Jeremy Szal was born in 1995 and was raised by wild dingoes, which should explain a lot. He spent his childhood exploring beaches, bookstores, and the limits of people’s patience. He’s the author of the Common trilogy from Gollancz, a dark space opera series that includes STORMBLOOD, BLINDSPACE, and WOLFSKIN, about a drug harvested from alien DNA that makes users permanently addicted to adrenaline and aggression.

His short fiction has appeared in Nature, Abyss & Apex, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, the Drabblecast, and multiple anthologies.He was the editor for the Hugo-winning StarShipSofa until 2020 where he has worked as audio producer with George R. R. Martin, William Gibson, Harlan Ellison and others. He is represented by John Jarrold of the John Jarrold Literary Agency, and his film/TV rights are with Julie Kane-Ritsch of The Gotham Group. He holds a rather useless BA in Film Studies and Creative Writing from the University of N.S.W. e carves out a living in Sydney, Australia with his family. He loves watching weird movies, collecting boutique gins, exploring cities, cold weather, and dark humour. Find him at http://jeremyszal.com/ or @JeremySzal

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Konstantine Paradias is a writer by choice. At the moment, he's published over

100 stories in English, Japanese, Romanian,German, Dutch and Portuguese and has

worked in a freelancing capacity for videogames, screenplays and anthologies.

People tell him he's got a writing problem but he can, like, quit whenever he wants, man.

His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Told by a high school teacher that he had writing talent, Steve Carr’s career as a writer began right after graduation. He spent three years in the Army as a military journalist, writing articles for newspapers all over Florida, and followed that up with four years in the Navy where he taught in the Psychiatric Technician Program at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, training Hospital Corpsmen how to provide care and support in an inpatient setting for young men with psychiatric disorders. He then finished college, majoring in English/Theater and then spent the next 13 years working in non-profit health care development and management, mostly in rural communities, during which time several of his plays that he wrote in his spare time were produced in several states. He gave up the steady income to pursue his dream of writing/producing/directing his own plays and began a theatrical production company in Arizona. He retired early and in June 2016 began writing short stories. Since then he has had over 550 short stories published internationally in over 280 different print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Collections of his short stories, Sand, Rain, The Tales of Talker Knocks, and the hardback edition The Very Best of Steve Carr: 52 stories, was published by Clarendon House Publications. His collection of short stories, Heat, was published by Czykmate Productions. His self-published debut novel, Redbird, was released in November, 2019. He independently published LGBTQ: 33 Stories, which was released in January, 2020. In May of 2020 his short story collection The Theory of Existence: 50 short stories, was released. His guidebook Getting Your Short Stories Published was also published by Clarendon House. He has over 130 publications and books that contain his short stories listed on his Amazon bibliography. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. In 2019, he was on the cover of the Inner Circle Writers’ Magazine inaugural issue and dubbed “The King of Short Stories.” He’s a native of Cincinnati but has traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia where when he’s not writing he frets about his writing peers not getting the attention they deserve. He is the founder of Sweetycat Press, a Facebook Group, that produces publications as promotion tools for emerging writers

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M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as over a dozen novels including the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots.

Darusha is a member of the Many Worlds writing collective and their short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Strange Horizons, Terraform and Nature. Their poetry has been a finalist for the Rhysling Award.

Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand after several years sailing the Pacific.

Gerri Leen spent her childhood and early adult years in the Seattle area but moved to Northern Virginia in the late eighties and has stayed there ever since. She began writing in her forties and credits fanfic over the public school system for teaching her how to punctuate and plot. She prefers writing speculative prose and non-speculative poetry, but can go the other way when needed. She's recently begun editing and has developed a passion for it. She also writes romances under the pen name Kim Strattford.

Gerri is a big supporter of animal rescue and currently has two rescue cats, siblings named Simon and River. She follows horse racing with a fervid passion not shared by most of the world and someday will get to go to The Breeders' Cup.

Favorite authors include (in no particular order): Connie Willis, Max Barry, Matt Ruff, Douglas Coupland, Stewart O'Nan, Robert A. Heinlein, Alice Hoffman, Armistead Maupin, Gillian Flynn, and Laurie Halse Anderson.

Visit her website at www.gerrileen.com.

Sarah Lyn Eaton is a queer pagan writer and burn survivor. She lives quietly with her wife and cat in New York, where two rivers meet in the foothills of mountains.

When not focused on her recovery she spends time with nature and has a fondness for birch trees, fungus photography sessions, and rock hunting. Sarah Lyn is a mammoth Star Wars fan with a life-long love of apples.

Her other published stories can be found in the anthologies Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction, Upon a Twice Time, Of Fae & Fate, On Fire, Dystopia Utopia, Fracture: Essays Poems and Stories on Fracking in America, and What Follows. Her work has also appeared in Pantheon Magazine and parABnormal Magazine. A creative non-fiction essay of her accident appears in Against Death: 35 Essays on Living.