emma burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Nature:Futures, Mythaxis, Northern Gravy, Radon, Uncharted, Flash Fiction Online, Apex, MetaStellar, The Forge, and more. She also has a serialised novella in Grimdark Magazine, co-written with Miles Cameron. emma has a PhD in agricultural economics, and a deep love of food in all […]
Driven by curiosity, Andrew Hiller‘s stories always begin with a “Huh?” or a “Ha!” A long time reporter and producer for public radio, his novel A Halo of Mushrooms was selected as Best of the Year in 2019, his short story “Half-Lives” won Escape Pod’s Flash Fiction Contest in 2022 and in 2024, Amazing Stories named his story “Time of […]
Ulla Thynell is an artist and designer from Finland, specializing in fantasy, fairy tales and folklore. ullathynell.com
Jubilee Cho (1998-2024) is a fairy tale writer from Anaheim, California, who will always be a princess at heart. Jubilee planned to embark on a career in writing joyful tales for children, and use her experience as a trans, disabled, Asian-American woman to advocate on topics of equality including trans rights and disability awareness. While […]
Joyce Chng lives in Singapore. Their speculative fiction has appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future. Joyce also co-edited THE SEA IS OURS: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia with Jaymee Goh. Their novels span across wolf clans (Starfang: Rise of […]
Ihor Mysiak, born June 16, 1993 in Lviv, was a contemporary Ukrainian poet and prose writer. He studied history at Drohobych Pedagogical University and actively participated in the Revolution of Dignity. From late 2014 to mid-2015, he served as a military paramedic in the Azov Brigade. Mysiak won several literary awards in Ukraine, including Khortytsia […]
Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer of short fiction and novels of speculative fiction, young adult fiction and romance. Her work has appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine; Apex Magazine; World Literature Today; Best of World SF Vol. 3 and Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022, among others. Her work has also been shortlisted for […]
Valya Dudycz Lupescu is a writer, poet, and editor living in Chicago. She is the author of the The Silence of Trees, a magical realism novel drawing upon Ukrainian folklore and history, as well as co-author of the nonfiction books Geek Parenting and Forking Good. The first volume of her new graphic novel trilogy, Mother Christmas, […]
Bogi Takács (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) is a Hungarian Jewish author, editor, critic and scholar who’s an immigrant to the US. Bogi has won the Lambda and Hugo awards, and has been a finalist for other awards. E edited three volumes of Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Eir debut poetry collection Algorithmic Shapeshifting […]
Clara Ward lives in Silicon Valley on the border between reality and speculative fiction. When not using words to teach or tell stories, Clara uses wood, fiber, and glass to make practical or completely impractical objects. Their short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Decoded Pride, The Arcanist, and as a postcard from Thinking Ink Press.
