Jen Roper lives in Atlanta, GA. She works as a software engineer. Some day she will probably embed SETI on your thermostat and in your car assuming someone else doesn’t beat her to the punch. In the meantime, her hobbies include drinking and knowing things and making pop culture references. She also enjoys long walks after dark and seeking out Eldritch abominations in an alternate reality known as “pocket monsters”.
Josh Roseman (not the trombonist; the other one) lives in Georgia and writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, and romance. When not writing, he mostly complains about not writing. Follow him on Twitter, Threads, Instagram, or Bluesky @Listener42, where he often posts pictures of his dog.
Writer, musician, podcaster, kick-ass husband, and father. A New England native, Phil Rossi is currently a resident of Northern Virginia. When he is not hunkered down in the studio creating, he can be found either out playing rock music in the DC metro area or frolicking with his seven pets.
Eden Royce is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and her short stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, and PseudoPod. She has written articles for Writer’s Digest, The Horn Book Magazine, and We Need Diverse Books.
Her debut novel Root Magic is a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, an Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist, an Ignyte Award winner, and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for outstanding children’s literature.
Hollow Tongue, her first adult horror novella, will be published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in 2024. Find her online at http://edenroyce.com/
Cast out of the universe like cosmic Cain, A. A. Rubin roams the planes of reality, jumping through the variegated permutations of the multiverse across the dimensions of space and time. A member of SFWA and the HWA, his work has appeared recently in Love Letter to Poe, The Best Climate Change Stories (Secant), and Ahoy! Comics. Doomed to travel and record, but never find a home, he chronicles his adventures across social media as @TheSurrealAri, and can be reached–in most realities–through his website, www.aarubin.com.
Award-winning writer of dark & weird fiction. Black Static columnist. Her second collection “You’ll Know When You Get There” is available from Swan River Press.
AERYN RUDEL is a freelance writer and editor from Seattle, Washington. He is currently writing a series of novels set in the steampunk world of the Iron Kingdoms for Privateer Press. He is a notorious dinosaur nerd, an obscure polearms expert, a baseball connoisseur, and he has mastered the art of fighting with sword-shaped objects (but not actual swords). Aeryn runs a blog called Rejectomancy, which is a blunt and honest look at professional writing and the rejection that goes along with it. The tag line is: Writing, rejection, and taking it like a pro.