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

Beth Goder is an archivist and author. Over 40 of her short stories have appeared in venues such as Escape Pod, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Flash Fiction Online, and Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy. You can find her online at http://www.bethgoder.com.

Sylvia Heike is a writer from Finland. Her stories have appeared in Nature Futures, Zooscape, Cast of Wonders, and more. When not writing, she enjoys knitting, gardening, and watching birds. Her favourite bird varies from month to month. Read more at www.sylviaheike.com or follow her on Twitter @sylviaheike.

Taylor Rae is a recently-reformed mountain troll who is trying out city living. She holds her Bachelor’s degrees in psychology and English literature from the University of Idaho. Her work has appeared in Apparition Lit, Hexagon, and Press 53 and is forthcoming in Air and Nothing Press’s anthology Upon a Twice Time.

Ruth Joffre is the author of the story collection Night Beast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Lightspeed, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Masters Review, Pleiades, and The Florida Review Online and will be anthologized in Best Microfiction 2021 and Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness. She lives in Seattle, where she serves as Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House.