Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Strange Horizons, Reckoning, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. He is the former Poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, is available from Interstellar Flight Press.

Lee Murray is a writer, editor, screenwriter, and poet from Aotearoa-New Zealand. She is a four-time Bram Stoker Awards® winner, Shirley Jackson Award winner, and a USA Today Bestselling author. Read more at  https://www.leemurray.info/

Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Shimanchu-American and an award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years of experience as a professional writer in nonfiction. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), a two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year for 2020, connect with her at angelaysmith.com.

Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares, A Collection of Dreamscapes, and Tortured Willows. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in numerous venues worldwide, including Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, Weird Tales, and The Washington Post. Christina’s book on speculative haiku The Gravity of Existence is slated for December 2022. Visit her at  christinasng.com and connect @christinasng.

Geneve Flynn is a two-time Bram Stoker Award- and Shirley Jackson Award-winning fiction editor, author, and poet. Her works have been nominated and shortlisted for the British Fantasy, Ditmar, Aurealis, Australian Shadows, and Rhysling Awards, and the Pushcart Prize. Co-editor (with Lee Murray) of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women. Read more at www.geneveflynn.com.au.

Ann K. Schwader’s eighth poetry collection, Unquiet Stars, appeared in 2021 from Weird House Press.  Ann is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Finalist, and has received Rhysling Awards for both short and long form work.  She was named an Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association Grand Master in 2019, and has also appeared as Poet Laureate for NecronomiCon Providence in 2015. A Wyoming native, she now lives & writes in suburban Colorado.  Find out more at http://www.schwader.net/.

Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her fiction has appeared in Nightscript 6 and Cellar Door from Dark Peninsula Press. You can read some of her poetry in Vastarien, Utopia Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. Her first chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is available from The Quarter Press.

Deborah P Kolodji is the former president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and the first Dwarf Stars editor.  She created the SFPA journal Eye to the Telescope, along with Samantha Henderson.  She currently serves as the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America, on the Board of Directors for Haiku North America, and as moderator for the Southern California Haiku Study Group.  She has published over 1000 haiku, senryu, and scifaiku world wide, and her first full length book of haiku and senryu, highway of sleeping towns, won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation.  When not writing haiku, she enjoys walking the botanical gardens and beaches of Southern California.

John W. Sexton lives on the south-west coast of Ireland and identifies with the Aisling poetic tradition. His work spans vision poetry, contemporary fabulism and tangential surrealism. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. A new collection, The Nothingness Kit, is due from Irish experimentalist publisher Beir Bua Press at the end of the year.