a battered women's shelter and stumbled on a screening of Day the Earth Stood Still in a library basement. This story is a fictionalization of that event. Learn more about her at marievibbert.com.
Marisca Pichette
Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts. She has published more than three hundred pieces of short fiction and poetry, appearing in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, The Deadlands, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov's, Nightmare Magazine, and many others. Her poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and Elgin Awards. Their eco-horror novella, Every Dark Cloud, is out now from Ghost Orchid Press.
Marissa Lingen
Marissa Lingen is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. She lives in Minnesota atop some of the oldest bedrock on the continent. She has an inordinate fondness for apples, tisanes, and Moomins.
Mark A. Fisher
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.
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe
Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, Swan X, is a budding poet from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He has been published in Palette Poetry, Chestnut Review, Electric Literature, Poet Lore, Sontag Magazine, Agbowó, Collaborature, Weganda Review, Cloudscent Journal, Serotonin, Isele, Dawn Review, amongst others. He is the winner of the 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize and co-winner of the 2024 Poetry ColumnNND Chapbook Award. In 2025, he was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize and the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. You can find him listening to his favorite singer Lana del Rey, or writing a poem. He tweets @mesomaccius.
Matt Tighe
Matt Tighe lives on a small farm in New South Wales with his amazing children, his patient spouse, and too many animals. He is an Australian Shadows and Aurealis Award winner, and has been shortlisted for several other awards. You can find more information on Matt at matttighe.weebly.com.