Bio: jms xuange lives in western Mongolia and writes from the borders of the body, dream, and the uncanny. Her work has appeared in ANMLY, Tiny Spoon, Corporeal Lit, and The Gravity of the Thing.
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Bio: J.S. Douglas is a horror author and poet living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, daughter, dog, and a growing collection of plants. Her work often addresses the topics she knows best: existential dread, monsters, trauma, and the horrors of existence.
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Bio: Sean Patrick Mulroy is an internationally recognized poet, multi-disciplinary artist, and award-winning professor of writing. Mulroy has given lectures and readings on 4 continents, in over 30 countries. A 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, 2018 Writer-in-Residence at The Kerouac Project, winner of the 2019
Margaret Reid Prize, and the 2020 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest, Mulroy's debut collection, Hated for the Gods, was published in 2023. Born and raised in the American South, he presently lives in NYC.
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Bio: William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. He has published several critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals. His most recent collection is No Vacancy (2025).
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Bio: Kathleen Bryson is an Alaskan-born evolutionary anthropologist who researches XR for the EU, with previous postdoctoral posts at Oxford and Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of four novels, more than 25 short stories in venues ranging from Aesthetica to Bending Genres, and more than 50 poems in publications including Magma, Star*Line, Always Crashing and Ranger.
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Bio: Dr. Christian Dickinson is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. His research interests include the Victorian novel and Victorian poetry as well as Science Fiction and Fantasy writing. In addition to teaching full time and publishing on authors such as Charles Dickens, he likes to write poetry. To date, Dr. Dickinson has published two books of religious poetry (Sonnets from the Psalms, available in Amazon), as well as 21 poems on mythological themes. His work has appeared in Spectral Realms, ParABnormal, Illumine Magazine, and The Mythic Circle. He is thrilled to appear for the first time in this issue of SpecPoVerse.
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Bio: Spencer Keene (he/him) is a writer from Vancouver, BC. His poetry and fiction have been featured in Radon Journal, Star*Line, Soft Star Magazine and elsewhere. Find more of Spencer's work at skeenewriter.com.
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Bio: Carsten Cheung lives in Los Angeles, CA with his family. His work can be found in Strange Horizons, Not One of Us, BarBar and others. He loves all things speculative, sci-fi, and fantasy.
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Bio: Anastasia Jill is a queer writer living in Central Florida. They have been nominated for Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and several other honors. Their work has been featured or is upcoming with Poets.org, Sundog Lit, Flash Fiction Online, Contemporary Verse 2, Channel Magazine, and more.
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Bio: Nnadi Samuel (he/him/his) holds a B.A in English & literature from the University of Benin. His works have been previously published/forthcoming in FIYAH, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, The Deadlands, Heartline Spec, Timber Ghost Press, Haven Spec Magazine, F(r)iction Magazine, Utopian Science Fiction, Liquid Imagination & elsewhere. His poem "Wormhole" was an Editor's Choice @Star*Line(Science Fiction Poetry, SFPA}. He was recently nominated for the 2024 & 2025 SFPA Rhysling Award. A 3x Best of the Net, and 8x Pushcart Nominee. His third micro-chapbook "Biblical Invasion, BC" is published @Bywords Publication (Ottawa CA) in 2024. He tweets @Samuelsamba10.
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Bio: Lindsey Duncan is a chef / pastry chef (CPC CSW), professional Celtic harp performer and life-long writer, with work in numerous speculative fiction publications. She feels that music and language are inextricably linked. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and can be found on the web at http://www.LindseyDuncan.com
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Bio: Ree Villaruel is a Filipino writer and lawyer. Her poetry has appeared in Whirlwind Magazine and Eunoia Review and is forthcoming in Amethyst Review.
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Bio: A J Dalton (www.ajdalton.eu) is a UK-based writer. He’s published the Empire of the Saviours trilogy with Gollancz Orion, The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy with Luna Press, the Dark Woods Rising and Green Man Ascendant poetry collections with Starship Sloane, and other bits and bobs. He lives with his monstrously oppressive cat named Cleopatra.
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Bio: Claire Dantan is an artist and writer working across poetry, speculative fiction and visual arts. Her fiction moves between dystopia, slipstream, and horror, while her work as a whole explores perception, inherited forms, embodiment, and systems for measuring the living. She develops poems shaped by philosophy and mythology. Her visual practice - primarily digital painting, scanography, and collage - extends these concerns through investigations of memory, event, and trauma, often approached through a technological lens."
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Bio: L.A. Hyland lives in Sussex, England, between wild hills and windy shores. Her poems have appeared in periodicals such as Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, and Utopia Science Fiction. More of her writing is available here: unboundsea.com
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Bio: Julia Sinclair is a Virginia-raised, Pennsylvania-residing scientist and writer. When not laboring to complete her Biomedical Sciences (Virology) PhD under the red lighting of the microscope room, she explores nature at every opportunity. Her work appears in Heartlines Spec and is forthcoming in Eye To The Telescope, Dreams & Nightmares, Scifaikuest, and elsewhere. Keep up with Julia and her writing on Instagram @microscopehope.
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Bio: RJ Aurand is a southern Appalachian writer and Rhysling-nominated poet whose work has appeared in Apex Magazine, The Deadlands, Orion's Belt, Small Wonders, Uncharted Mag, and others. Connect on Bluesky @rjaurand.bsky.social or at rjaurand.com.
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Bio: William Shaw is a writer from Sheffield, currently living in the USA. His writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and The Georgia Review. You can find his website at https://williamshawwriter.wordpress.com and his Bluesky at @williamshaw.bsky.social.
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Bio: Chiroprotim Saha has been an avid writer and poet from an early age. Writing has been an elixir throughout his life. It began as a way to channel his highly sensitive nature and gradually grew into a passion. Eventually, it morphed into a muse, driven by an existential yearning for something greater. His works span from soft explorations of love to uncanny speculative fiction, from bitter horror to sweet magical realism, from phenomenon to noumenon. His utmost admiration for and sensitive observations of life, nature, science and philosophy have always found their way into his poems, haiku, stories and novels.
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Bio: Nate Ritchie is a horror fiction writer and poet who hails from rural Ohio.
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Bio: Shannon Blake Skelton (he/him/his) is a teacher, author, and researcher located in the Midwest. His scholarship and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and periodicals. Recent publications include: "The Starving Artist Type" in The Anthology of Splatterpunk: Vol 2 (Hellbound Books, 2025) and “Behold! The Once Murky Depths of the Prairie” in Atlas of the Deep Ones(Transformations, 2026). He is a proud member of the Ad Astra Institute for Science Fiction and Speculative Imagination https://adastra-sf.com/ .
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Bio: Nivara Lune is the pen name of a writer and storyteller writing ebooks, blogs, and serialized tales across genres including horror, romance, and supernatural fiction. Her work blends creativity, insight, and engaging storytelling, drawing readers into worlds where suspense, emotion, and hidden truths collide. She explores themes of love, identity, and self-discovery, often with a queer or supernatural twist. Nivara Lune contributes to platforms Zoetic Press, Philly Chapbook Review, Brown Hound Press, A Coup of Owls and elsewhere.
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Bio: Lachlan R. lives in Melbourne, Australia. He met his best friend when they were both hired to paint the same cathedral. https://bsky.app/profile/lachlan-r.bsky.social.”
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Bio: Emma Atkins is a poet, short story writer and novelist. Her poetry is featured in The Stony Thursday Poetry Book, Amsterdam Quarterly, Hive Poetry Journal and others. Her flash fiction is featured in Blood+Honey, The Argyle, Chaotic Merge Magazine and others. You can find her at: emmapaigeatkins.co.uk
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Bio: David Anson Lee is a poet whose work explores memory, inheritance, landscape, science, mortality, and the strange intersections between the human and more-than-human worlds. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in literary journals and magazines including Still Point Arts Quarterly, New Contrast, Big Score, and SpecPoVerse. His first poetry chapbook, The Body Keeps Its Inventory in Shadow, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. He is also the author of David A. Lee, a Substack devoted to poetry and reflections on the creative life.
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Bio: Shannon Blake Skelton (he/him/his) is a teacher, author, and researcher located in the Midwest. His scholarship and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and periodicals. Recent publications include: "The Starving Artist Type" in The Anthology of Splatterpunk: Vol 2 (Hellbound Books, 2025) and “Behold! The Once Murky Depths of the Prairie” in Atlas of the Deep Ones(Transformations, 2026). He is a proud member of the Ad Astra Institute for Science Fiction and Speculative Imagination https://adastra-sf.com/ .
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Bio: Nivara Lune is the pen name of a writer and storyteller writing ebooks, blogs, and serialized tales across genres including horror, romance, and supernatural fiction. Her work blends creativity, insight, and engaging storytelling, drawing readers into worlds where suspense, emotion, and hidden truths collide. She explores themes of love, identity, and self-discovery, often with a queer or supernatural twist. Nivara Lune contributes to platforms Zoetic Press, Philly Chapbook Review, Brown Hound Press, A Coup of Owls and elsewhere.
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Bio: Lachlan R. lives in Melbourne, Australia. He met his best friend when they were both hired to paint the same cathedral. https://bsky.app/profile/lachlan-r.bsky.social.”
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Bio: Emma Atkins is a poet, short story writer and novelist. Her poetry is featured in The Stony Thursday Poetry Book, Amsterdam Quarterly, Hive Poetry Journal and others. Her flash fiction is featured in Blood+Honey, The Argyle, Chaotic Merge Magazine and others. You can find her at: emmapaigeatkins.co.uk
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