James Tiptree Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon (1915-1987). She was a photo-intelligence officer in WWII as well as a CIA agent, which formed the bulk of her career before academia. This experience was influential on her stories, including her in-depth understanding of national and international responses to crises. After her career with the CIA, she achieved a doctorate at George Washington University in Experimental Psychology in 1967, and her doctoral dissertation was on the responses of animals to novel stimuli in differing environments. You can see this reflected in her work, notably “The Screwfly Solution.” It was at this time that she started writing science fiction stories under a pseudonym to protect her new academic career, and chose a male name to fit in better at the magazines. In addition to James Tiptree, she published under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree also won two more Nebulas, two Hugos, and a World Fantasy Award. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. In 1991, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award was named in her honor, and recognizes speculative fiction that expands or explores our understanding of gender. “The Screwfly Solution” was later collected in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. If you only pick up one Tiptree collection, and you should, this is a great place to start.

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E. Catherine Tobler has sold more than 130 science fiction and fantasy short stories to markets such as Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, Fantasy, and Interzone. Her short fiction has been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Nebula Award. Her editorial work at Shimmer and The Deadlands has made her a finalist for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award.

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Tol has had a varied career, including as a hostage negotiator, car repairer and professional artist. He’s currently a lawyer (mostly in the video gaming, AI and social media fields). Technically, he’s been trained by ninjas and the SAS. In his own time he’s re-learning French and the piano, and taking up cage fighting. He summers on the Côte d’Azur and winters in London, England (and wonders if those are the right way round).

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Brenda S. Tolian, MFA, is a writer in New Orleans and author of Blood Mountain, published by Raw Dog Screaming Press. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as 101 Proof Horror, Consumed Tales Inspired by The Wendigo, The Jewish Book Of Horror, and Twisted Pulp Magazine issue 3. Her poetry has appeared in various publications, and she was a featured poet for the HWA publication Showcase Vol.8. The story “Ba’alat Ov” is one of many great stories contained in the Denver Horror Collectives, The Jewish Book of Horror. Find more information at brendatolian.com

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Sarah has been published in numerous venues including Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 Edition.

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Zhames Tremarco -has a band called Cyranoid you really should check out – HERE.

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Paul Tremblay  has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie: A Novel, Another, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film “Knock at the Cabin.” His next novel, Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, will be published in summer 2026.

His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous “year’s best” anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts and has a master’s degree in Mathematics.

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Brian Trent’s science-fiction and dark fantasy has appeared in Escape Pod, ANALOG, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, COSMOS, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, and much more. He blogs at www.briantrent.com. His new dark fantasy series, “Rahotep,” is available for Kindle.

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