E.M. Linden is from Aotearoa New Zealand and likes coffee, books, owls, and the sea. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, PodCastle, on the Locus Recommended Reading List, and many other places. She is online at emlinden.blog.

Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Nature:Futures, Mythaxis, Northern Gravy, Radon, Flash Fiction Online, Apex, Utopia, MetaStellar, Uncharted, Roi Fainéant, JAKE, and more. She’s pretty excited that her first book, Ex Partum, will be coming out in June 2026 with Atthis Arts. You can find Emma @slashnburnett.bsky.social or emmaburnett.uk.

Elitsa Dermendzhiyska is a former science writer in psychology and co-creator of an interactive fiction game that blends fantasy and mental health.

Mizuki Yamagen is a writer from Japan, currently living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with her half moon and two very spoiled farm dogs. Mizuki is the Grand Prize winner of The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2025. Her writing appears in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Citron Review, HAD, Flash Flood, Five on the Fifth, and is forthcoming in Flash Frog, Does It Have Pockets, Your Impossible Voice, and other places.

Ashlee Lhamon lives outside of Washington D.C. with her husband, daughter, and alarmingly extensive lego collection. Her work has previously appeared in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Radon Journal, Salamander, and is forthcoming in Apex and Tractor Beam. For more of her work, visit ⁦ashleelhamon.com⁩.

Chris Baker is a writer and editor living in Oakland, California, USA. This is his first piece of speculative fiction to be accepted for publication. His journalism has appeared in Wired, Rolling Stone, and Slate. His writing about video games has appeared in Vulture, Kill Screen, Gamasutra, Giant Robot, and the 1-Up zine. He explores the origin stories of the latest trends in the zeitgeist in his newsletter Pop Cultural Precursors.

Camsyn Clair is a Black, queer therapist, artist, and horse lover from Maryland. As much as Cam enjoys writing stories, their favorite part of the creative process is collaborating with others through beta reading and sharing work. Cam loves the community as much as the art itself and is so grateful for the opportunity to have such skilled and supportive storytellers to look up to. When not writing, Cam can be found spending time with their Mustang horse, Zen, illustrating, or causing chaos in tabletop role playing games. They occasionally visit Bluesky under the handle @beingcam.bsky.social.

V. H. Chen thought she’d peaked in college when she graduated in five semesters with an English degree and subsequently failed to find a job. She is an alumni of Viable Paradise and was previously published in Nightmare. At the moment she lives in New England with eleven pairs of legs, not counting the arthropoda ones, and can probably be found goofing off online somewhere.

Kate Horsley’s first novel was shortlisted for the Saltire Award. Her second was published by William Morrow. Both have been optioned for film. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines like The Cincinnati Review, The Citron Review, Fictive Dream, BULL, Paragraph Planet, Storyglossia, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, Fish Barrel Review, Cake, and Strix, and placed in competitions including Bath, Bournemouth, Bridport, Oxford, and Smokelong. She’s a creative writing lecturer. You can find her online on Instagram (@inkfishmagazine) and Bluesky (@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social), and her website is https://www.katehorsley.co.uk/.