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 its forms (except maybe nutribulbs). You can find emma @slashnburnett.bsky.social and emmaburnett.uk.

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 the Critic” Best of the Year, but his geek heaven period may have been writing skits and voicing them with the original Jim Henson gang. Hornytown Chutzpah is Andrew’s first collaboration/novella with Atthis Arts.

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Ulla Thynell is an artist and designer from Finland, specializing in fantasy, fairy tales and folklore.

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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 she did not survive to do this, we have this beautiful story so that her joy – as well as her advocacy – live on, with each of us who see and honor it.

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 the Clan), vineyards (Water into Wine) and swordmaking forges (Fire Heart) respectively. Joyce also wrangles article editing at Strange Horizons. Alter-ego J. Damask writes about werewolves in Singapore. Star Pattern Traveller, a novella about first contact, was published in February 2024.

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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 Bells (2018), Irpin Parnassus (2018), Zhytomyr TEM (2019), and An T-R-Act (2020). His work has been featured in Literary Chernihiv, Dzvin, and various anthologies.

In March 2022, a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, he joined the Territorial Defense Forces, fighting in the liberation of Kherson and later in the intense battles near Bakhmut.

His debut novel, The Factory, was published in Ukrainian soon after, a sign of hope during the early weeks of the full-scale invasion that Ukraine would stand. Ihor’s life was cut short at the front line when he was killed by Russia in the spring of 2023.

Hanna Leliv is a freelance literary translator working between Ukrainian and English. She was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Iowa’s Literary Translation MFA program and mentee at the Emerging Translators Mentorship Program run by the UK National Center for Writing. Hanna has been collaborating with a range of Ukrainian and international publishers, and in 2023-24, she was a translator-in-residence at Princeton University.

Yevheniia Dubrova is a writer and literary translator from the Donetsk region of Ukraine. She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. Winner of the 2024 Lando Grant for refugee writing from the de Groot Foundation, she writes about displacement, loss, memory, and what endures, and translates fiction, poetry, and plays from Ukrainian.

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 the Nommo Award for African Speculative Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship. She is part of the Sauúti Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and a member of Petlo Literary Arts, an organization that develops and promotes creative writing in Botswana.

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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 and eir debut short story collection The Trans Space Octopus Congregation were both released in 2019, and eir second collection Power to Yield and Other Stories is coming in late 2023.

You can find Bogi talking about books at bogireadstheworld.com, and on various social media like Twitter, Patreon and Instagram as bogiperson.

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.