PEDRO INIGUEZ lives in Eagle Rock, California, a quiet community in Northeast Los Angeles. Since childhood he has been fascinated with science fiction, horror, and comic books. His work can be found in various magazines and anthologies, including Space and Time Magazine, Crossed Genres, Dig Two Graves, Writers of Mystery and Imagination, Deserts of Fire, and Altered States II. His cyberpunk novel, Control Theory, was released in 2016. He can be found online at pedroiniguezauthor.com.
JAC JEMC teaches creative writing at the University of California San Diego. She is the author of five books of fiction, including The Grip of It and False Bingo.
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES is the author of sixteen and a half novels, six story collections, a couple of novellas, and a couple of one-shot comic books. Most recent works are Mapping the Interior and My Hero. Next are The Only Good Indians and Night of the Mannequins. Jones lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.
DAEHYUN KIM has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Hong Kong, New York, Miami, Paris, London, Bangkok, Singapore, Oslo, and Romania. He was trained in the traditional painting techniques of Korean Art and studied East Asian art history, graduating with a BFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University.
LINDSAY KING-MILLER is the author of Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls. She lives in Denver with her partner and two children.
MONIQUE LABAN is a fiction writer and essayist based in New York. Her nonfiction has appeared in Electric Literature and Catapult. She is an alumna of the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop, the 2019 Viable Paradise Workshop, and the 2017 Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA) Workshop.
HILARY LEICHTER is the author of the novel Temporary. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and Conjunctions. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
BEN LOORY is the author of the collections Tales of Falling and Flying and Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, The Sewanee Review, and A Public Space, and on This American Life and Selected Shorts.
CANISIA LUBRIN is a St. Lucian Canadian writer, editor, critic, and teacher published and anthologized internationally, with translations of her work in Spanish, Italian, French, and German. Her poetry debut, Voodoo Hypothesis, was named a CBC Best Book and garnered multiple award nominations. The Dyzgraphxst is her second poetry book. “Cedar Grove Rose” is part of Code Noir, her in-progress short story collection. Lubrin holds an MFA from the University of Guelph.
JEI D. MARCADE is a Korean American speculative fiction writer whose work has appeared in sub-Q, Uncanny Magazine, and Strange Horizons, among other publications. They can be found haunting jeidmarcade.com or tweeting sporadically at @JeiDMarcade.
HELEN McCLORY is the author of On the Edges of Vision, Mayhem & Death, and The Goldblum Variations. There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart.
SAM J. MILLER is the last in a long line of butchers. He is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (Nebula finalist and winner of the hopefully-soon-to-be-renamed John W. Campbell Memorial Award). A graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, Miller lives in New York City.
ALANA MOHAMED is a writer and librarian from Queens, New York. She is currently working on a short story collection, as well as a collection of essays about running late to the proverbial party.
RICHIE NARVAEZ is the author of two novels, Hipster Death Rattle and Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco, as well as two collections of short fiction, Roachkiller and Other Stories, which won the Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology/ Short Story Collection, and Noiryorican. He teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and lives in the Bronx.
KEVIN NGUYEN is the author of New Waves. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
ALLANA C. NOYES is a literary translator from Reno, Nevada. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and was a Fulbright fellow in Mexico. In 2018, she was the winner of the World Literature Today Translation Prize in Poetry, and, in 2020, was selected for the emerging translator fellowship at the Banff Centre. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote, Lunch Ticket, Exchanges, Litro, and elsewhere.
SHELLY ORIA is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0; the coauthor, with Alice Sola Kim, of the digital novella CLEAN; and the editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and elsewhere, has been translated into other languages, and has won a number of awards. Oria lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she has a private practice as a life and creativity coach.
LILLIAM RIVERA is the author of the young adult novels Dealing in Dreams, The Education of Margot Sanchez, and Never Look Back. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Elle, among other publications. Rivera lives in Los Ángeles.
JOSEPH SALVATORE is the author of To Assume a Pleasing Shape and the coauthor of Understanding English Grammar. He is the books editor at The Brooklyn Rail and has published work in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Collagist, Dossier, Epiphany, New York Tyrant, Open City, Post Road, Salt Hill, Rain Taxi, Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture, and The Believer Logger. An associate professor at The New School, he founded their journal, LIT.
RION AMILCAR SCOTT is the author of the story collection The World Doesn’t Require You. His debut story collection, Insurrections, was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for
