Linda D. Addison grew up in Philadelphia and began weaving stories at an early age. She is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award® and has received five awards for collections: The Place of Broken Things written with Alessandro Manzetti; Four Elements written with Charlee Jacob, Marge Simon and Rain Graves; How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend (short stories and poetry); Being Full of Light, Insubstantial; Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes. Addison is recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award®, HWA Mentor of the Year, SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry, and a Nebula award finalist. Catch her recent work in the anthology Afrofuturism Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy); You, Human, Vol. 2; The Big Bad Book of Kaiju, and Weird Tales Magazine #371. Her 2025 books: Everything Endless written with Jamal J. Hodge; An Illegal Feast with Consuelo G. Flores, Andrea Goyan, Elizabeth Eve King & Elizabeth Wong. She has published over 500 poems, stories, and articles.

Casey Aimer is a cyberpunk poet and editor who holds master’s degrees in both poetry and publishing. He works for an open-access scientific publisher and is founder of Radon Journal, an anarchist science fiction publisher. His poetry has been featured in Strange Horizons, Small Wonders, Worlds of IF, Space & Time, Star*Line, and many more. An SFWA and SFPA member, his work has been a Nebula and Rhysling Award finalist and Soft Star Magazine contest winner. He can be found on Bluesky and CaseyAimer.com

Kenna Alexander is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation, an award-winning writer, game designer, trans woman, and owner of Coyote & Crow Games. While she currently resides in Tacoma, Washington, her heart will always be in New Orleans. With a degree in Communications and a focus on film and television, she’s held a range of roles over the years, finally settling into the hobby game industry, wri

Kenna Alexander is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation, an award-winning writer, game designer, trans woman, and owner of Coyote & Crow Games. While she currently resides in Tacoma, Washington, her heart will always be in New Orleans. With a degree in Communications and a focus on film and television, she’s held a range of roles over the years, finally settling into the hobby game industry, writing and game design in 2014. In 2018, she began designing Coyote & Crow, a game that would set a new standard of Native representation and inclusion in the hobby game space. It broke Kickstarter records, raising more than a million dollars, was nominated for a Nebula Award for Game Writing, and went on to win the prestigious Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming. Kenna continues to design games and write stories that portray Indigenous Americans in an accurate and positive light. She provides consultation to gaming and media companies on Native American representation but isn’t limited to that genre. Her knowledge and love of hobby gaming dates back decades.

David Anaxagoras is the Nebula Award finalist author of The Tower (Recorded Books). His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Worlds of Possibility, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and elsewhere. He created and co-executive produced Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, Amazon Prime Video’s award-winning coming-of-age series for which he received a WGA award nomination. He holds an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and currently resides in Texas (but not on purpose), where he writes full time, powered by cold brew coffee, 80s vinyl, and a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Charlie Jane Anders is the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Her other books include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and the young adult Unstoppable trilogy. She also published a book about how to use creative writing to get through tough times called Never Say You Can't Survive. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, ZYZZYVA, the Paris Review, McSweeney's, Esquire and the Catamaran Literary Reader. She’s currently writing the comic book Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW.

Kit Anderson is an Ignatz Award-nominated cartoonist from Boulder, Colorado living near Zürich. Her short stories have been published by Parsifal Press and the Rumpus, and collected into Safer Places (Avery Hill, 2024). Kit makes comics about memory, nature, and space adventures sometimes, too. Second Shift (Avery Hill, 2025) is her first graphic novel.