Jason Lairamore is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror who lives in Oklahoma with his beautiful wife and their three monstrously marvelous children. He is a 2023 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award finalist. He has also won Writer of the Future honors with fourteen honorable mentions, one silver honorable mention, and a semi-finalist placement. His work is both featured and forthcoming in over 100 publications to include Neo-Opsis, New Myths, Stupefying Stories, and Third Flatiron publications, to name a few.

Greetings! I'm Jim Lee a native and lifelong resident of Windber, Pennsylvania--a small town better know for producing an Olympic swim champion/early movie Tarzan (Johnny Weismuller), the DJ who popularized the term "rock n roll" (Alan "Moondoggie" Freed) and millions of tons of coal dust.

I've been a published writer (and more recently a freelance editor) since the 1980s. My first sale was to an anthology of erotic SF/F poetry and art, ALIENS & LOVERS (Unique Graphics, Oakland, CA, 1983). Since then I've published a wide range of short fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print and online magazines, anthologies and pretty much any other venue that would take my work in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa and the UK.

My short novel of erotic suspense, COYOTE SUMMER, was recently published in ebook form by Crimson Frost Books of Canada. While I have contributed individual stories and/or poem to various anthologies, COYOTE SUMMER is my first stand alone book. It, like many of my anthology contributions is available here--check Amazon's Kindle store!!! Price: $3.99.

In 2012 I co-founded a small nonprofit that assists the needy in and around my hometown with a particular emphasis on helping creative artists and promoting culture events. This small but energetic organization (Sanctuary of Steele, Inc.) can be found on Facebook.

I dabble in acting as well. ZOMBIE DREAM, a low-budget film from Blair Murphy's EMPYRE FILMS and in which I have a small speaking part in has been released on DVD.

I also have my own Facebook page, as well as a page at Linked-In.

J.G. Follansbee has loved writing, particularly science fiction, since the 1960s, when he used to watch the original Star Trek series with his parents. His favorite sci-fi authors include Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, William Gibson, and many more. He's also a huge fan of Rod Serling. When he's not working on maritime history books, he writes his own brand of sci-fi that examines how we will live in a world with a warming climate. His cat, named Captain Matthew Peasley (a real historical figure), runs the house in Seattle that he shares with his wife. He blogs at https://jgfollansbee.com/blog/.

Matt McHugh was born in suburban Pennsylvania, attended LaSalle University in Philadelphia, and after a few years as a Manhattanite, currently calls New Jersey home.

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DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction writer with hundreds of stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC's stories have appeared in: Progenitor, 34th Parallel, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Lunch Ticket, and others. DC’s recently released collection Captured Up Close (20th Century Short-Short Stories) has two Pushcart Prize nominated stories and one nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Her first collection of stories was Stepping Up. She lives on the California coast with her wife and animals. dcdiamondopolous.com

Sarena Ulibarri is a speculative fiction author and editor currently living in the American Southwest. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, DreamForge, GigaNotoSaurus, Solarpunk Magazine, and elsewhere, and nonfiction essays have appeared in Strange Horizons and Grist. Her novella, Another Life, was released from Stelliform Press in 2023. As an anthologist, she has curated and published several international volumes of optimistic climate fiction, and has also served as one of the story reviewers behind the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. Find her on Mastodon or Bluesky.

J.N. Cameron is a short story author and graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at UNLV. Over the past decade, he has had over a dozen publications in magazines and ezines from Miranda Literary Magazine to Weirdbook Magazine.

Adrik Kemp’s short stories have been published all over the world, in places such as Aurealis Magazine, OUTStanding & Transmundane Press. He has two erotic vampire novellas with Pride Publishing, but don’t hold that against him.

Adrik is a bent Australian writer with a vested interest in LGBTIQ+ culture. He is proud to be an active part of the community. He also writes genre short stories, usually with an LGBTIQ+ perspective. He identifies as gay but doesn’t mind being called queer, and happily lives in Sydney with his husband, Carl De Villa.

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R. Gene Turchin writes short stories across genres and occasional poems. He is currently working on two science fiction novels and comic book scripts. Recent published works can be found in Oyster River Pages,The Sirens Call, and Sunshine Superhighway Anthology and Cosmic Horror Monthly.

Website: https://rgeneturchin.com

Ethan Hedman is a speculative fiction writer from South Florida, the land of manatees, medianoches, and miscreants. He conjures up new stories from his home in Cutler Bay.

More than anything else, Ethan adores getting lost in creative entertainment. The joy of being absorbed in awesome books, stories, movies, games, and shows inspired him to start creating fictional works of his own. Ethan started writing short speculative fiction in late 2016 and has been tapping away at his keyboard ever since.

Writing aside, Ethan's pan/bi/queer, an inclusive Norse Pagan / Heathen, loves gaming, cooking, and cats, and spends far too much time procrastinating. He also spent a few years wreaking havoc on mechanized combatants across Florida with ELK Robotics, a local robot combat team he co-founded in 2015.

Born in Hong Kong to a pair of Liverpudlians (and something of a nomad ever since), Stephanie now lives on a cliff in the far west of Cornwall. Before returning to her first love of writing fiction, Stephanie spent many years pursuing alternative forms of storytelling, from stage to screen and media to marketing. Meanwhile, an enduring love affair with words has led her down many a wormhole on the written page.

Drawn to what connects rather than separates, Stephanie is fascinated by the spaces between absolutes and opposites, between science and spirituality, nature and culture. This lifelong curiosity – and occasional conflict – has been channelled into her debut novel, Bone Lines, and into short stories, poems and various works in progress. This includes upcoming books in the Children of Sarah series, of which Bone Lines is the first, and the stories Human Error in Taking Liberties and The Right Kind of Medicine in Sunshine Superhighway.

More information available at http://stephaniebretherton.com/