Abdulkareem Abdulkareem

Abdulkareem Abdulkareem (he/him) Frontier III, is a Nigerian writer and linguist. He is a recipient of the Hill Top Creative Writing Award for Excellence, 2023. He was nominated for the Best of the Net thrice and the Best Spiritual Literature in 2023. His works appear and are forthcoming on National Museum of Language, POETRY, Transition Magazine, Isele Magazine, Waxwing, Poetry Wales, SAND, Nat Brut, West Trade Review, LOLWE, Southern Humanities Review, Qwerty Magazine, Shallow Tales Review, Nigeria News Direct, & elsewhere. He is starting his MFA at the University of Alabama in fall.

Linda D. Addison

Linda D. Addison, award-winning author of five collections, including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award and SFPA Grand Master. Her site: www.LindaAddisonWriter.com.

Senaa Ahmad

Senaa Ahmad’s short fiction appears in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Uncanny, Lightspeed, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Sunburst Award, and a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. Her short story collection, The Age of Calamities, is available for pre-order, and will be released in January 2026.

J.L. Akagi

J.L. Akagi is a queer Japanese American who writes about what scares them. Their work has appeared in multiple venues including Strange Horizons and khōréō. They are currently based in Brooklyn with their wife, daughter, and two chihuahuas. They can be contacted at jlinakagi @ gmail.com

Day Al-Mohamed

Day Al-Mohamed is an author, filmmaker, and disability advisor. She is co-author of the novel Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, is a regular host on Idobi Radio’s Geek Girl Riot with an audience of more than 80,000 listeners, and her most recent novella, The Labyrinth’s Archivist, was published July 2019. She is a member of Women in Film and Video, a Docs in Progress Film Fellowship alumna, and a graduate of the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. However, she is most proud of being invited to teach a workshop on storytelling at the White House in February 2016.

Day is a disability policy executive with more than fifteen years of experience. She presents often on the representation of disability in media, most recently at the American Bar Association, SXSW, and New York ComiCon. A proud member of Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 24-01 (5th District Southern Region), she lives in Washington DC with her wife, N.R. Brown and guide dog, Gamma. You can find her online at DayAlMohamed.com and @dayalmohamed.

Sophie Aldred

Born and raised in South East London, Sophie Aldred studied drama at the University of Manchester and worked in children’s theatre, working mens’ clubs and musicals before being cast as Ace, Doctor Who number Seven’s feisty companion. She is also well known for her work on programmes like Jackanory, Words and Pictures, Melvin and Maureens’ Music-a-grams, Corners, Tiny and Crew, and ZZZap! Her extensive voice work includes hundreds of audiobooks of many genres, dramas and animations such as Dennis and Gnasher, Bananas in Pyjamas, Peter Rabbit, Piku and Tuki, and Tree Fu Tom. Sophie has appeared in over one hundred audio dramas with Big Finish. In 2020 Sophie wrote her first novel, At Childhood’s End (published by Penguin Random House) which became an Amazon best seller. She also contributed a short story, “Chemistry,” to the anthology Origin Stories, published in 2022. Sophie reprised her role as Ace in “The Power of the Doctor,” Jodie Whitaker’s farewell story, which was chosen to celebrate the Centenary anniversary of the BBC and transmitted on 23rd October 2022. In Autumn 2023 she recorded Tales of the TARDIS with Sylvester McCoy for BBC iPlayer as part of Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary.

Rida Altaf

Rida Altaf (she/her) is a writer based in Karachi, Pakistan, and a recently-graduated Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree in Comparative Literature. She is very much interested in all kinds of weird natural and supernatural stuff, including djinn and black holes. She graduated from the Clarion West Workshop in 2025, and has short fiction published in Tasavvur and forthcoming in Tales & Feathers. In her free time, she likes to read obsessively, chug down huge mugs of chai, and watch random videos about unsettling physics theories. You can find her on instagram at @rida.malta

Miriam Alex

Miriam Alex is a seventeen-year-old from southern New Hampshire. Her work is published or forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Gigantic Sequins, Gone Lawn, and Uncanny Magazine. At the moment, she is likely playing word games on her phone while rewatching her favorite sitcoms. She hopes you have a lovely day.

K. C. Alexander

K. C. Alexander is the author of Necrotech—a transhumanist sci-fi called “a speed freak rush” by NYT bestseller Richard Kadrey and “a violent thrillride” by award-nominated Stephen Blackmoore. She co-wrote Mass Effect: Andromeda: Nexus Uprising with NYT bestseller Jason M. Hough, Bioware’s first novelization for Mass Effect: Andromeda. Other credits consist of short stories to Fireside magazine and a contribution to Geeky Giving. Specialties include voice-driven prose, imperfect characters, and reckless profanity. Also, creative ways to murder the deserving—in fiction. Probably.

She champions mental health awareness and prefers animals to people. And she writes anything she wants to.