Sunny Moraine is—among many other things—the author of the novella Your Shadow Half Remains, published by Tor Nightfire. Their debut short fiction collection Singing With All My Skin and Bone was released in 2016 and their short stories have been published in Tor.com, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Nightmare. An occasional podcaster/narrator/voice actor, they are the writer, producer, and lead actor of the serial horror drama podcast Gone, which wrapped up its first season in January 2018 and released a second season in 2022. For more info, please see their website at sunnymoraine.com.

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A.A. Balaskovits was born in the Chicagoland area but now resides in Ohio with three rambunctious cats named Pilgore, Droogie and Marat. She is the author of Magic for Unlucky Girls and the forthcoming Strange Folk You'll Never Meet (Santa Fe Writers Project). Her fiction and essays appear in Story, Indiana Review, The Madison Review, The Southeast Review, Gargoyle, Apex Magazine, Shimmer and numerous other magazines and anthologies. She was awarded the New Writers Award from Sequestrum, featured in Wigleaf Top 50, Best Small Fictions and won the grand prize for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards series. She is the Editor in Chief for Cartridge Lit.

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My writing philosophy is that stories have power. The power to move us, the power to make us think, the power to change people’s perspective. They hold up a mirror to our lives, and sometimes the reflection is identical, and sometimes startlingly different.

I love stories about women. Strong women, courageous women, shy women, frightened women, women with their own agency, their own destinies. A woman is not an accessory to someone else’s story. A woman is the centre of her own world. My stories delve into the challenges of life, into courage without violence, into strength without muscle.

I believe that everyone is creative. That we all carry that spark that elevates our work from what is necessary, to art. But it’s not always clear where your creativity lies, and I think so many people give up before they find what speaks to them.

I daydream. All the time. About people, about places and events, about grand ideas and what it means to be human. I try to make these ideas come alive on the page. Sometimes I am even successful.