Catherine McCarthy

Catherine McCarthy weaves dark tales on an ancient loom from her farmhouse in West Wales. Her longer works have been published by Dark Matter Ink and Nosetouch Press, and her forthcoming novella Death of a Clown publishes May '25 through Sobelo Books. Her short fiction can be found in various publications, including Gamut Magazine and Dark Matter Magazine. Time away from the loom is spent hiking the Welsh coast path or huddled in an ancient graveyard reading Dylan Thomas or listening to Cthulhu Tales. Find her at https://www.catherine-mccarthy-author.com/ or at https://x.com/serialsemantic.

Catherine Tavares

Catherine Tavares is a speculative fiction author of the sci-fi and fantasy variety and a member of both SFWA and Codex. An avid reader, she spends most of her time haunting the shelves of her local library, but she can on occasion be persuaded to try a new recipe or work on a new knitting project. You can read her work and learn more about her at www.catherinetavares.com.

Chinedu Gospel

Gospel Chinedu is a Nigerian poet from the Igbo descent. He currently is an undergraduate at the College Of Health Sciences, Okofia where he studies Anatomy. He loves music and is a big fan of Isak Danielson. His poems are mostly speculative and cut across different themes. He is a 2021 Starlit Award Winner, 1st Runner Up for the Blurred Genre Contest (Invisible City Lit), 2023, Honorable Mention in the Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Prize, 2023 and also a finalist in the Dan Veach prize for younger poets, 2023. His works of poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Augur Magazine, Fantasy, Fiyah, The Deadlands, Apparition Lit and other places. Gospel tweets @gonspoetry.

Chloe Smith

Chloe Smith works as a middle-school teacher, librarian, and copyeditor, and writes science fiction and fantasy stories despite all that. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she lived in Texas and Washington states, New York City, and rural France before coming back to California. Her short fiction has appeared in Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Daily Science Fiction, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. Her debut novella, Virgin Land, came out from Luna Press Publishing in 2023.

Christi Nogle

Christi Nogle is the author of the Shirley Jackson Award nominated and Bram Stoker Award® winning first novel Beulah as well as three short fiction collections: The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future; Promise: A Collection of Weird Science Fiction; and One Eye Opened in That Other Place.

Her work has also appeared in over fifty publications including Strange Horizons, Apex, PseudoPod, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye.

She is co-editor with Willow Dawn Becker of the Stoker-nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds) and co-editor with Ai Jiang of Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia (Shortwave Publishing).

Follow her at https://christinogle.com and on across social media under the username christinogle.

Christopher Leigh Silverberg

Christopher Leigh Silverberg is a Black, queer, churchy, theater-obsessed poet who helps people make films. He's an incoming MFA student at Hunter College. His work also appears in Callaloo, ANMLY, Memezine, and other outlets. He's grateful to his teachers at Hunter, Columbia, and Cave Canem. He's currently at work writing American histories joyously and Afropessimistically, telling his life story through other people's art, and practicing spells to unweave the wolf. See more work at Christophersilverberg.com.

Claire McNerney

Claire McNerney is an actor, student, and writer from California, where she currently attends UCSD. She enjoys, among other things, sitting outside in the evenings. Follow her on Twitter @claire_mcnerney or Instagram @o.h.c.l.a.i.r.e to say hello and see what she does next!

Clara Burghelea

Clara Burghelea has published two poetry collections: The Flavor of the Other (Dos Madres Press 2020) and Praise the Unburied (Chaffinch Press 2021). Her poems and translations have been published in Goalf Coast, Delos, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. She is the Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation and a thirdyear PhD student in Literature at University of Texas at Dallas.

Colleen Anderson

Colleen Anderson is an Aurora, Rhysling, Dwarf Stars and Elgin award nominee, with work published in seven countries, in such venues as Andromeda Spaceways, Space and Time, and the award-winning Shadow Atlas and Water: Sirens, Selkies & Sea Monsters. Her poem, Machine (r)Evolution is part of Tenebrous Press’s 2023 Brave New Weird. She lives in Vancouver, BC and is a Ladies of Horror Fiction, Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant recipient. She is author of two fiction collections, Embers Amongst the Fallen and A Body of Work, and two poetry collections, I Dreamed a World and The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams. colleenanderson.wordpress.com.

Connie La-Huynh

Connie La-Huynh is a writer with a penchant for the dark, strange, and subversive. She lives in a cottage in the foothills of a California mountain with her husband, many books, and an old cat who guards the house from all things that go bump in the night.