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). Her website has finally been updated: marysoonlee.com.

Christina Sng is the two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Dreamscapes and A Collection of Nightmares. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in numerous venues worldwide and have garnered accolades such as the Jane Reichhold International Prize, nominations for the Rhysling Awards, the Dwarf Stars, the Elgin Awards, the Pushcart Prize, as well as honorable mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Best Horror of the Year. She is one of the recipients of the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant. Her essay “Final Girl: A Life in Horror” was a finalist in the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction and her first novelette Fury was anthologized in the multiple award-winning Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women. Christina was born and raised in Singapore where she now lives with her children and a menagerie of curious pets.

Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer. She's sold close to 60 stories to various markets, including Clarkesworld, Shimmer, and Strange Horizons. She was the visiting writer in residence at Massey University in 2020, and is a member of HWA and SFWA. You can find her on Twitter at @OJCade, and her website is at https://ojcade.com/.

LindaAnn LoSchiavo, native New Yorker, recently Poetry SuperHighway's Poet of the Week, is a member of SFPA and The Dramatists Guild. A Route Obscure and Lonely and Concupiscent Consumption are her latest poetry titles. Forthcoming is a paranormal collection of ghost poems, a collaborative horror chapbook, Santa Muerte, and an Italian-centric book, Flirting with the Fire Gods, inspired by her Aeolian Island heritage. She has been leading an SFPA poetry critique group for two years.

Akua Lezli Hope is a creator and wisdom seeker who uses sound, words, fiber, glass, metal, and wire to create poems, patterns, stories, music, sculpture, adornments, and peace. She wrote her first speculative poems in the sixth grade and has been in print since 1974 with over 400 poems published. She’s been included in numerous literary magazines and national anthologies. A third generation New Yorker, her honors include the NEA, two NYFAs, an SFPA award, multiple Rhysling and Pushcart Prize nominations, among others. She twice won Rattle’s Poets Respond. Her first collection, Embouchure, Poems on Jazz and Other Musics, won the Writer’s Digest book award.  A Cave Canem fellow, her collection, Them Gone, was published in 2018. She launched Speculative Sundays, an online poetry reading series in 2020. She won editorship of Nombono, an anthology of BIPOC speculative poems, to be published fall 2021 by Sundress Publications. She is the editor of the forthcoming issue of Eye To The Telescope on the sea. Her micro chapbook of scifaiku, Stratospherics, is in the Quarantine Public Library. Otherwheres is available on Amazon. She sings songs from her favorite anime in Japanese, practices her soprano saxophone and prays for the cessation of suffering for all sentience from the ancestral land of the Seneca, in the Southern Finger Lakes region of New York State.

Andrea Blythe bides her time waiting for the apocalypse by writing speculative poetry and fiction. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale (Interstellar Flight Press, 2020),  Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (2018), and the collaboratively written Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018) with Laura Madeline Wiseman. Find her online at andreablythe.com.

Terese Mason Pierre is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, The Walrus, and Quill & Quire, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Igynte Award and Best of the Net. She is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Augur Magazine, a Canadian speculative literature journal. Terese has also co-hosted poetry reading series, organized literary events, and facilitated creative writing workshops. She is the author of chapbooks, Surface Area (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Manifest (Gap Riot Press, 2020). Terese lives and works in Toronto, Canada.