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: Colleen Anderson has been widely published across eight countries, with works appearing in publications such as Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, Amazing, and Shadow Atlas. Rhysling Award winner for “Machine (r)Evolution” and a two-time winner of the SFPA’s dwarf poetry contest, she has been nominated for Pushcart, Elgin, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars Awards. She is a Canada Council, BC Arts Council and Ladies of Horror Fiction grant recipient. Her poetry collections include The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams, I Dreamed a World, Weird Worlds, and Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins. Her fifth collection is coming from Lycan Valley Press in Fall 2026.
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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].
New releases for 2025: “Cancer Courts My Mother” [Prolific Pulse Press, November 2025] and "Vampire Verses" [Twisted Dreams Press, October 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. She has published more than three hundred pieces of short fiction and poetry, appearing in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, The Deadlands, Asimov's, Lightspeed, 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. 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
https://www.facebook.com/jcmannone/
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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. He also writes haiku and has previously won awards and achieved honorable mentions in international contests in the US, the UK, Japan, Canada, and elsewhere.
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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. He combs through moments of love, death, delirium & relational complexities, seraphically tracing what’s breathed and what flickers unbreathed. His pen grooves between haibun & heartbreak, ghazals & ghost games, intimacy & apocalypse. When he craves reprieve, he devours dark thrillers like he’s dissecting crime scenes — psychological, raw, unpredictable. He thrives on distorting ordinary until it sings. Sips coffee, reads Manto & lets the world unravel. His work has appeared in Failed Haiku, IHRAM Literary Magazine, Graveside Press, SpecPoVerse, Eye To The Telescope, Abyss & Apex, The Headlight Review, The /tƐmz/ Review, The Literary Hatchet, Notch Magazine, Winds Of Asia, Zoetic Press, Uncanny Magazine & is forthcoming in Native Voices Anthology. Poetry is his altar; Fiction, his rebellion. He writes to unsettle, to unearth, to unlace. For a glimpse into his life, find him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannan.khan.official
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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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Bio: Ariya Bandy is a writer of speculative poetry and fiction whose work appears in Nightmare Magazine, 100-Foot Crow, Stone Circle Review, The Horror Tree, and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook, Painted Winds, is out from Bottlecap Press. Find her online at @storyofariya or on ariyabandy.com.
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Bio: D.A. Cooper is a poet from Texas. In addition to SpecPoVerse, his poetry and translations have recently appeared in Light, Lighten Up Online, Illuminations of the Fantastic, New Verse Review, and THINK, among others. He enjoys translating dialect poetry from Italy, watching The Office, and looking at trees.
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Bio: S. C. Williams (she/her) lives in Indiana with her family and works in the circulation department of her local library. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in Library and Information Science. Her writing has previously appeared in The Crow's Quill, Divinations Magazine, Grey Coven Publishing Anthology, and elsewhere. You can find more on her website at sarahchristinewilliams.com.
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Bio: Christabel Simpson writes in various genres. She was born in England to parents with a love of romantic poetry (hence the name), but spent her teens in America. She returned to England to study at university and has a BA in English Literature and Dance. She started writing seriously at school when one of her teachers told her she had a flair for it and has been doing it ever since. Other interests include live performance (seeing and creating), music, ancient Egypt, paranormal research, cosplay and photography. She currently lives in London with her gorgeous girlfriend and black cat, Spike.'
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Bio: Shikhandin is the pen name of an Indian author of 7 books, including The Woman on the Red Oxide Floor (Red River Story, India), Impetuous Women (Penguin-RHI), Immoderate Men (Speaking Tiger, India), Vibhuti Cat (Duckbill-Penguin India). Shikhandin’s sci-fi/speculative fiction have appeared in ‘A Dying Planet’ (Flametree Press), ‘Avatar’ (Future Fiction), After Dinner Conversation, Reckoning, Sybil’s Garage, Silver Blade, Enchanted Conversation, Grandpa’s Deep Space Diner, SpecPoVerse, and elsewhere. She has won awards and honours in India and abroad for her prose and poetry, and is widely published in online and print journals and anthologies worldwide. .
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Bio: Bryant O'Hara is a programmer, poet, and musician - not always in that order. His poetry has been published in Star*Line Magazine, Eyedrum Periodically, Space & Time Magazine, FIYAH , Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022, and SpaceFunk! anthology. His poetry collection, The Ghettobirds, was published by Frayed Edge Press. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with his wife Alice, two out of seven children, and one out of six grandchildren. To listen to more of Bryant's poems and other audio pieces, please visit https://soundcloud.com/bryant-ohara and intimateandintricate.com
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Bio: Mary K Gowdy is the poet behind the collections Sensuality., Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going, and Leftover Thoughts. Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as The Anti-Misogyny Club and Sheila-Na Gig and in the indie anthology Writing Out Our Twenties. She also has published two fantasy novels in her epic series The One and the Other. When not writing, she enjoys being in nature, listening to music, and convincing her friends that poetry is nothing to be afraid of.
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Bio: Ashley Delvento is a software engineer and writer born and raised in Connecticut. She works to combine these two fields, using the lens of computers to explore what they can tell us about humanity. Her poetry has been previously published in "The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics" and "The Laurel".
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Bio: Leyelle is an African American and Dominican author and artist from Maryland, USA, raised in part in her ancestral home of the Dominican Republic. Author of the Turnill prize-winning short story “Rain Dance” and the novel “Damsel in the Red Dress,” she’s passionate about telling a story, in any form or medium needed to express the beauty and complexity of life and human emotions.
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Bio: James Machell is a British writer, born in London and matured in Seoul. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and the outreach manager for Utopia Science Fiction Magazine for which he gets to interview his favourite writers and artists, including P. Djèlí Clark, Ken Liu, and Samuel R. Delany. He is also the contest chair for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.
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Bio: Frederick Charles Melancon is a native of Louisiana but currently lives in Mississippi with his wife and daughter.
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Bio: The creative work of M. Frost appears in SpecPoVerse, Strange Horizons, Orion’s Belt, Eye to the Telescope and many others, with chapbooks Cow Poetry (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and The Women of Myth (Island of Wak-Wak, 2025), as well as a collaboration with artist-brother, Constellation (CreateSpace, 2013). Explore further at mfrostwords.com and follow @mfrostwords.bsky.social.
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Bio: Fariel Shafee considers herself a true mixed pot -- born in South Asia to people who came to the land in various eras, she lived in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Her degrees are in physics and math from MIT and Princeton. However, she spends a substantial amount of her time in imaginary and often dark worlds. Her writing has been published by 34 Orchard, Parabnormal, Eccentric Orbits 5, Deracine etc. She has also won awards for art. Her website is https://fshafee.wixsite.com/farielsart
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Bio: Heather is a multi-genre, working-class writer from Yorkshire. She is published by Oxford Flash Fiction, Fictive Dream, Bath Flash Fiction, The Phare, and numerous others and has won or been placed in several competitions. She is also a visual artist and lives with her husband, who valiantly jostles for space with her creative clutter.
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Bio: Nicholas De Marino needs a hug. Poetry in Dreams & Nightmares and Horrific Scribblings. Fiction in BULL and Hell Itself. Monthly column (fnord) in foofaraw. ¡Viva SFPA y Codex! No awards but some nominations. More at nicholasdemarino.blogspot.com.
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Bio: Christina Ladd (she/her) is a writer and editor who lives in Minneapolis. She will eventually die crushed under a pile of books, but until then she survives on a concerning amount of tea and carbs. Find more of her writing at christinaladd.com
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Bio: Kopratic is an agender poet who loves to read and write about strange and bizarre things in speculative fiction. In addition to writing poetry, Kopratic also teaches ESL by day.
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Bio: Diem Okoye is a writer and teacher whose work has appeared in The Gay and Lesbian Review, Reckoning, Liber Review, and other literary journals. She has been awarded second place in the Blue Mesa Review Spring 2025 Contest Issue and was nominated for the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award for speculative poetry. In addition to her writing, she works as a copy editor. She lives with two German Shepherds and two neurotic cats.
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Bio: Brian Hugenbruch is the author of more than sixty speculative fiction stories and poems. He enjoys fishing (but only in video games); Scotch (but only in real life), and he spends his days trying to explain quantum cryptography to other nerds. You can find him online at https://the-lettersea.com, and on social media under similar handles. No, he's not certain how to say his last name either.
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Bio: Fendy is an art worker from Malang, Indonesia. He works with words and music to study how time feels different to people, and how connections linger even when they’re gone. By day, he sells motorcycles. By night, he makes moody music as Nep Kid and writes stories in different forms. His art lives in the gap between words and true feelings.
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Bio: Stephanie Latini (publishing as SR Deado) is a poet and speculative writer rooted in the wilds of New Hampshire. Her work lingers in the strange space between memory and invention, exploring time, identity, and transformation through a surreal, sci-fi lens. She is currently developing The Verge Cycle, a poetic mythos of fractured timelines, alternate realities, and quiet revolutions—where the impossible feels intimate and the future, deeply personal.
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Bio: Jennifer Ruth Jackson is a poet and fictionist with cerebral palsy. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Algebra of Owls, Apex Magazine, and more. Domestic Bodies, her literary poetry collection, came out in 2023 from Querencia Press. When she isn't writing (or engaging in activism), you can find her crafting a variety of things or playing video games with her husband. Follow her on Bluesky or Instagram: @jenruthjackson.
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Bio: Mark Thomas is a writer and artist from St. Catharines Canada. His latest book is “Next to Ewe,” published by Between the Lines. Check out his work at https://flamingdogshit.com
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Bio: Melba is a Dominican-American poet and author of Unplanted Yet Flourishing: A Poetic Journey Through Infertility, Loss & Healing. Through raw, nature-rooted poetry and ancestral symbolism, her work invites readers into the quiet, often unseen spaces of grief, resilience, and self-discovery. She is the founder of Poetic Nectar Collective, a creative space centered on healing through words, ritual, and connection. Melba’s poetry is deeply personal yet universally felt, offering comfort to those navigating the complexities of womanhood, identity, and longing. Her voice is both tender and powerful, grounded in truth and a deep reverence for nature.
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Bio: Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Scientific American, NewMyths and Michigan Quarterly, and in the anthologies Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her latest book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe, is out now from Autonomedia.
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Bio: Kinno (she/they) is a Black woman and writer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She mostly exist as a sentient zombie in the daytime, when not doing other random and other related tasks. She currently serves as Poetry Editor the Literally Lit Mag. Their poetry appears in a gathering together, the Decolonial Passage, MIDLVLMAG, the Cade Cod Review (forthcoming), Aothen, and other places. Their fiction appears in Mystic Owl Magazine and in MIDLVLMAG. Follow her blog and their website https://poetkinno.wixsite.com/poet-kinno and on instagram at @poetkinno.
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Bio: M.C. Childs’ poems have appeared in dozens of magazines and collections, and have won awards from the Speculative Fiction Poetry Association. Prof. Childs’ award-winning urban design books include Foresight and Design, The Zeon Files: Art and Design of Historic Route 66 Signs, Urban Composition, and Squares: A Public Space Design Guide.
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Bio: Lily Hunger is a Northeast Ohio writer. When not braving the ever-shifting elements of Midwestern weather or working at a local university, she procrastinates writing. Some tenacious ideas have managed to make it through to the page, however, resulting in some of her recent stories and poems to appear or be forthcoming in Corvid Queen, EveryDay Fiction, and The Ammonite Review.
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Bio: D.A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as NY, Hawai’i, various parts of Asia and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached. She has a Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology, writes speculative fiction and poetry, teaches martial arts and paints fantastical art in sumi ink and acrylic. Her stories appear in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Nature and Galaxy’s Edge—and have been selected for The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories and The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time Stories. Her poetry has been nominated for the Dwarf Star, Rhysling, Best of the Net and Pushcart Awards. Website: daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com
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Bio: Rebecca Miles Henson (she/they) is a British author of place-based and evocative literary fiction. She is a graduate of London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has lived in France, Brisbane and London, and is currently based in South Wales, where she resides in an ancient, crumbling cottage with her partner, little boy, and dog. ‘The Cracks We See Through’, published by Compassiviste, Feb 2025, is her first novel.
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Bio: John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Leading Edge, Amazing Stories and Illumen. Latest books, “Between Two Fires” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Has won a Rhysling award for genre poetry.
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Bio: Jane McCarthy is a ghostwriter and poet. She's a winner of Havok Publishing's Season 11 contest and will appear in their anthology. A Silver Honorable Mention was received from the Writers of the Future Contest. Jane is also a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her published works can be read via her portfolio: https://janemccarthydna.medium.com
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Bio: Simon MacCulloch lives in London and contributes poetry to a variety of print and online publications, including Spectral Realms, Aphelion, Black Petals, Yellow Mama and many others.
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Bio: Maryan Dasal writes poetry under the name introverse. Her poems and prose draw attention to raw human emotion and its strong parallels to nature. When she’s not lost in verse and beating her dayjob deadlines, she tends to her little bookstore in the heart of Manila.
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Bio: Joel is an English speculative fiction writer. Grimdark Magazine described his self published debut as "tantalisingly dark and brutal".
His short fiction publications include pieces in the Space Wizard Science Fantasy anthology “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, the Air and Nothingness collection “Our Dust Earth”, Nature:Futures, ‘Big Smoke Pulp vol 1’, Pulp Lit Mag, Wensum Lit, & Altered Reality.
His wider repertoire includes satire (PULP Lit Mag), Creative NonFiction (Epistemic Literary), poetry (Radon, Limerick in Chains), and cultural commentary (Swords and Sorcery Magazine, The Drift).
This poem occurs in the Nine Realms of Reality setting, which includes a novel, three novellas, and a short story collection.
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Bio: Richard Magahiz tries to live an ordered life in harmony with all things natural and created but one that follows unexpected paths. He's spent his time first as a physicist, then wrangling computers as a day job, but now when he's not making music he is writing. His work has received nominations for Rhysling, Dwarf Stars, Pushcart, and Best of the Web awards. His chapbook collection The Reducing Flame was published in 2025. His website is at https://zeroatthebone.us/. .
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Bio: Eva Hays is from New Hampshire, USA, currently getting her MSc in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. When she isn't staring at her computer, she enjoys hiking, playing ukulele, and drowning herself in coffee. Her writing appears in HAD and Factor Four Magazine, among others. Find more of her work at evahays.com.
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Bio: Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. She is the author of the Elgin Award-winning poetry chapbook The Inca Weaver’s Tales (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024) and the fantasy novella Thrice Petrified (Of Metal and Magic Publishing, 2025). Her poems have been nominated for the Rhysling Award and Pushcart Prize and appear in Asimov’s, HWA Poetry Showcase, and elsewhere. She is the daughter of an Ecuadorian immigrant to the U.S. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.
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Bio: Stephen C. Curro is a total nerd from Fort Collins, Colorado. His poetry and fiction have appeared with Scifaikuest, Shelter of Daylight, and NewMyths, among other venues. When he's not writing, he's probably reading or plotting his next scuba adventure. You can keep up his shenanigans at www.stephenccurro.com.
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Bio: Beatriz Seelaender is a Brazilian author from São Paulo. Her novellas "The Austenites" and "All According to Norm" have earned her the Sandy Run and the Bottom Drawer prizes. You can read her poems, short stories, and essays in magazines such as Cagibi and Inverted Syntax, or follow her instagram @slanderdawg for updates. She is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Classical Reception Studies.
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Bio: Pixie Bruner (HWA/SFPA/DWS) is a writer, editor, and cancer survivor. She lives in Atlanta, GA, with her doppelgänger and deranged cats. Editor Memento Mori Ink Magazine’s “Morsus Vitae”, her Elgin-nominated poetry book The Body As Haunted was published in 2024. (Authortunities Press). Her words are in from Space & Time Magazine, Hotel Macabre Vol. 1 (, Amazing Stories, Star*Line, Weird Fiction Quarterly, Abyss & Apex, Baubles from Bones, Strange Horizons, Angry Gable Press, and many more. She wrote for White Wolf Gaming Studio. Werespiders ruining LARPs were are her fault. 2025 Rhysling Award Chair Survivor. 2025 Kay Snow Prize Winner.
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Bio: S. L. Johnson’s speculative fiction and poetry are published/ forthcoming in Banksia Journal, The Colored Lens, Analog, Penumbric and Tales from the Crosstimbers. A graduate of the Wayward Wormhole Workshop and former editor at Novel Slices, she is originally from the US and now lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Bio: Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. She’s worked as a technical writer on contracts involving nuclear submarines, NASA, and computer manufacturing. Her prize-winning poetry has received Rhysling, Elgin, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations and has appeared in over seventy journals. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in Analog and Lightspeed. She’s published six novels and a TTRPG.
For more about her work, including her poetry collections (The Gates of Never, Bounded by Eternity, From Voyages Unreturning, Xenoforning, and To Love Unquietly), see www.deborahldavitt.com.
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Bio: Tampa Bay native Crystal Sidell grew up playing with toads in the rain and indulging in speculative fiction. A Pushcart/ Best of the Net/ Dwarf Star Nominee and Rhysling Finalist, her work appears in 34 Orchard, Apparition Lit, ETTT, On Spec, Sprawl Mag, Strange Horizons, Trollbreath, and others. Her novel Repetition is forthcoming with Dead Fox Publishing. You can find her on various social media platforms @sidellwrites
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Bio: Jayasri Sridhar is a filmmaker, designer, musician and writer from India whose practice merges critical inquiry with creative exploration. As a storyteller and systems thinker, she engages deeply with ecological, social and more-than-human themes through diverse mediums. Her work has found homes in film festivals, international conferences, and literary, academic and speculative publications including Strange Horizons, Kyoorius Designyatra, Insubordinate Vitalities/ Writing Natures Vol 02, hākārā, Bilori Journal and Heartlines Spec. A Hindustani classical singer in training, avid reader and traveller, she welcomes new learning and meaningful collaborations with people from across the world. Find her at jayasrisridhar.com.
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Bio: Maha is a science writer by day and a fantasy enthusiast by night. She began exploring her experiences in nature through creative writing and poetry in 2023. Her works of fiction appear in Intrepidus Ink and other places online.
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Bio: Daniel Ausema's poems have appeared in many places, including Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Small Wonders and been nominated for the Rhysling Award. His Elgin-nominated chapbook Ephemeral Village is published by Island of Wak-Wak Press. Daniel lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rockies and can be found online at https://danielausema.com.
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Bio: Elizabeth R. McClellan is a white disabled gender/queer neurospicy demisexual lesbian poet writing on unceded Quapaw and Chikshaka Yaki land. Kan debut collection of poetry, IS MY CHAINSAW A HEART: 13 CENTOS is available now from kith books. Kan other work can be found at popelizbet.com.
"Is est unus rex-abyssus imbroglio."www.deborahldavitt.com.
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Bio: Akua Lezli Hope, wisdom seeker, creator of poems, patterns, short stories, music & sculpture, paraplegic, has been in print since 1974. Her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer’s Digest Award), THEM GONE, & Otherwheres (Elgin Award). A Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry (SFPA), her honors include NEA & NYFA fellowships; SFPA, Rhysling, CRITTER & IGNYTE awards; and NYSCA grants. She created the Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series & edited NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, the first of its kind. Her collection, TELEPATH, will be published by Gnashing Teeth Publishing in 2026. https://crystalsidell.wixsite.com/mysite
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Bio: H.V. Patterson is a speculative poet, fiction writer, and playwright living in Oklahoma. Poetry credits include ETTT, Star*Line, Dwarf Stars, Haven Speculative, and Brave New Weird. She cofounded Horns and Rattles Press. When she isn’t writing, she loves reading about spooky science and folklore, cooking/baking, and looking at cool critters. You can find her on BlueSky: @hvpatterson, Instagram: @hvpattersonwriter, or hvpatterson.com
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Bio: Susan L. Lin is a Taiwanese American storyteller who hails from southeast Texas and holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. Her novella Goodbye to the Ocean won the 2022 Etchings Press novella prize, and her literary/visual art has appeared in nearly a hundred publications. She loves to dance. Find more at susanllin.com.
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Bio: Mary Soon Lee grew up in London, lives in Pittsburgh, and commits poetry from the very short (119 haiku published in Science) to the very long (a poetry epic, The Sign of the Dragon). She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and winner of the AnLab Readers' Award, Asimov's Readers' Award, Dwarf Stars Award, Elgin Award, Rhysling Award, and Utopia Award. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com) and BlueSky account (@marysoonlee.bsky.social)..
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Bio: Lisa Cai is from Toronto, Canada. Her works have appeared in Diabolical Plots, The Dark Magazine, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others. She was shortlisted for the 2025 Brave New Weird award. When not reading or writing, she is probably wrangling with IT at a university, watching anime, taking a long walk, or solving crimes in Among Us. Her socials are listed at https://linktr.ee/lisacai.
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Bio: Mark A. Fisher is a writer, poet, and playwright living in Tehachapi, CA. His poetry has appeared in: Reliquiae, Young Ravens Literary Review, and many other places. 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. His play “Moon Rabbit” won Audience Favorite at the Stillwater Oklahoma Short Play Festival in 2023. He has also won cooking ribbons at the Kern County Fair.
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Bio: Asher Frost is a neurodivergent, queer writer from the frozen wastes of Alaska. His short fiction has been published at the Tributary Journal and Pressfuls Digipress. His poetry has been published at the Tributary Journal. When not reading or writing, he can be found playing guitar, painting miniatures, or running tabletop games
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Bio: Raised in Vegas then exiled to Chicago, S. T. Eleu (they, them – gay, femme) has been a musician, teacher, and consummate Vulcan. Autism is their default universe, and, though sparsely populated, is a glorious place to escape to, write in, and display an impressive collection of action figures. Their most recent publications were in AntipodeanSF, View from Atlantis, Altered Reality Magazine, SFPA, Five Fleas, and Confetti.
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Bio: Jordan Hirsch writes speculative fiction and poetry while occupying the ancestral and current homelands of the Dakota people, Mni Sota Makoce. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, and other venues. Find more of her writing on jordanrhirsch.wordpress.com and her thoughts on Bluesky: @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social.
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Bio: Cliff McNish’s middle-grade fantasy novel The Doomspell is translated into 26 languages, and his ghost novel Breathe was voted in May 2013 by The Schools Network of British Librarians as one of the top adult and children’s novels of all time.
Amongst other places, his adult stories and poetry have appeared in Nightjar Press, Stand, Confingo, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Literary Hatchet, The Interpreter’s House and Dominique Literary Magazine. His story Mrs Grace appears in THE BEST HORROR OF The YEAR 17 anthology, edited by Ellen Datlow.
Facebook: cliff mcnish; Instagram: @cliffmcnish .
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Bio: Madeline Barnicle received a PhD in mathematical logic from UCLA and now lives in Maryland. You can find more of her writing at madeline-barnicle.neocities.org.
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Bio: Greg Lehman earned an MFA from Lindenwood University and a BA from California State University at Fullerton. His poetry has appeared in Moon Tide Press’ Poet of the Month series, “Like the Wind Magazine,” “Dark Winter Lit,” “Book of Matches,” “aesterion,” “Turtle Island Poetry,” “Wild Roof Journal,” and “The SportScribe.” He dwells in Los Angeles, California, and follows are very welcome at @gregwriting Substack and @bestcoastgreg.
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Bio: Gloria Ogo is an American-based Nigerian writer with several published novels and poetry collections. Her work has appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Brittle Paper, Spillwords Press, Metastellar, Gypsophila Magazine, Harpy Hybrid Review, Allegro Poetry Magazine, among others. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and serves as a reader for Reckoning Magazine.
She is the winner of the Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize (2024) and a finalist for the Jerri Dickseski Fiction Prize (2024), the ODU Poetry Prize (2025), and the Rhonda Gail Williford Poetry Prize (2025), earning honorable mentions. She is also a finalist for the Lucky Jefferson Poetry Contest (2025). Her work was longlisted for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize (2025). https://glriaogo.wixsite.com/gloria-ogo.
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Bio: Randall Andrews is an award-winning fiction writer and poet from southern Michigan. His poetry has been published in places like Abyss & Apex, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, and Scifaikuest. His poem, “Metamorfish,” was the long form winner of the 2023 SFPA poetry contest. He also won his age bracket at a Warrior Dash extreme obstacle race out of nearly nine hundred men. When not writing, he can be found wearing the soles off a pair of running shoes, listening to his favorite John Williams soundtracks, or hand-feeding his loyal flock of wild songbirds.
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Bio: Jay Sturner is a Scandinavian American poet, fiction writer, and naturalist from the Chicago suburbs. He is the author of several books of poetry and a collection of short stories. His writing has appeared in such publications as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Space & Time, Star*Line, and Spectral Realms, among others. In 2019 one of his poems was featured on a segment of NPR's All Things Considered. He mainly writes in the fantasy and horror genres, but occasionally writes in others. Sturner is also a professional birdwalk leader and a botanist.
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Bio: . Chris was born and raised in Sydney Australia. He completed university in Sydney and graduated with a degree in business studies. Chris has devoted his spare time to writing, with works published in Not One of Us, Andromeda Spaceways, Hexagon, Shoreline of Infinity, Carmina Magazine, State of Matter, Qualia Nous Vol 2 anthology, Smoke in the Stars, Cryptic Frog Quarterly, Rhysling Anthology 2022 and illustration in The Sprawl Mag 2.1, Apocalypse Confidential, Sublimation 1.3, hyphen punk, Suburban Witchcraft, Snoozine, among other dimensionally unstable places.
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Bio: Ritiksha Sharma is a person. She enjoys doodling non-human creatures, scribbling poems and staring out into nothingness. Her work has appeared in The Stygian Lepus Magazine, Illustrated Worlds Magazine, Penumbric, Rooted Literary Magazine, and several other publications. More of her work is forthcoming in new issues from Pill Bottle Press and The Icarus Writing Collective. Reach out to her on X @ritzisharmaa. .
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Bio: Anna Madden is a Rhysling Award nominated poet. Her fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Haven Spec, Small Wonders, and elsewhere. In free time, she makes birch forests out of stained glass. Visit her website to learn more at annamadden.com. .
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Bio: . Jason P. Burnham (he/him) loves to spend time with his wife and children. He dearly misses his dog.
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Bio: . Banks Miller grew up on the third planet of a G2-class star in the spiral arm of ... uh, that is, in the Houston area and graduated from Texas A&M with a Biology degree. He currently works in Fort Worth in the environmental industry. A lifetime love of science, SF, and adventure inspires his writing, both poetry and prose
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Bio: . Haley Jenkins is an experimental poet and writer living in Surrey, UK. She has three poetry collections: Nekorb (Veer Books), Colourbast Blues (Ghost City Press) and Nature Exists Laughing (Stone Corpse Press). She has been published in The Journal of Innovative British & Irish Poetry, Cutbow Quarterly, datableed zine, Tears in the Fence and many more. She has presented her work at The National Poetry Library, The University of Surrey, The University of Roehampton, Falmouth University and Mansfield College Oxford.
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Bio: Brian U. Garrison's chapbook Micropoetry for Microplanetsearned 3rd place in the Elgin Awards. His latest is The Future is Antifascist: Speculative Poems for Today & Tomorrow. He serves as President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. Find him cheering for astronauts, returning library books, and admiring the gardens in Portland, Oregon. Online at bugthewriter.com. .
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Bio: . Katie Farley is an MFA student in Creative Writing at Lindenwood University who loves how the spaces where story, wonder and the unknown can come together. She has a deep love of ancient civilizations and conspiracy theories which makes writing a wonderful outlet for exploring. When she isn’t writing, she can be found either reading multiple books of interest or roaming the forest around her home in Arizona with her border collie and corgi. Her poems have been featured at ‘Tis Art Gallery alongside artwork, blending images with words. Katie’s chapbook When I Was Seventeen can be found on Amazon.
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Bio: Chandreyee Chakraborty (she/her) is an Indian writer, dancer, and photographer. She enjoys history, parallel universes, etymologies, and myths, in all their permutations and combinations. Her nonfiction has appeared in Eternal Haunted Summer. Her photography is forthcoming in The Sunlight Press. She can be found on Substack (@cchak) and Instagram (@chandreyee_c).
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Bio: Jade Kleiner is a trans writer and mental health worker from New England. Her poetry, haiku, and fiction can be found in Free the Verse, manywor(I)ds, Cold Moon Journal, Bright Flash Literary Review and elsewhere. She is currently revising her post scarcity novella, Ship of Plenty. She has practiced in the Plum Village Tradition since 2020. .
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Bio: Tushar Sen is a finance professional who also engages in sustained creative and scholarly writing. He is the author of Pandora’s Box, a collection of short stories available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Audible. In 2020, he wrote and produced the short film Zulfi, which screened internationally and received 22 laurels across film festivals.
His essay, “Vishnu’s Umbilical Cord,” was published by LongformReads (https://longformreads.com/2026/03/28/vishnus-umbilical-cord-how-a-quantum-entangled-type-iii-civilization-answers-a-5000-year-old-question/).
His poetry has appeared in Lekh (https://lekh.co/the-poems-winning-aint-the-road-less-travelled-and-the-quill/) and Indian Review (https://indianreview.in/poetry/the-waiting-room-tushar-sen/).
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Bio: Karen Cline-Tardiff has been writing as long as she could hold a pen. She is the author of the chapbook “Raccoon.” Her works have appeared in several anthologies and journals, both online and in print. She stays up too late and snoozes her alarm past any reasonable time. She is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gnashing Teeth Publishing. Find her at karenthepoet.com .
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Bio: David Clink is the poetry editor (along with his sister, Carolyn, and Herb Kauderer) of Amazing Stories. He is the Chair of the CSFFA (Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association) Hall of Fame. He co-hosts two Aurora-nominated podcasts: Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi (with Troy Harkin); and Wizards & Spaceships (with Rachel A. Rosen). His poem “A sea monster tells his story” won the 2013 Aurora Award for Best Poem/Song. He has three speculative poetry collections: Monster, (Tightrope Books, 2010); The Role of Lightning in Evolution(Chizine Publications, 2016); and The Black Ship (Aeolus House, 2023).
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Bio: Tavair Dominque is a Baltimore based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans music, poetry, and visual art. As a singer songwriter he blends alternative folk and indie rock with storytelling. His catalog, available on streaming platforms, includes the Sagacious Traveler series which imagines conversations across timelines. Other works such as Phoenix Rising the Space Cowboy, Dandelion Soup, and the Sonder Window series explore memory, connection, and personal insight. His writing has appeared in the Maryland Bards 2025 Poetry Review with the poem Hilltop Barber Shop. His anthology Meanderings (September 2025) collects nearly two decades of poetry that interweaves narrative, introspection, and speculative themes.
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Bio: Lily Z. Black is an engineer from Poland who enjoys writing speculative fiction and poetry when the sun goes down and the world is asleep. Her work has appeared in Sci Phi Journal, Flash Point SF (co-winner of the 2024 Drabble Contest), A Coup of Owls, Foofaraw, Tales from the Crosstimbers, and Graveside Press’ Gathered Here Today.
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