Kelly Sandoval lives in Seattle, where the weather is always happy to make staying in and writing seem like a good idea. She shares her home with her understanding husband, chaos tornado toddler, and increasingly irate cat. Her interactive novel, Runt of the Litter is available from Choice of Games. Find her on twitter @kellymsandoval or visit her website at kellysandovalfiction.com.

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

Audrey T. Williams has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2010 and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts in 2018. She is a Voices of our Nation (VONA) alum, a SFWA member, and Co-Founder of AncestralFutures.org, a BIPOC+ speculative literary arts & education nonprofit. Her poetry has been published in Space & Time Magazine and other venues. She is a first reader for Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine and an occasional nonfiction contributor to Lightspeed and Flash Fiction Online. Connect on twitter: @ancestrlfutures and instagram: @audthentic_stories & @ancestralfuturespress.

Victoria Zelvin is a speculative fiction and freelance writer living and working in Washington D.C. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, to include Daily Science Fiction, Brave New Girls, Luna Station Quarterly, Shoreline of Infinity, and others. She is currently a monthly columnist for Luna Station Quarterly. For more information, please visit: www.victoriazelvin.com

Ike Quigley (M.C.S.) is the senior software engineer for the DBC Radio group based in the southeastern United States, and an adjunct lecturer of computer science for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has been an amateur author for 30 years, and during that time, has written countless screenplays, short stories, and one self-published fantasy novel.

He lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife of 22 years, their teenage daughter, and occasionally a son when he’s home from college. He also owns a cat he tolerates, a dog who’s his best friend, and another dog who is hell-bent on destroying all worldly possessions.

When he’s not adding to his stack of rejection letters, reading, playing nerdy board games, watching horror movies, or browsing YouTube for clips of The Voice, he can be found at his desk working on his next novel.

Recent publications:

Ripples in Space Summer 2019 Selection: The Mysterious Case of the Purple Pod Thing

The Lion of Rivers

Elizabeth “Elle” Cleland is an American/British dual citizen currently living in the UK, writing like mad and taking her dog on long walks. A professional not-make-up-her-minder, she grew up wanting to be a doctor, sailor, physicist, singer, ambassador, and mountaineering guide, and eventually realized that through writing she can be all of them. She has worked with Penguin Random House, is a member of the Society of Young Publishers, and is a participant or founder of several online writing groups. She’s spent years editing manuscripts, cover letters, and articles as a freelancer, and she was once paid $100 to write novelty fortune cookie labels for a dog adoption party. She fills her time not working or writing with reviewing books on her website and listening to rather too many podcasts. She donates blood but wouldn’t hesitate to steal the last slice of cake from you while you aren’t looking. She shares book reviews — for both new releases and classics — as well as essays on writing and her own short fiction on her website Walker Literary, named after her tendency to start thinking about stories and wander in random directions. Follow her on Twitter at @EOAC6.