Bio: Kurt Newton's poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Space & Time, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Dreams and Nightmares, and Spectral Realms. His recent collections include Songs of the Underland, A Troubled Sleep, The Ever-Evolving Alphabet, and The Body Snatchers. A new collection, Moonlight Apocrypha, is forthcoming from Island of Wak-Wak. An illustrated collection, Denizens of the Cityscape, will appear later this year from Lycan Valley Press.
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Bio: Chris Pavey is a teacher from the South West of England, where he lives with his wife and three children. He generally writes poetry for his own amusement, and this is his first time being published.
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Bio: Born to Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants, Kelley Tai (she/her) is a speculative fiction writer and a 2024 CSFFA Aurora Award-nominated poet. She is the Founding Editor of Bramble & Crow Books and the Managing Editor, Online at Augur Society. In her free time, Kelley enjoys cuddling with her two kitties, playing around with mechanical keyboards, and traveling to unforgettable destinations.
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Bio: Kim Whysall-Hammond is a Londoner who lives deep in the English countryside. She has worked in both Climate Research and the technical side of Telecommunications. A lifelong love of SF led her to speculative poetry. Her poetry has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways, Dreams and Nightmares, Frozen Wavelets, Kaleidotrope, On Spec, Silver Blade, Star*line and others. She also has poems in anthologies from Milk and Cake Press and Brigids Gate Press. She won joint Third in the 2023 Dwarf Star Award. Her debut pamphlet, Messages from the Road, was published by Palewell Press in late 2024. Find her on Bluesky @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social
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Bio: Sterling Blue is an emerging writer who likes dipping their fingers into all of the different writing categories—fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and even literary analysis essays. With a Bachelor's in English Education and a Master's in English, they love learning and teaching the art of writing. “Soft” is their first published work in an official magazine.
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Bio: Oliver Smith is a visual artist and writer from Cheltenham, UK. He is inspired by Tristan Tzara, J G Ballard, and Max Ernst; by the poetry of chance encounters, by frenzied rocks towering above the silent swamp; by unlikely collisions between place and myth and memory.
His poetry has been published in ‘Abyss & Apex’, ‘Ink, Sweat, and Tears’, ‘Strange Horizons’ and ‘Sylvia Magazine’ and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
He holds a PhD in Literary and Critical Studies from the University of Gloucestershire.
For more information see his website: https://oliversimonsmithwriter.wordpress.com
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Bio: Multiple nominated and award-winning author Colleen Anderson has works widely published in seven countries, such as in Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, and the award-winning Shadow Atlas. Her Rhysling winning poem “Machine (r)Evolution” is in Tenebrous Press’s Brave New Weird, and she has won SFPA’s dwarf poetry contest for two years. Colleen lives in Vancouver, BC, and her poetry collections The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams, I Dreamed a World, and Weird Worlds, plus fiction collections A Body of Work and Embers Amongst the Fallen are available online. Her fourth poetry book, Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins is coming in late 2025.
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Bio: Leslie Golding Mastroianni holds an M.Ed in Counseling. Along with working with troubled families she has led creative writing workshops at Bloomsburg University, elementary schools, and many “senior” facilities. Her work has been published multiple times in various literary journals, including Pennsylvania Literary Journal and Jewish Literary Journal.
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Bio: HAMANT SINGH is a Singaporean writer who is inspired by the Sublime in horror, different cultures and the occult. Andromeda Dreams(2024) is his fifth release after The Sibyl (2002), CHAOS: RRR(2023), NÁUSEA | CONFESIÓN (2023) and VALTOHA (2024).
After a poem was nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association, The Sibyl was listed on the preliminary ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection). In 2023, The Sibyl was also nominated for the Elgin Award.
Hamant currently resides in Guadalajara, Mexico where he is currently working on an art/poetry collaboration with Irish artist, Shane Reilly and other different projects.
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Bio: Sheikha A. is from Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. Her poetry has been published in various literary venues, both print and online, including several anthologies by different presses. Her poetry has been translated into 8 languages so far. More about her can be found at sheikha82.wordpress.com
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Bio: Clarabelle Miray Fields is a Rhysling-nominated, award-winning speculative writer from Boulder, Colorado, whose work has appeared in Corvid Queen, Circe’s Cauldron, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in classical languages (summa cum laude, 2018) and often writes at the intersection of feminism and ancient myth. She currently serves as editor-in-chief for Carmina Magazine, a publication dedicated to modern mythmaking. When not writing, she enjoys being active outdoors, reading, and drinking the darkest coffee she can find. Connect with her on Instagram @cfieldswriting or through her website at https://clarabellefields.com.
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Bio: Frank William Finney is an award-winning poet from Massachusetts who taught literature in Thailand for 25 years. His poems have appeared in CommuterLit, The Frogmore Papers, long con magazine, Parcham Magazine, Penmen Review, Seventh Quarry Press, Ultramarine Literary Review, Viridine Literary, and elsewhere. His chapbook The Folding of the Wings was published in 2022.
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Bio: Amelia is a mom of six with her Master's in marine biology. She has been published as a scientific writer in research journals and as a fiction writer in Starward Shadows Quarterly ezine and Black Hare Press Anthology Year Four.
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Bio: Native New Yorker and award-winner, LindaAnn LoSchiavo is a member of British Fantasy Society, HWA, SFPA, and The Dramatists Guild.
Titles published in 2024: “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems” [Wild Ink], “Apprenticed to the Night” [UniVerse Press], and “Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide” [Ukiyoto].
Forthcoming: “Cancer Courts My Mother” [Prolific Pulse Press, 2025].
Book Accolades earned: Elgin Award for “A Route Obscure and Lonely” and the Chrysalis BREW Project’s Award for Excellence & Readers' Choice Award for “Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems” and the Spotlyts Story Award from Spotlyts Magazine for "Apprenticed to the Night.
Website: https://vampireventurespoems.com/
Blue Sky: @ghostlyverse.bsky.social
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Bio: Mea Andrews is a writer from Georgia, who currently resides in Shenzhen. She has just finished her MFA from Lindenwood University and is only recently back on the publication scene. You can find her in Gordon Square Review, Rappahannock Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Potomac Review, and others. She was a 2022 Pushcart prize nominee, and has a poem currently up for Best of the Net. She has two chapbooks and poetry collections available for publication, should anyone be interested.
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Bio: Kate Sullivan likes to play around with words, music and pictures. She has written and illustrated two children’s books, On Linden Square (Sleeping Bear Press) and What Do You Hear?(Schiffer), sung chansons at NYC Mme Tussaud’s Wax Museum and her Fugitum est was performed at Carnegie Hall by The Kremlin Chamber Orchestra as part of their tribute to Mozart. Her poems, essays and paintings have appeared in Flash Frog, Loud Coffee Press, Rush Literary among others. Her flash Mudlarking at the Beauport was nominated for a Pushcart prize.
She also paints ostriches and plays the musical saw to impress people.
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Bio: Anna Remennik is a chemical engineer working in Silicon Valley, and enjoys writing poems about automatic titrators, technical supply chain processes, and occasionally even more fantastical things. Her work has recently appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Radon Journal, and New Myths.com (including a poem nominated for the Rhysling Award) and was awarded third prize at the 2022 Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry. She can be found at https://annaremennik.wordpress.com/
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Bio: Makena Metz is a Writer & Songwriter for the Page, Screen, and Stage. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Chapman University. Her prose and poetry have been published with The Literary Hatchet, The Clockhouse Review, For Page and Screen, The Fantastic Other, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Arkana, Strange Horizons, and many more. Find her work @ makenametz on social media and check out makenametz.com
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Bio: Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts. More of her work appears in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Vastarien, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov's, Nightmare Magazine, and others. Her speculative 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.
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Bio: Helen Victoria Murray is a Glaswegian writer. An interdisciplinarian, she writes across fiction, poetry and criticism. She is interested in weird houses, obsolete formats and bodies with intangible boundaries. As Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University, Helen unites scholarly and creative fields by researching themes of embodiment, materiality and temporality.
Helen has recently published work in theHythe, Feast Zine, Occulum, Seedlings, and the fiction anthology And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel.
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Bio: Sarah Cannavo is a writer haunting southern New Jersey. Her poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Eye to the Telescope, 34 Orchard, and Daikaijuzine, among others, and has been nominated for the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars Awards. Her story “Unreality” and novella “Wolf of the Pines” are available now on Amazon. She’s been rumored to post on her site The Moody Muse at www.moodilymusing.blogspot.com, and occasionally been sighted Tweeting @moodilymusing. If you listen closely on moonless nights, you may be able to hear her screaming “DAENERYS DESERVED BETTER” into the darkness.
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Bio: Angela Acosta, Ph.D. (she/her) is a bilingual Mexican American poet and Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention, and Utopia Award nominee. Her poetry has appeared in Copihue Poetry, The Acentos Review, Shoreline of Infinity, and Radon Journal. She is author of Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness (Red Ogre Review, 2023).
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Bio: Bernardo Villela lives in Wilmington, Delaware. He’s had short fiction included in periodicals such as LatineLit, Penumbra Online and Horror Tree and in anthologies such as We Deserve to Exist, Dismember the Coop and There's More of Us Than You Know. He’s had original poetry published by Phantom Kangaroo, Straylight, and Raven’s Quoth Press and translations published by Mantis, AzonaL, Red Fern Review. You can find his other works here: https://linktr.ee/bernardovillela.
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Bio: Daniel Christensen is a caregiver residing in Central Florida. He is an author of poetry, science fiction and high fantasy stories. His poem "Of Colors" was featured on Book XI and his poem "Brooklyn" won the Editor's Choice Award for The Last Stanza Magazine and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2025. His poem "End of Summer" was published by Bramble Online Journal. His poem "The Urban Wasteland" was published by A Sufferers Digest. His poem "This Small Universe" was published by Trollbreath Magazine.
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Bio: Arvee Fantilagan grew up in the Philippines, lives in Japan, and has more of his works at sites.google.com/view/arveef. He hopes to write a better bio someday.
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Bio: Charles Richard Livesay is a teacher from Knoxville, TN. He is just beginning his publishing career. He watches birds, reads books, and sometimes forgets to take out his earbuds when he falls asleep. The music leads him into some interesting dreams.
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Bio: Miranda Jensen is a creative activist with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through her writing and critical theory, she seeks not merely to interpret the world, but to change it. Her work has been published in Nature Futures, Across the Margin, Snowflake Magazine, and Rough Cut Press, among others. You can find her at www.mirandajensen.com and on X @MirandaLJensen.
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Bio: John C. Mannone has poems in Windhover, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry South, Sublimation, Snakeskin, and others. He won the Dwarf Stars Award (2020) and was awarded an HWA Scholarship (2017). Among his 10 collections (5 full-length) is Sacred Flute (Iris Press, 2024), which is a semifinalist for the 2025 Tennessee Book Award (as well as an Elgin nominee). Dark Wind, Dark Water, a horror fiction collection, is forthcoming from Mind’s Eye Publishing (2025). He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and Silver Blade. He’s a semi-retired professor of physics in East Tennessee.
http://jcmannone.wordpress.com
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Bio: Ngo Binh Anh Khoa is a teacher of English in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In his free time, he enjoys reading fiction and writing speculative poems, some of which have appeared in Weirdbook, Star*Line, Spectral Realms, Eye to the Telescope, and other venues.
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Bio: Larina Warnock is a neurodivergent writer with an autoimmune disease. She lives in Southern Oregon with her husband, three dogs, and a turtle older than she is. Larina's work has appeared in MetaStellar, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Space & Time, Abyss & Apex, and others.
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Bio: R.M. Cain is a poet originally from upstate New York, now residing in Charlotte, NC. When she’s not writing, R.M. enjoys traveling to new destinations, visiting museums, and spending time outdoors.
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Bio: Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared around the world and been translated into several languages. From time to time, it gets included in Year's Best volumes or shortlisted for awards. He currently resides in Germany and can be found at www.caselberg.net.
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Bio: Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She’s a Nebula, British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick Award, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was also announced in the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.
Bio: Dominique Hecq is a widely anthologised and award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator. She lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land in Melbourne, Australia. Hecq writes in English and French. Her creative works comprise a novel, six collections of short stories and seventeen books of poetry. Otopos is her latest publication. Among other honours, Hecq is the recipient of the James Tate Poetry Prize.
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Bio: Max Hunt is a queer and neurodivergent writer/artist from Mississippi. His fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in december, CRAFT, One Teen Story, BreakBread, Mistake House, The Blue Route, and elsewhere. Max is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
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Bio: Amanda Williams is a PhD student researching acid-resistant bacteria that form biofilms and navigate barriers. Her writing journey began on Archive of Our Own, where her work has reached over 350,000 readers. She has published pieces in smaller anthologies and recently shifted focus to longer projects. She is currently working with her agent to publish Tea & Time Loops, a speculative novel blending cozy mystery and light magic.
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Bio: David C. Kopaska-Merkel, a retired geologist, won the 2006 Rhysling award for best long poem (for a collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits and publishes Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986). He has edited Star*line, an issue of Eye To The Telescope, several Rhysling anthologies, co-edited the 2023 Dwarf Stars anthology, and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems have been published in Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and more than 200 other venues. Some Disassembly Required, a collection of dark speculative poetry, won the 2023 Elgin award. His latest collection, Unwholesome Guests, was published in 2024 by Weird House.
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Bio: Hannan Khan—a nefelibata, poet, and scholar of Literature & Linguistics from Pakistan—known for turning raw emotions into vigorous words. He combs through moments of love, death, introspection, and relational complexities, seraphically uncovering beauty in the unnoticed & unsaid flickers. A pause, a thought, a new perception—Hannan’s work invites readers to see the sublime. His poetry has been featured in Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu and IHRAM Publishes Literary Magazine & is forthcoming in Graveside Press.
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Bio: Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire, England, and writes poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies, including: Poet's Market, Mslexia, Modern Haiku, Femku, The Binnacle, Black Hare Press, Shooter, Journey to Crone, The Great Gatsby Anthology, WAR, and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights.
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