Yuumei is an illustrator, comic artist, and designer. Her works include “Knite” and “Fisheye Placebo” webcomic series, Axent Wear Cat Ear Headphones, and various art that focuses on environmentalism, fantasy, and human nature.

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Mae Zarris-Heaney is originally from Manila, Philippines and currently lives in Melbourne, Australia where she met her better Irish half. She is an IT professional who once briefly dabbled in theater, loves extreme sports like running after her two young kids and rescuing cakes from burning in the oven. Her blog celticpinaymom.blogspot.com needs updating, but she’s busy telling the laundry to fold itself.

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Roger Zelazny (1937 – 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times. He has a crustacean named after him!

Many thanks to Trent Zelazny for working with us to share The Stainless Steel Leech and other stories with you. While you’re in the mood for fiction, check out some of his work. We recommend starting with his excellent collection The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories.

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Joule K. Zelman is a writer and wildlife advocate in the Pacific Northwest who has dabbled in an excessive number of professions, including French-to-English translator, arts journalist, and escape room manager. She loves studying languages and spoiling her cats.

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Allen Zhang is an electrical engineering student at Georgia Tech who enjoys reading fiction from around the world. He appreciates a variety of genres from Greco-Roman classical literature to contemporary Japanese smartphone applications.

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Cynthia Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the University of Southern California. Her novel, After the Dragons, was published with Stelliform Press in 2021, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Ursula K. LeGuin Award in Fiction as well as the 2022 Utopia Awards in the category of Utopian Novella. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Solarpunk Magazine, Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth, Kaleidotrope, On Spec, Phantom Drift, and other venues. She is on the web at czscribbles.wixsite.com/my-site and cz_writes on Twitter.

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Zhang is a tiny genderqueer nerd who enjoys reading danmei novels in their free time. A small town person with moderately-sized writing dreams, they like writing about low-stakes fluffy queer romances. Read their work in the Mad Scientist’s Journal and Fixi Novo’s Little Basket.

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Audrey Zhou is a Chinese American writer from North Carolina, where she studies computer science, statistics, and creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her short fiction has been published in Strange Horizons and Orion’s Belt and is forthcoming in the Silk and Sinew anthology from Bad Hand Books. When not writing, she likes to draw, watch bad TV with her friends, and curate oddly specific playlists of music. Find her @aud_zhou on Twitter and @audreyzhou.bsky.social on Bluesky

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