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.
Ben Wolfe is a Canadian writer of speculative fiction. If they’re not at school, they can be found in the woods. Find their website here:
https://wolfshafenpress.com
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.
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.
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.
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.
Peter Wood was the audio producer for PodCastle from 2009-2018 and remains immensely proud of his work there. Currently he is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi where he teaches a number of theatre classes. He has also been releasing music as These Liminal Days (https://theseliminaldays.com)
Before becoming a full time author, Simon designed equipment that stopped oil rigs from leaking and kept drinking water clean, raced single seater cars in the UK, tried to cure his fears of heights by becoming a licensed pilot, and along with his wife, Julie, made ends meet by becoming a private investigator and going undercover in casinos to catch gambling cheats.