Shane Halbach lives in Chicago with his wife and two kids, where he writes software by day and avoids writing stories by night. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction, among others. He blogs at shanehalbach.com or can be found on twitter @shanehalbach.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she’s left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella series, beginning with The Continuum, is available from World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Fatima Taqvi is a speculative fiction writer from Pakistan, now living in London. She has stories appearing in Strange Horizons and Fusion Fragment. She loves Indo-Persianate history and lore, and holds a firm belief that her home region’s monsters, magical beings and legendary creatures will eventually come out from the margins and into their own in speculative fiction.

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer. She is the author of a short fiction collection Morsels of Purple and a prose chapbook Skin Over Milk. She is currently working on her first novel. Her stories have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including the Best Small Fictions 2022 and 2023. She is the winner of the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Contest and the runner-up for the Larry Brown Short Story Prize. Outside of her day job as a technologist, she is a submissions editor for SmokeLong Quarterly. More at https://saraspunyfingers.com, Twitter/X @PunyFingers, and Instagram @sara_siddiqui24.

A M Hardy moved to the U.S. from Sweden as a free-roaming tween and has since lived on three different continents and in nine different states. She has worked in sales, horticulture, ecotourism, marketing, and the restaurant industry, and once held a job that required her to chase off bears by banging pots and pans. In the course of her travels, she has gotten lost on a glacier, stirred a bucket of blood with a birch branch at a reindeer roundup, and spent a night sleeping next to a lava lake. Always happiest outside, she frequently gets story ideas while on the trail, leading to much frantic scribbling around the campfire. Her stories are inspired by mythology and the magic of the natural world.