Authors
Natalia Theodoridou
Natalia Theodoridou has published over a hundred short stories, most of them dark and queer, in magazines such as Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and F&SF, among others. He won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction and has been a finalist for the Nebula Award in the Novelette and Game Writing categories. Natalia was born in Greece, with roots in Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. His debut novel, Sour Cherry is coming in April 2025. Find out more at www.natalia-theodoridou.com.
Natalie Kikić
Natalie Kikić is a speculative fiction writer and daughter of immigrants from the former Yugoslavia. She holds a Bachelors in Slavic Languages & Literatures and writes fiction inspired by her heritage. Originally from California, Natalie has called several places home, but she currently lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her husband and two polydactyl cats.
Nico Martinez Nocito
Martinez Nocito (they/them) writes speculative fiction and poetry with a queer, feminist bent. Their work has been published by Strange Horizons, Worlds of Possibility, and Flame Tree Press, and has been nominated for the Rhysling Award. Learn more about Nico and their writing on Bluesky and Instagram @nicowritesbooks, or on their website, nicomartineznocito.com.
Nnadi Samuel
Nnadi Samuel (he/him/his) holds a B.A in English and Literature from the University of Benin. His works have been previously published or is forthcoming in FIYAH, Fantasy Magazine, Star*Line Fiction & Poetry, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine and elsewhere. He is also the winner of the Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writers 2021 (University of Louisville), Penrose Poetry Prize 2021, Lakefly Poetry Contest 2021 (Wisconsin), International Human Right Arts Festival Award 2021, and Canadian Open Drawer contest 2020, and he received an honorable mention for the 2021 Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prize (College Category). He reads for U-Right Magazine and tweets @Samuelsamba10.
Oladosu Michael Emerald
Oladosu Michael Emerald is a writer, artist, photographer, and actor. He is the author of Every Little Thing That Moves and serves as an editor at Uncanny Magazine and Surging Tide. A Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association member, 3X Best of the Net nominee, and 3X Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the Sine Qua Non Inaugural Poetry Prize (2025), Stephen DiBiase Poetry Prize (2026), Off the Limit Contest (2023), SprinNG Poetry Contest (2024), Garden Party Collective Neurodivergent Poetry Contest (2025), and first-runner-up of Sande Poetry Prize (2025). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chestnut Review, FIYAH, ONLY POEMS, Asimov’s, Bournemouth Journal, Temz Review, and elsewhere. He is a pioneer resident of the Muktar Aliyu Art Residency and the Rongo Art Residency, and a fellow of The Ugly Collective. He tweets @garricologist on X and @oladosu_michael_emerald on Instagram.
Olumide Manuel
Olumide Manuel is a poet, educator and an environmentalist. He is a 2x nominee of Pushcart award, a Best of Net nominee and the winner of the Ake Climate Change Poetry Prize 2022. His poems have been recently published on A Long House, Waccamaw Journal, Fiyah Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Barrelhouse, Full House Literary, and elsewhere.
Overcomer Ibiteye
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).
Oyeleye Mahmoodah Temitope
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.
P. H. Low
P. H. Low is an Ignyte-, Rhysling-, and Locus-nominated Malaysian American writer and poet whose debut novel, These Deathless Shores, is now out from Orbit Books (US) and Angry Robot (UK). Their shorter work is published or forthcoming in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy Magazine, and Diabolical Plots, among others. P. H. has a bad habit of moving cities every few years, but can be found online at phlow.com.
P.A. Cornell
P.A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian speculative fiction writer who penned her first science-fiction story as a third-grade assignment (for those curious, it was about shape-shifting aliens). A member of SFWA and graduate of the Odyssey writing workshop, her short fiction has appeared in several professional anthologies and genre magazines. Her novella Lost Cargo is forthcoming from Mocha Memoirs Press. A complete bibliography can be found at pacornell.com.