Zoe Hana Mikuta currently attends the University of Washington in Seattle, studying English with a creative writing focus. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where she developed a deep love of Muay Thai kickboxing and nurtured a slow and steady infatuation for fictional worlds. When she is not writing, Zoe can be found embroidering runes onto […]

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation. He has written three fiction titles, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in […]

Tochi Onyebuchi is the Nebula and NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Riot Baby, which won both the New England Book Award for Fiction and an Alex Award and has been nominated for the Locus, Hugo, and IGNYTE Awards. His young adult novels include the Beasts Made of Night series and the War Girls series. He holds degrees from Yale University, […]

Sydney Paige Guerrero is a speculative fiction writer, essayist, and managing editor of an upcoming sourcebook for Philippine Speculative Fiction. She also teaches writing and literature at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Creative Writing. Her fiction and nonfiction have won two Nick Joaquin Literary […]

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Suzan Palumbo is a writer, editor, ESL teacher, the Ignyte Awards Finalist Liaison, and a member of the Hugo nominated FIYAHCON team. She is also a former associate editor of “Shimmer” magazine. Her work has been published in The Deadlands, The Dark Magazine, Weird Horror, PseudoPod, Fireside Fiction Quarterly, and […]

Sloane Leong is a cartoonist, artist, and writer of Hawaiian, Chinese, Mexican, Native American, and European ancestries. She’s written and drawn two acclaimed graphic novels, Prism Stalker and A Map to the Sun, and has short fiction credits with Fireside Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, and Entropy Magazine. She is currently living near Portland, Oregon.   […]

Rebecca Roanhorse is a NYTimes bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer and the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Rebecca has published multiple award-winning short stories and five novels, including two in The Sixth World Series, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, Race to the Sun for the Rick Riordan imprint, and her latest novel, the […]

Phenderson Djéli Clark is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His short stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless […]

Nuzo Onoh is a Nigerian/British writer of African Horror. She holds a law degree and a master’s degree in Writing, both from The University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Dubbed “The Queen of African Horror” by fans and media, Nuzo has featured on multiple media platforms, as well as delivered talks and lectures on African Horror […]

Nibedita Sen is a Hugo, Nebula, and Ignyte Award-nominated queer Bengali writer from Calcutta, and a graduate of Clarion West 2015 whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Uncanny, Podcastle, Nightmare and Fireside. She accumulated a number of English degrees in India before deciding she wanted another in creative writing, and that she was […]