Ash Bishop is a lifetime reader and a lifetime nerd, loving all things science fiction and fantasy. He has been a high school English teacher, and worked in the video game industry, as well as in educational app development. He lives in CA.
D. J. Adamson work ranges from published literary short stories, mystery novels, and psychological thrillers, to science fiction. She publishes a monthly review online magazine: Le Coeur de l’Artiste.
R. B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe & Israel. Their debut Birdverse novella, The Four Profound Weaves was nominated for the World Fantasy, Locus, Nebula, and Ignyte awards.
Veronica G. Henry is the author of Bacchanal, The Quarter Storm, and The Foreign Exchange (Feb 2023). She is a Viable Paradise alum, and a member of SFWA. Her stories have appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine.
Liz Argall’s work can be found in places like Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons & performed on the Pulp Stage. She’s worked on roleplaying games like Geist 2nd Edition and 13th Age, and creates the webcomic thingswithout.com
Ash Bishop is a lifetime reader and a lifetime nerd, loving all things science fiction and fantasy. He has been a high school English teacher, and worked in the video game industry, as well as in educational app development. He lives in Southern CA.
Johnny Caputo’s speculative fiction has appeared in Cast of Wonders and other venues, and he is the writer of the webcomic The Ballad of Lumber Jackson. He lives and teaches writing courses in Cleveland, Ohio.
David Hopkins is a fantasy novelist with an interest in Shakespeare, medieval history, fairy tales, and myth. He has written op-eds for the Dallas Morning News and Chicago Tribune, graphic novels in a variety of genres, and even a few D&D adventures.
A multi-award-winning author, Doug’s books include The Wolf at the End of the World, Chimerascope, Impossibilia, Playing the Short Game, and (soon) The Dream Rider Saga.
“One of Canada’s most original writers of speculative fiction”—Library Journal
Michael R. Johnston is the author of The Widening Gyre, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, and What Rough Beast. He lives in Sacramento, California, where he teaches high school, works with young aspiring genre writers, and daydreams of flying starfighters.
They are the last survivors of the settlers of the moon Sturnus, forty children rescued by the benevolent people of the planet Janus. Except Bear is starting to remember, and what he remembers is nothing like what he and the others have been told.
