Yelena Crane is a Ukrainian/Soviet born and USA based writer, incorporating influences from borscht to burgers into her work.
With an advanced degree in the sciences, she has followed her passions from mad scientist to science fiction* writer. Her stories often explore the boundaries of technology, the complexities of human nature, and the consequences of our choices. Yelena‘s published in DSF, Nature Futures, Third Flatiron, Dark Matter Ink, elsewhere. She is an assistant editor at Flash Fiction Online.

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Richard S. Crawford is a writer and web developer who lives in an appropriately ancient and drafty house in Sacramento, California. In his time Richard has worked as a video store clerk, a barista, a secretary, a street actor at the Renaissance Faire, and a number of other jobs all leading up to the glamorous and jet setting life as a full time Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP developer. He holds a degree in Philosophy from UC Davis, and isn’t afraid to use it.

For a list of Richard’s publishing credits and random fiction, click here.

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Ian Creasey lives in Yorkshire, England. He began writing when rock & roll stardom failed to return his calls. So far he has sold seventy-odd short stories to various magazines and anthologies. His debut collection, Maps of the Edge, was published in 2011; a second collection, Escape Routes from Earth, came out in 2015. His interests include hiking and gardening — anything to get him outdoors and away from the computer screen.

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Lyndsey is a Scottish author of strange and speculative fiction, with work published or forthcoming in several magazines and anthologies, including with The Deadlands, Weird Tales Magazine, Apex, and Flash Fiction Online. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, British Fantasy Award Finalist, former Hawthornden Fellow, and a Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant Recipient. Her debut novelette “Have You Decided on Your Question” was published in April 2023 with Shortwave Publishing. Find more of her work via www.lyndseycroal.co.uk.

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Marguerite Croft is a professional writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s a recovering anthropologist and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop; her most recent publication was in the Boys of Summer anthology.

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GARRETT CROKER lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he’s not a writer, he has at different times been a college English teacher, a copywriter, and a marketer. He received his MFA in creative writing from Mills College. His fiction has appeared previously in Mad Scientist Journal‘s anthology SELFIES FROM THE END OF THE WORLD. He can be found online at THE BALLPOINT APOCALYPSE, or follow him on twitter @garrettcroker.

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Steve Cropper is Founder and Managing Director of Reputation Holdings including Reputation Online Learning. He is a pioneer in communication skills training in Australia. His career spans broadcast journalism, politics, public relations and digital media in Australia, Asia and Europe.

Since 1988, Steve has coached leaders in business, government and the not-for-profit sector around the world in a range of communication skills including media interview skills, presenter skills, speech-writing, public relations, crisis and issues management and online reputation management.

He has a Masters degree in Digital Media from the University of Newcastle and is the author of ‘Mastering Media Interviews in the 21st Century’.

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Tres Crow lives in Atlanta with the two people he loves most in the world. He’s been published in decomP, Emprise Review, Full of Crow, The Foundling Review, as well as the website Metalsucks.net. Check out his blog, Dog Eat Crow World, at the link under his name above.

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