J.J. Prado<\/p>
J.J. Prado is a queer and Xicanx writer, editor, and artist from Southern California. Their work centers issues and celebrations of love, friendship, sexuality, and gender, and has appeared in Indicia<\/i>, RipRap<\/i>, Flexx<\/i>, and Nerve Cowboy<\/i>.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
B.F. Vega<\/p>
B.F. Vega is a writer, poet, and theater artist living in the North Bay Area of California. She is an associate member of the HWA and her short stories and poetry have appeared in various horror magazines and anthologies. She is still shocked when people refer to her as an author—every time.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>
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Aaraf Afzal<\/p>
Aaraf Afzal was invented in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at some point in the early \u201890s. His work spans a multitude of mediums, from superhero fiction to short films to video essays and beyond. He is the author of dystopian novel Re: Revolution<\/i>, and completed his second sci-fi\/ fantasy manuscript The Great Will of the Universe<\/i> as his CalArts MFA Thesis. He lives with his partner.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Cath Lauria<\/p>
Cath Lauria is a Colorado girl who loves snow and sunshine. She prefers books to television shows, has a vast collection of beautiful edged weapons, and could totally survive in the wild without electricity or running water but would really prefer not to. She loves writing speculative fiction of all genres, and has a long list of publications under her belt as romance author Cari Z as well as novels and short stories for Marvel Entertainment as Cath Lauria.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>
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Emily Woodworth<\/p>
Emily Woodworth grew up in Sisters, Oregon, where she developed a love for nature and the psychological pathologies that permeate small towns. As a descendant of the Karuk Tribe, she enjoys studying and deconstructing the tropes of the Western genre. She graduated in 2020 with an MFA from CalArts, where she attended on a Lillian Disney Scholarship.\r\nRecent work has appeared in Joyland<\/i>, No Contact<\/i>, CAROUSEL<\/i>, and more. She\u2019s been nominated for some Pushcart Prizes, made the long-list for Wigleaf<\/i>\u2019s Top 50, and was a finalist for cream city review<\/i>\u2019s Summer Prize in Fiction, among other honors. Emily has held fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. She\u2019s currently a fiction editor for Ruminate Magazine<\/i>.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Mary Gulino<\/p>
Mary Gulino is a TV writer who has worked on shows for Disney, Amazon, Showtime, and the CBC. She has also been published in various humor and literary magazines, including Reductress<\/i> and The American Bystander<\/i>.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Woof Achoo<\/p>
The pen name of this author is Woof Achoo. He writes dark fiction, poetry, and marketing copy. Read his other work at woofachoo.com.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>
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Ian Kappos<\/p>
Ian Kappos is a co-founder of Surface Dweller Studios. His writing has appeared in Strange Horizons<\/i>, Witch Craft Mag<\/i>, Entropy<\/i>, Maximumrocknroll<\/i>, and others. He earned an MFA from CalArts. In 2018, Eibonvale Press published his first chapbook collection of fiction, Crossfaded in Narnia<\/i>. Ian was born and raised in Northern California and played in Cross Class there. Now he lives in LA and plays in Fluppies.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Christopher Zerby<\/p>
Christopher Zerby is a Los Angeles-based science fiction writer and a leading expert on imaginary robots. His stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction<\/i>, Uncharted<\/I>, Zooscape<\/i>, Murder Park After Dark<\/i>, The Ontario Review<\/i>, and others. He\u2019s written several novels. In a previous life he mixed records and drove around the U.S. and Canada in a van playing music. He regrets nothing.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Megan Baffoe<\/p>
Megan Baffoe is a freelance writer of both fiction and nonfiction, with particular interests in health, fantasy, and feminism. She is currently pursuing English Language and Literature at Oxford University.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>
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M. Shaw<\/p>
M. Shaw probably wrote whatever you’re reading in an empty art museum after midnight. They are a 2019 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and a past organizer of the Denver Mercury Poetry Slam. Their absurdist body horror novella One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve<\/i> is forthcoming from Tenebrous Press in 2022. They live in Arvada, Colorado.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Alyssa Greenberg<\/p>
Alyssa is a fiction author living in Brooklyn with her fianc\u00e9 and cat. When not at work, she can be found cycling, gardening, or collecting art, books and records.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>
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O.F. Cieri<\/p>
O.F. Cieri is a self-taught writer and a mess based out of NYC. She likes free intellectual property, sex, violence, explosions and extremely thin scientific justification. She has been published in Ligeia Magazine<\/i> and Hobart Pulp<\/i>, with an upcoming book available from Castaigne Publishing. In 2013, she won first place in BMCC’s Poetry Competition. In 2016, she won an Honourable Mention in LaborArts Make Work Visible Competition.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Ross Showalter<\/p>
Ross Showalter\u2019s stories, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times<\/i>, Electric Literature<\/i>, Strange Horizons<\/i>, Catapult<\/i>, Black Warrior Review<\/i>, and elsewhere. He resides in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
B.R. Yeager<\/p>
B.R. Yeager is a lifelong resident of Western Massachusetts, and the author of Negative Space<\/i>, Amygdalatropolis<\/i>, and Pearl Death<\/i>. In 2021, he co-wrote the feature film Cockazoid<\/i> with director Nick Verdi, which debuted at the Salem Horror Fest later that year.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Erin Brown<\/p>
Erin Brown is a black queer woman writer of horror and fantasy fiction, as well as an award-winning costume designer. She has been published in 3Element Review<\/i> and Midnight & Indigo<\/i>, and is the recipient of the Truman Capote Literary Trust Creative Writing Scholarship. Erin works to create and support representation of marginalized cultures in fantasy and science fiction, in general and on her website, www.ebrownwrites.com. She can often be found gazing out over the waters of the Salton Sea in the California Badlands, eating date shakes, and listening to lo-fi.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Andrew Sanger<\/p>
Andrew Sanger is a writer from Washington, DC. His work has been published in Daily Science Fiction<\/i>, and he has a forthcoming piece in Intrinsick<\/i>. When he’s not working, he spends his time reading, making music, and playing with his dog, Poppy.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Jolie Toomajan<\/p>
Jolie Toomajan is a PhD candidate, writer, editor, and all-around creep. Her dissertation in progress is focused on the women who wrote for Weird Tales<\/i> and her work has appeared in Grim<\/i>, LampLight<\/i>, Upon a Thrice Time<\/i>, and will appear in Death in the Mouth<\/i> and Black Static<\/i>. Despite all of this, her plan for the zombie apocalypse is to pour a bottle of hot sauce over her head.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Lauren Lav\u00edn<\/p>
Lauren Lav\u00edn is a writer, illustrator and musician with work in HAD<\/i>, Mason Jar Press<\/i>, Sundog<\/i>, The Hard Times<\/i>, Reductress<\/i>, and elsewhere. She was named one of the 15 best humorists writing today by Paste Magazine<\/i> and has an MFA from CSU Long Beach, where she was editor-in-chief of RipRap Literary Journal<\/i>. She was made in Mexico, born in Oakland, and currently lives in Seattle.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Barton Aikman<\/p>
Barton Aikman is a graduate of the 2019 Clarion Writers\u2019 Workshop and a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. His work has appeared in numerous venues including Apex Magazine<\/i>, Augur<\/i>, and Southwest Review<\/i>. He earned his MFA at California Institute of the Arts and continues to live and write in Los Angeles.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>\n\n<\/div>
Rick Paulas<\/p>
Rick Paulas is a writer currently based in Brooklyn who has written two novels, Eastern Span<\/i> and The Palmer Hotel<\/i>, and you can likely still buy the second one from him.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li>