Corey Farrenkopf lives on Cape Cod and works as a librarian. His work has been published in Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, The Deadlands, SmokeLong Quarterly, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. His debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, was released by JournalStone in April 2024, and his eco-horror collection, Haunted Ecologies, was published by them in February 2025. He is the Fiction Editor for The Cape Cod Poetry Review. To learn more, follow him on Bluesky @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com.

Damon Young is an award-winning philosopher and author. His thirteen books are published internationally and translated into twelve languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese.

Damon’s philosophical books include On Getting Off: Sex and Philosophy, The Art of Reading, and Philosophy in the Garden. His children’s picture books include the bestselling My Nanna is a Ninja. The Literary Review praised Damon’s “delightful combination of humour and insight,” while The Australian described his work as “readable, rousing and hugely intelligent.” The Dutch newspaper Trouw called him an “anti Freud.” In the United States, Publisher’s Weekly simply said: “Young has nailed it.”

Damon has also published short stories, poetry, and essays. He has written in several genres, including fantasy, science-fiction, and horror. His work has featured in magazines and newspapers including Meanjin, Overland, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, Aeon, the ABC and BBC.

Joshua Jones Lofflin’s writing has appeared in The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, Fractured Lit, Moon City Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. He lives in Maryland. Find him online at jjlofflin.com.

Shantell Powell is a two-spirit artist, writer, forager, and swamp hag who grew up on the land and off the grid all over Canada. She is an alum of Roots Wounds Words, the Banff Centre for the Arts, The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University, the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, the University of New Brunswick, and the LET(s) Lead Academy at Yale University. She is currently studying novel-writing with GrubStreet. Her writing appears in Augur Magazine, Solarpunk Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, Arc Poetry, MetaStellar, The Deadlands, and more. She is the winner of the 2023 Dystopian Fiction Competition and first runner-up for the 2023 Native Voices Award. When she’s not writing or making things, she wrangles chinchillas or gets filthy in the woods.

Kimberly Crow is an accountant living in Massachusetts with her two young children, husband, and roughly three billion LEGO pieces. When she’s not working or parenting (or picking up LEGOs), she writes novels and flash fiction, spends time outdoors with her family, and fantasizes about moving to London. Her flash fiction is featured in the online journals Every Day Fiction, the tiny journal, and WOW! Women On Writing.

Erin L. Swann is a lifelong lover of fantasy and space adventures. She works as an art teacher, feeding the imaginations of others while fueling her own creativity. When she’s not teaching or writing, Erin enjoys cooking and working on her own art. She lives in Central Maryland with her husband and daughter and is currently querying her debut science-fantasy novel. Her work appears in numerous publications including Factor Four Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, and Brigids Gate Press. Find her on X @swannscribbles and her website at www.swannscribbles.com.