John Guzlowski’s work appears in Rattle, Ontario Review, North American Review, and other journals here and abroad. His poems and personal essays about his parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany appear in his award-winning memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues. He is also the author of the Hank and Marvin mystery novels and a columnist for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish newspaper in America. His most recent books of poems are Mad Monk Ikkyu and True Confessions.

Jennifer Linnaea‘s work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her partner and cats, and when not writing studies kanji and practices Aikido.

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

Emma Munro is a queer cis woman who lives in the Blue Mountains of Australia with her wife and cat. Her stories have appeared in Hashtag Queer LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology Vol. 1, Hello Horror, Pure Slush, Cosmos and other places.

Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer and poet who dabbles in the surreal. Her short prose has been published by Apex, Catapult, Pseudopod, and many more. Her longer work includes the short story collection TURDUCKEN (Spaceboy, 2023), as well as her novels BEAST (Hear Us Scream, 2023), SUNBATHERS (Hedone Books, 2024), THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET (Harlequin, 2025), and the collaborative anthology AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE (Stanchion, 2025). Her work has been taught in schools, universities, and turned into avant-garde opera. She is a full member of the SFWA, the club president of the Edinburgh Writers’ Club, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing.

Sudha Balagopal‘s fiction appears in Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, Smokelong and Split Lip Magazine among other journals. She is the author of a novel, A New Dawn. Her novella-in-flash, Things I Can’t Tell Amma, was published by Ad Hoc Fiction recently. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions, is included in Best Microfiction 2021 and listed in the Wigleaf Top 50. More at www.sudhabalagopal.com.