Franny Choi is the author of two poetry collections, Soft Science (Alice James Books) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing), as well as a chapbook, Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). A Kundiman Fellow and graduate of the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers Program, she co-hosts the podcast VS alongside fellow Dark Noise Collective member Danez Smith. She teaches at Williams College as a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow and lives in Northampton, MA. Photo by Jasmine Durhal.

Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. Her two latest books are from opposite ends of the poetry spectrum: Elemental Haiku, containing haiku for each element of the periodic table (Ten Speed Press, 2019) and The Sign of the Dragon, an epic fantasy with Chinese and Mongolian elements (JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2020). She has a website at marysoonlee.com and tweets at @MarySoonLee.

G. O. Clark’s writing has been published in Asimov's, Analog, Space & Time, Midnight Under The Big Top, Daily SF, HWA Poetry Showcase VII and many other publications over the last 30 years. He's the author of 15 poetry collections; the most recent, Easy Travel To The Stars, 2020. His second fiction collection, Twist & Turns, came out in 2016. He won the Asimov's Readers Award for poetry in 2001 and was Stoker Award finalist in 2011. He's retired and lives in Davis, CA. goclarkpoet.weebly.com

Marge Simon lives in Ocala, FL. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side," and serves on Board of Trustees.  She is the second woman to be acknowledged by the SFPA with a Grand Master Award. She is a Bram Stoker Award recipient and multiple finalist. Other awards: Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons Readers’ Award. Winner (with Bryan Dietrich) of the Lord Ruthven Assembly award for Best Vampire collection, 2020. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet/writer and is among the founders of the Speculative Literary Foundation. margesimon.com

Bryan D. Dietrich is a former president of the SFPA and the author of nine books of poems and co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published poems in Asimov's, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, The New Yorker, Poetry, and many other journals. Finalist for the Bram Stoker Awards (along with Marge Simon), he has won the Paris Review Prize, a Nation Award, the Lord Ruthven Award, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. Bryan is Professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.

John Philip Johnson is a Pushcart-prize winning poet who writes science fiction and fantasy. He has had work in Asimov’s, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Rattle, and elsewhere, including Ted Kooser’s newspaper column, "American Life in Poetry." He has two comic books of graphic poetry, Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town, and The Book of Fly, with poems like little Twilight Zone episodes. Both books are available at his website, johnphilipjohnson.com

Christina Olson is the author of Terminal Human Velocity. Her chapbook The Last Mastodon won the Rattle 2019 Chapbook Contest. Other work appears in The Atlantic, The Normal School, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction. She is an associate professor at Georgia Southern University and tweets about coneys and mastodons as @olsonquest.

Herb Kauderer is an English Professor at Hilbert College, and holds a PhD, an MFA in Creative Writing, and five other degrees.  Fragments from the Book of the After-Dead was his seventeenth poetry collection, and was followed by the mainstream chapbook Frozen at the Edges. His writing has won the Asimov’s Readers’ Award, been a finalist for the Analog AnLab Readers’ Award, and received Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He has also been nominated for the Pushcart, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star awards. He is an assistant poetry editor at Amazing Stories, and co-edits (with Sandra J. Lindow) “SpecPo Reviews” on the SpecPo Blog. More about Herb and his writing can be found at HerbKauderer.com