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John Joseph Adams is the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and is the editor of more than thirty anthologies, such as Wastelands, The Living Dead, and The Dystopia Triptych. He is also the editor the Hugo Award-winning Lightspeed, and is also publisher of Lightspeed as well as its sister-magazines Nightmare and Fantasy. In addition to his short fiction work, he’s a producer for WIRED’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, and for five years he was the editor of the John Joseph Adams Books novel imprint for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Learn more at johnjosephadams.com.

Bendi Barrett (he/him) is a speculative fiction writer and SFWA member, game maker, and self-described “scruffy weirdo” living in Chicago. He’s published two interactive novels with Choice of Games: Avatar of the Wolf (2017) and Fate of the Storm Gods (2021). Under the pseudonym Benji Bright he’s published gay erotic fiction works including several fairly filthy zines and an ongoing patreon. His older brother once called him a “slick pig” and he’s still dining out on that one. Semi-frequently on twitter, @bendied. His novella EMPIRE OF THE FEAST is out now via Neon Hemlock Press.

Phoebe Barton is a queer trans science fiction writer. Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Analog, Lightspeed, and Kaleidotrope, and she wrote the interactive fiction, Nebula Award-finalist game The Luminous Underground for Choice of Games. She serves as an Associate Editor at Escape Pod, is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, and lives with a robot in the sky above Toronto. She tweets often at @aphoebebarton.

Marie Bilodeau is an Ottawa-based author and storyteller, with eight published books to her name. Her speculative fiction has won several awards and has been translated into French (Les Éditions Alire) and Chinese (SF World). Her short stories have also appeared in various anthologies. In a past life not-so-long ago, she was Deputy Publisher for The Ed Greenwood Group (TEGG). Marie is also a storyteller and has told stories across Canada in theatres, tea shops, at festivals and under disco balls. She’s won story slams with personal stories, has participated in epic tellings at the National Arts Centre, and has adapted classical material.

Sharang Biswas is a writer, artist, and award-winning game designer. He has won IndieCade and IGDN awards for his games, and has showcased interactive works at numerous galleries, museums, and festivals, including Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. His nonfiction writing has appeared in publications such as Eurogamer, Unwinnable, First Person Scholar, Kill Screen, and more. He is the co-editor of Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games (Pelgrane Press, 2020) and Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction (Strange Horizons, 2021). Find him on Twitter at @SharangBiswas.

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors’ hard work to The Night Parade of 100 Demons and the short novel Driftwood. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of The Mask of Mirrors, the first book of the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon.

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, and Predator.

KT Bryski is a Canadian author, playwright, and podcaster. She has stories in many short fiction publications, and her audio dramas Coxwood History Fun Park and Six Stories, Told at Night are available wherever fine podcasts are found. She’s won the Parsec and the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, and she has been shortlisted for the Sunburst Award. KT co-chairs ephemera, a speculative fiction reading series occurring monthly in Toronto (or YouTube, depending on COVID-19).

‘Nathan Burgoine is a tall queer guy who writes mostly shorter queer things, though he has managed four novels in between. His debut SF novel, Light, was a Lambda Literary Finalist, and his first YA novel, Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, was a finalist for the Prix Aurora Award. He’s written dozens of short stories and released his first collection, Of Echoes Born, as well as half a dozen queer romance novellas. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his husband Dan and their rescued husky. You can find him online at NathanBurgoine.com.

Kerry C. Byrne is an autistic, queer and nonbinary writer and award-nominated publisher and editor living in Toronto. They are the Co-Founder and CEO of the Augur Magazine Literary Society, and the Publisher of Augur Magazine. As a writer, their work is forthcoming and/or published in Fantasy Magazine, THIS Magazine, The Temz Review, and others. The rest of the time, they’re diving deep into the endless void that is their homebrew D&D world.

Martin Cahill is an Ignyte Award-nominated science fiction and fantasy writer living in Hell’s Kitchen, NY and works as the Marketing and Publicity Manager for Erewhon Books. He’s a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop of 2014 and a member of the NYC-based writing group, Altered Fluid. You can find his fiction work in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Shimmer Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. His short story, “Godmeat,” appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 anthology. He was also one of the writers on Batman: The Blind Cut from Realm Media. Martin also writes, and has written, book reviews, articles, and essays for Tor.com, Catapult, Ghostfire Gaming, Book Riot, Strange Horizons, and the Barnes and Noble Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog. You can find him online at @mcflycahill90.

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes stories and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. He’s the author of the KANGAROO series of funny science fiction spy thrillers and has written for the Realm originals Echo Park, Ninth Step Murders, and Machina. Curtis’ short fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His homebrew cat feeding robot was displayed in the “Worlds Beyond Here” exhibit at Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum. Visit him online: https://CurtisCChen.com

Mike Chen is a critically acclaimed science fiction author based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut novel Here And Now And Then was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice, CALIBA Golden Poppy, and Compton Crook awards. His other novels include A Beginning At The End, We Could Be Heroes, Light Years From Home, and Star Wars: Brotherhood. He has also contributed to the Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View anthology and covers geek culture for sites like Nerdist, StarTrek.com, and The Mary Sue. In previous lives, Mike worked as a sports journalist covering the NHL, DJ, musician, and aerospace engineer. He lives with his wife, daughter, and many rescue animals.

C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award winning-writer, and the author of The Unbroken, the first book in the Magic of the Lost trilogy. She graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. She’s been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and is some combination thereof as she travels the world. When she’s not writing or working, she’s learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in FIYAH, PodCastle, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Emily Dare is a freelance writer and mad doktor-about-town. She is currently hard at work on her first novel. She’s is in love with biohacking, activism, comics, theology, body horror, prosthetics and sex and the Weird – usually in some combination. Emily occasionally contributes to technology and biohacking blogs as well as various comics-media sites. Find her on Twitter at @TheEmilyDare.

Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling writer of Star Wars: PHASMA, plus Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, The Secrets of Long Snoot, The Perfect Weapon, and Scorched; the Blud series, Servants of the Storm, the HIT series, Wake of Vultures and the Shadow series (as Lila Bowen), and a variety of short stories in anthologies such as Death & Honey, Robots vs. Fairies, Hellboy: an Assortment of Horrors, Violent Ends, Carniepunk, Three Slices, and Last Night a Superhero Saved My Life. With Kevin Hearne, she is the co-writer of the Tales of Pell series. Her first middle grade book, MINE, is out now, with MINECRAFT: MOB SQUAD out soon.

Award-winning author David Demchuk has been writing for print, stage, digital and other media for more than 40 years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother, published in 2017, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Award, the Kobzar Book Award and a Shirley Jackson Award in the Best Novel category. It won the 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in the Adult Fiction category. It was listed in the Globe and Mail’s 100 best books of 2017, came in at #22 in the National Post’s top 99 books of the year and became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.ca.. His troubling new novel RED X was published by Strange Light in August 2021. He is represented by Barbara Berson of the Helen Heller Literary Agency.

Dominique Dickey is a writer, editor, cultural consultant, and Nebula Award-winning RPG hooligan. In addition to creating TRIAL, a narrative courtroom tabletop role-playing game about race in the criminal justice system, and co-creating Tomorrow on Revelation III, a tabletop role-playing game about surviving and building community on a hyper-capitalist space station, Dominique has written for Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Dungeons & Dragons, and Pathfinder. Their fiction has appeared in Anathema Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and Lightspeed Magazine, among other venues. Dominique works as a designer and editor at Monte Cook Games. They live in the DC area, and are always on the hunt for their next idea. You can keep in touch at dominiquedickey.com.

Kate Dollarhyde is a Nebula Award-winning game designer and writer of speculative fiction. Her short stories have been published in Fireside Fiction,  Lackington’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and other magazines. Previously, she was the co-editor-in-chief of the speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons. She is also a narrative designer at Obsidian Entertainment, where she’s written for The Outer Worlds and the Pillars of Eternity series. She lives in California.

Christiana Ellis is an award-winning writer and podcaster, currently living in Massachusetts. Her podcast novel, Nina Kimberly the Merciless, was both an inaugural nominee for the 2006 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction: Long Form, as well as a finalist for a 2006 Podcast Peer Award. Her latest novel, Phyllis Espositio: Interdimensional Private Eye, released in 2020.

Grace P. Fong (“Fictograph”) a Narrative Designer for Magic the Gathering (Wizards of the Coast), specializing in art writing. Outside of her dayjob, she is 4x Hugo-nominated and Ignyte-winning illustrator and concept artist. She makes covers for speculative fiction publications and promotional material for authors. She also has ten years of technical experience in the video game and animation industries (DreamWorks Animation, Infinity Ward, Electronic Arts).

Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in California. Their nonfiction has been published by dozens of venues internationally including Locus and the Boston Globe. Their fiction has been published internationally in over six different languages. Their debut novel, Magic for Liars, was an LA Times bestseller. Their most recent novel, The Echo Wife, is available now everywhere books are sold. You can find links to their work at sarahgailey.com and on social media at @gaileyfrey.

Geoff Gander has most recently been published by Arkham Gazette, Fat Goblin Games, and elsewhere.

Jaym Gates is a freelance game designer, author, and editor. Her work includes the anthologies War Stories, Strategy Strikes Back, Strange California, Genius Loci, and a number of for-hire anthologies for tabletop and video game settings. She has written for tabletop games including Blue Rose 2nd Ed, Pathfinder 2, Mutants & Masterminds, Firefly, Shadowrun, 13th Age, Tiny Supers, and many more. You can find out more about her at jaymgates.com, or on Twitter as @JaymGates.

Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book, a historical fantasy novel out in February 2022, and the Alice Payne time travel novellas (2018/2019). Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) won Canada’s Aurora Award. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician’s Workshop, published by Choice of Games. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, Locus, Aurora, Sunburst and Crawford awards, and her journalism for a National Newspaper Award. Her short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Lackington’s, Podcastle and elsewhere. A former newspaper journalist, Kate lives near Ottawa, Canada.

Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author whose works include novels, non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. She has won the prestigious RITA® Award from Romance Writers of America (RWA), has been a finalist twice, been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. She is the current President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Karim Kronfli is an actor, known for The Magnus Archives (2016), Vast Horizon (2019) and Unsinkable. He is a frequent voice talent in such projects as The Scottish Podcast and What’s the Frequency, a psychedelic noir drama set in 1940s Los Angeles.

After leaving molecular biology, Derek Künsken worked with street kids in Central America before finding himself in the Canadian foreign service. He now writes science fiction in Gatineau, Québec. His short fiction has appeared in Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, and Asimov’s as well as several year’s best anthologies. His space opera novels are The Quantum Magician, The Quantum Garden, and the start of a duology The House of Styx. Critic Rich Horton describes Derek “as one of the best pure ‘hard science’ writers of the current generation…” Derek co-chairs Ottawa’s award-winning annual speculative fiction conference Can*Con every non-pandemic fall. Derek blogs nerdily about comic books at the fantasy blog Blackgate.com and makes his internet home at DerekKunsken.com.

Brent Lambert is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the transformative power of speculative fiction across media formats. He resides in San Diego but spent a lot of time moving around as a military brat. His family roots are in the Cajun country of Louisiana. Currently, he manages the social media for FIYAH Literary Magazine and just had an anthology produced with Tor.com titled Breathe FIYAH. He has work published with FIYAH, Anathema Magazine, Cotton Xenomorph, Baffling Magazine and upcoming with Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He can be found on Twitter @brentclambert talking about the weird and the fantastic. Ask him his favorite members of the X-Men and you’ll get different answers every time.

Charles Jamie Linton is a game designer, writer, and dramaturg from the San Gabriel Valley. You can find him on itch.io and Twitter at @NearFutures. For more work, visit cjlinton.com.

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time. Darcie’s short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple places, including Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and The Dark. She currently lives on both coasts of the United States and is engaged to a veterinarian.

Victor Manibo is a Filipino speculative fiction writer living in New York. As a queer immigrant and a person of color, he writes about people who live these identities and how they navigate imaginary worlds. He is a 2022 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow, and his debut science fiction noir novel, THE SLEEPLESS, is out now from Erewhon Books. Find him online at victormanibo.com or on Twitter @victormanibo.

Marshall Ryan Maresca is a fantasy and science-fiction writer, author of the Maradaine Saga: Four braided series set amid the bustling streets and crime-ridden districts of the exotic city called Maradaine, which includes The Thorn of Dentonhill, A Murder of Mages, The Holver Alley Crew and The Way of the Shield, and an upcoming dieselpunk fantasy, The Velocity of Revolution. He is also the co-host of the podcast Worldbuilding for Masochists, and has been a playwright, an actor, a delivery driver and an amateur chef. He lives in Austin, Texas with his family.

Seanan McGuire is the author of the October Daye urban fantasies, the InCryptid urban fantasies, and several other works both stand-alone and in trilogies or duologies. In case that wasn’t enough, she also writes under the pseudonym “Mira Grant.” Seanan was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award (now Astounding Award) for Best New Writer, and her novel Feed (as Mira Grant) was named as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2010. In 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo Ballot.

Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is the author of novels ‘Beneath the Rising’ (finalist for Crawford Award, Aurora Award, British Fantasy Award, and Locus Award) and ‘A Broken Darkness,’ and novellas ‘These Lifeless Things,’ ‘And What Can We Offer You Tonight,’ and ‘The Annual Migration of Clouds.’ Her next novel, ‘The Void Ascendant,’ is the final book in the Beneath the Rising trilogy and is due out in March 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on Twitter at @premeesaurus and on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.

Cass Morris works as a writer and educator in central Virginia. Her debut series, The Aven Cycle, is Roman-flavored historical fantasy released by DAW Books. She is also one-third of the team behind the Hugo Award Finalist podcast Worldbuilding for Masochists.

Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing and the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and is published in Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former Poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, is forthcoming from Interstellar Flight Press.

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Suzan Palumbo is a writer, reviewer, ESL teacher, co create of the Ignyte Awards and a member of the Hugo nominated FIYAHCON team. She is also a former associate editor of the illustrious “Shimmer” magazine. Her work has been published in Unfettered Hexes, The Deadlands, The Dark Magazine, PseudoPod, Fireside Fiction Quarterly and various other venues. When she isn’t writing dark fantasy or horror, she can be found sketching, listening to new wave, wandering her local misty forests or gardening. 

Adam Rakunas was born, raised, and educated in Southern California. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest. These things are related. Adam’s debut novel, “Windswept” was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the Secretary of SFWA and works as a paralegal.

Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Their 250+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Their most recent works are And The Last Trump Shall Sound (co-written with James Morrow and Harry Turtledove, Arc Manor) and fantasy novel Exiles of Tabat (Wordfire Press, May, 2021). Forthcoming is space opera You Sexy Thing (Tor Macmillan, September, 2021), as well as an anthology, The Reinvented Heart (Arc Manor, February, 2022),  co-edited with Jennifer Brozek.

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His debut novel, Legacy, followed in 2014. A French translation was published in 2017. His latest novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was released in October 2018 and became a national bestseller.

dave ring is a queer writer of speculative fiction living in Washington, DC.  He is the author of The Hidden Ones (2021, Rebel Satori Press) and numerous short stories. He is also the publisher and managing editor of Neon Hemlock Press, and the co-editor of Baffling Magazine. Find him online at www.dave-ring.com or @slickhop on Twitter.

Dave Robison is a storyteller who has been captivated by tales and legends his entire life. As a voice actor (check his vocal website), he’s performed in dozens of audio drama and fiction productions for EscapePod, Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, and Podcastle, as well as The Drabblecast, Journey Into…, The Way of the Buffalo, and The District of Wonders. His company Wonderthing Studios, LLC, is the launching point for several creative endeavors including Manifest, a board game combining the positional strategy of chess with the fantastical diversity of Magic: The Gathering, and most recently Corpse Coffee (https://corpsecoffee.com/)

Kelly Robson is a Canadian short fiction writer.  She was awarded the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and both the 2019 and 2016 Aurora Awards for best Short Story. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, Astounding, Aurora, and Sunburst awards.

Dave Robison is a storyteller who has been captivated by tales and legends his entire life. As a voice actor (check his vocal website), he’s performed in dozens of audio drama and fiction productions for EscapePod, Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, and Podcastle, as well as The Drabblecast, Journey Into…, The Way of the Buffalo, and The District of Wonders. His company Wonderthing Studios, LLC, is the launching point for several creative endeavors including Manifest, a board game combining the positional strategy of chess with the fantastical diversity of Magic: The Gathering, and most recently Corpse Coffee (https://corpsecoffee.com/)

Avi Silver is a speculative fiction author (Two Dark Moons, 2019; Three Seeking Stars, 2021), editor (Augur Magazine), and poet. Find their short fiction in Common Bonds: An Aromantic Speculative Anthology, and their poetry in Strange Horizons and Uncanny Magazine. In 2018, they co-founded The Shale Project, an award-winning indie arts collective, and have not stopped worldbuilding since. For more information, visit mxavisilver.com. For lizard pictures, follow them on Twitter @thescreambean.

DongWon Song is an agent at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency representing science fiction and fantasy for adults, young adult, and middle grade readers as well as select non-fiction. They were formerly an editor at Orbit, a product manager for an ebook startup, and has taught at institutions including Portland State University and New York University.

Arley Sorg is co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine, Associate Editor and reviewer at Lightspeed & Nightmare, Associate Editor and film/book reviewer at Locus, interviewer at Clarkesworld, and reviewer for Cascadia Subduction Zone. Born in California, Arley grew up in England, Hawaii, and Colorado. He lives in Oakland, CA.

A.P. Thayer is a queer, Mexican-American author based out of Los Angeles who writes cross-genre speculative fiction. His work has been published in Space Fantasy Magazine, Uncharted Magazine, Los Suelos, and Neon Hemlock, among others and he is a full member of SFWA and HWA. Find him at www.apthayer.com or on Instagram and Twitter under the handle @apthayer.

Jake Topolie, a former journalist, now working as a corporate law clerk in Ottawa Ontario, is but a baby wordsmith having two publications. One in the source book for Esoterica – Secretum Mundi and the other in Capers Noir. He is an avid gamer; some of his favourites include Blades in the Dark (and Forged in the Dark games), The One Ring, and Tales from the Loop. He has played in such shows as Emberwind on Gregory A. Wilson’s Twitch channel and Six and Twenty: Metropolis on UnmadeGaming’s channel. When he is not playing games or writing he spends time with his son Alex and his partner Emily.

Sienna Tristen (they/them) is an author, poet, and literary organizer living in Treaty 3 territory who explores queer platonic partnership, the nonhuman world, and mythmaking in their work. Their award-winning fantasy novel The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming came out from indie arts collective The Shale Project in 2018; you can find their poetry in Augur Magazine and Plenitude. When the sun is up, they work with The Word On The Street Toronto to showcase the coolest Canadian & Indigenous literature. They are currently working on their second novel.

Kat Weaver is a writer and illustrator whose short fiction has been published in Apex Magazine, Timeworn Literary Journal, Lackington’s, and elsewhere. Currently, she is one of the senior fiction editors at Strange Horizons, a Hugo-nominated speculative fiction magazine. Neon Hemlock Press recently published her debut novella Uncommon Charm, co-written with her wife, Emily Bergslien (and dedicated to their longtime tabletop RPG group). The two of them live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. You can find her on Twitter @anoteinpink.

Alex White was born in Mississippi and has lived most of their life in the American South. Alex is the author of The Salvagers Trilogy, which begins with A BIG SHIP AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE; as well as official novels for Alien (THE COLD FORGE, INTO CHARYBDIS) and Star Trek (DS9 REVENANT). They enjoy music composition, calligraphy and challenging, subversive fiction.

Gregory A. Wilson is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing and fantasy fiction along with various other courses in literature. His second novel, Icarus, was published in 2020 as two graphic novels, Icarus and Jellinek, by Atthis Arts. His D&D 5E adventure and sourcebook, Tales and Tomes from the Forbidden Library, was also published in 2020, by Alligator Alley Entertainment. Along with Mike Underwood is the co-host of the long-running and critically-acclaimed show Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans, now an actual play podcast.

Alyssa Wong writes fiction, comics, and games. Her stories have won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. She was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and Shirley Jackson Awards. Her comics credits include Marvel, Star Wars, and Adventure Time. She has also written for Overwatch, and Story and Franchise Development at Blizzard Entertainment. Alyssa lives in California and can be found on Twitter as @crashwong.

Irene Zhong (they/them) is a singer-songwriter and composer whose works explore and mythologise how we relate to each other and the ever-changing world. The sound world they inhabit is a delicate chamber folk fusion of Hakka-Chinese melodies and western art music. Right now, Irene is working on a collection of obscure stories and perspectives they have accumulated since their move to Melbourne, Australia, in 2016. You can find more info on them at irenezhong.com.