A.C. Wise’s latest publications are the novellas Grackle, and Out of the Drowning Deep. She is also the author of the novels Wendy, Darling, and Hooked, and the short story collection, The Ghost Sequences, among other works. She’s won the Sunburst Award, and been a finalist for the Nebula, Stoker, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Aurora, Shirley Jackson, Ignyte, and Lambda Literary Awards. Along with her fiction, she contributes regular review columns to Locus and Apex Magazine.

Find more by A.C. Wise

John Wiswell is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. His fiction has won both the Nebula Award and the Locus Award. His works have appeared in Tordotcom, Uncanny Magazine, the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, the No Sleep podcast, Diabolical Plots, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among other fine venues, and his works have been translated into eight different languages. This is his third time appearing on Pseudopod, following “Under the Rubble” in 2017 and “The Tentacle and You” in 2022. He adores Pseudopod and is so glad to be back. His debut novel, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, will be published by DAW Books in Spring of 2024, and it follows a shapeshifting monster who makes the mistake of falling in love with the woman who’s hunting her. You can find out more about John and his works on his Substack, at https://johnwiswell.substack.com.

Find more by John Wiswell

COLIN WOLCOTT lives in sunny Beaverton, Oregon where (he may or may not be lying by telling you) it actually doesn’t rain all that much. He spends most days juggling work, writing classes at the local Community College, and beanbags. In his free time, he enjoys both writing and reading things he finds interesting. His work has previously appeared in the pages of Strangelet Journal and the 2015 Write Well Award Anthology.

Find more by Colin Wolcott

Melody Wolfe is a Canadian writer of speculative fiction. If she’s not at school, she can be found in the woods. She’s currently whittling away at her first novel, a fantasy called “Rivertown.”

Find more by Melody Wolfe

Alyssa Wong is a Shirley Jackson-, and World Fantasy Award-nominated author, shark aficionado, and 2013 graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. She made the shortlist for the 2015 Stoker Award and won the 2015 Nebula Award for “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” which you should go check out at Nightmare Magazine. Her work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and Black Static, among others. She is an MFA candidate at North Carolina State University and a member of the Manhattan-based writing group Altered Fluid, and can be found on Twitter @crashwong.

Find more by Alyssa Wong

Eleanor R. Wood‘s stories have appeared in Bete Noire, Plasma Frequency, Bastion, and Crossed Genres, among others. She writes and eats licorice from the south coast of England, where she lives with her husband, two marvelous dogs, and enough tropical fish tanks to charge an entry fee.

Find more by Eleanor R. Wood

L. Marie Wood is a dark fiction author, screenwriter, and poet with novels in the psychological horror, mystery, and dark romance genres. She won the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper.  She is a recipient of the MICO Award and has won Best Horror, Best Action, Best Afrofuturism/Horror/Sci-Fi, and Best Short Screenplay awards in both national and international film festivals. Wood’s short fiction has been published in groundbreaking works, including the Bram Stoker Award Finalist anthology, Sycorax’s Daughters and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire. She is also part of the 2022 Bookfest Book Award winning poetry anthology, Under Her Skin.  Her academic writing has been published by Nightmare Magazine and in the cross-curricular text, Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook. Wood is the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, a horror scholar with a PhD in Creative Writing and an MFA in Speculative Fiction, and a frequent contributor to the conversation around the evolution of genre fiction.  Learn more about L. Marie Wood at www.lmariewood.com.

Find more by L. Marie Wood

Mjke’s short stories – horror, sci-fi and fantasy – have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Analog, Baen’s Universe and Intergalactic Medicine show. He’s a past winner of both Writers of the Future and the Jim Baen Memorial contest. Mjke’s longer fiction includes Deep Space Accountant, the first in his three-book Sphere of Influence series, and he’s currently putting the finishing touches to a stand-alone novel, Old Man in a Spacesuit, which he expects to be released later this year. Mjke lives on the Wirral, UK, with his wife, Sarah, a botanical artist.

Find more by Mjke Wood