Barbara A. Barnett is a Philadelphia-area writer, musician, orchestra librarian, coffee addict, wine lover, and all-around geek. In addition to previous appearances in Flash Fiction Online, her short stories have appeared in publications such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Daily Science Fiction. A graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, she is currently managing editor of the workshop’s blog and a critiquer for the Odyssey Critique Service. You can find her online at www.babarnett.com.

M.K. Hutchins regularly draws on her background in archaeology when writing fantasy and science fiction. She’s the author of the YA fantasy novels The Redwood Palace and Drift, along with over thirty short stories appearing in Podcastle, Analog, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Find her at https://www.mkhutchins.com.

Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, F&SF, Asimov’s, and Vastarien. You can find Avra on X/Twitter (@avramargariti).

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.

Nathan Makarios is a translator and subtitler living in Scotland. His writing is mainly fuelled by weird folklore, heavy metal music and nostalgia for places he’s never seen. He can sometimes be found ghouling around on Twitter at @paralogion.

“Dr Daidalo’s Kouklotheatron” is his first fiction publication.

Lowry Poletti is a Black author and veterinary student. When they aren’t writing about monsters and the people who love them, they can be found wrist deep in a formalin-fixed lab specimen. Their other pieces appear in Anathema Magazine and LampLight Magazine.