Catherine George lives on Vancouver Island with her partner and three children. In 2018 she returned to writing after ten years away and now writes short speculative fiction of all types. Her work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld, Augur Magazine, and Flash Fiction Online, among others.

Carina Bissett is a writer and poet working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. She has written numerous short stories, many of which are featured in her debut collection Dead Girl, Driving and Other Devastations (2024), and she is also a co-editor of the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas (2021). Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Pushcart Prize, and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. Her nonfiction has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award®. Links to her work can be found at http://carinabissett.com.

Allison Pang is the author of the Urban Fantasy Abby Sinclair series, the steampunk IronHeart Chronicles series and also the writer for the ongoing webcomic Fox & Willow.  She particularly enjoys twisting fairy tales for her own dark purposes. She likes LEGOS, elves, LEGO elves…and bacon.

Jason P. Burnham (he/him) hopes for a free Palestine and freedom for all oppressed peoples. It’s been said many ways, but until all of us are free, none are.

Daniel Roop is a member of the Horror Writers Association and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his work in Will Work for Peace from Zeropanik Press. His speculative fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Flash Fiction Online, Dark Spores, Black Cat Tales, The Maul Magazine, and Appalachian Places. He is a seventh generation East Tennessean, and his favorite superhero is Kitty Pryde.

M. R. Robinson is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia, where she studies time and desire in Renaissance literature. When not writing or teaching, she and her wife are very (very) slowly restoring their crumbly old house, which they share with too many pets and too many books. Her fiction has previously appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies and is forthcoming in Fusion Fragment and Haven Spec. You can find her at www.m-r-robinson.com, or on Twitter / X or Bluesky as @mruthrobinson.

Surrounded by gnomes, gargoyles and poisonous plants, KT Wagner writes speculative fiction and poetry in the garden of her Maple Ridge, British Columbia home. She enjoys day-dreaming and is a collector of strange plants, weird trivia and obscure tomes. In her spare time, she organizes writer events and works to create literary community. KT graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writers Studio in 2015 (Southbank 2013). Her work is published and podcast with Pulp Literature, On Spec, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Haven Spec, and more. She’s currently working on a Gothic horror novella. KT can be found online at www.ktwagner.com and https://bsky.app/profile/ktwagner.bsky.social.

Nadia Born writes peculiar fiction, both literary and speculative. She won LitMag’s Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction and New Letters’ Editor’s Choice Award. Her stories are featured in The Cincinnati Review, Water~Stone Review, New Orleans Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Find her online at www.nadiaborn.com.