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Jennifer Crow is grateful for friends whose words, artwork, and photography inspire both poetry and hope. Her work has appeared in a number of print and electronic venues over the years, most recently in Not One of Us, The Wondrous Real, and Abyss & Apex. You can find out more about her current projects by following @writerjencrow on Twitter.
Angel Cruz is a writer and boy band scholar living in Toronto. She is a staff writer at Women Write About Comics and Book Riot, and a 2017 Contributing Writer at The Learned Fangirl, with additional bylines at the Chicago Review of Books and Brooklyn Magazine. Find more of her work at angelcruzwrites.contently.com, or follow her on Twitter @angelcwrites.
AnaMaria Curtis is from the part of Illinois that is very much not Chicago, where she learned to be argumentative, competitive, and nostalgic. She’s the winner of the LeVar Burton Reads Origins & Encounters Writing Contest and the 2019 Dell Magazines Award, and her work has been published in magazines including Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. You can get in touch or find more of her work at anamariacurtis.com or on Bluesky @anamariacurtis.bsky.social.
Leah Cypess is the author of the middle grade series Sisters Ever After, which retells fairy tales from the points of view of the forgotten little sisters. She has also written four young adult novels and numerous works of short fiction. She is a two-time Nebula finalist and a World Fantasy Award finalist. You can learn more about her and her books at www.leahcypess.com.
Nitoo Das is a birder, caricaturist, and poet. Her first collection of poetry, Boki, was published in 2008, and her second, Cyborg Proverbs, was brought out by Poetrywala in 2017. Das’s PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University dealt with constructions of the Assamese Identity under the British. Her poetry has been published in journals like Poetry International Web, Pratilipi, Muse India, Eclectica, Seven Sisters Post, North East Review, Four Quarters Magazine, Poetry with Prakriti, Vayavya, etc. Her interests include birding and bird photography, fractals, comic books, horror films, poetry as hypertext, and translation from Assamese to English. Das teaches literature at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi.
Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom, Guillotine, The Violence, It Will Only Hurt for a Moment, Midnight at the Houdini, Mine, Camp Scare, Star Wars: Phasma, the Hit series, the Blud series, and the Shadow series, written as Lila Bowen. With Kevin Hearne, she writes the Tales of Pell. She has also written novels, comics, and short stories in the worlds of Star Wars, Disney Mirrorverse, Firefly, Marvel Action Spider-Man, Adventure Time, Rick & Morty, Labyrinth, Hellboy, and more. Find her online at www.delilahsdawson.com
J.R. Dawson (she/they) is the Golden Crown award-winning author of The First Bright Thing. They have had shorter works in places such as F&SF, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, Podcastle, and Uncanny. Dawson currently lives on Dakota land in Minnesota with her loving wife. She teaches at Drexel University’s MFA program for creative writing, and fills her free time with keeping her three chaotic dogs out of trouble. Her latest book, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World, is a sapphic Orpheus retelling.
Naomi Day is a Black interdisciplinary storyteller writing Afro-centric speculative fiction in which she interrogates her generational distance from the concept of home. Her narratives examine the nuances of life along the margins, the weight of family legacy and belonging, and the effect of sustained trauma and systems of power on queer Black lives. Her short fiction has appeared in FIYAH Magazine, Black Warrior Review, and more. She is part of the Clarion West class of 2022 and can be found at thenaomiday.com and various social medias.
Kelly Sue DeConnick first rose to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Eisner Award-winning Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her independent comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as New York Times bestsellers, and her latest ongoing comic book, FML (Dark Horse Comics), launched to immediate critical acclaim in November of 2024. Her comics have earned Alfie, Eisner, and British Fantasy Awards, the Bronze Medal for International Manga from Japan, as well as Hugo and Oregon Book Award nominations. On screen, DeConnick’s credits include work on Captain Marvel, a film that earned over $1 billion worldwide for Disney, and 2023’s The Marvels with Marvel Studios. Her most recent stage work is writing the mythic spectacle Awakening, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.
She lives in Portland, OR, with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.
Genevieve DeGuzman was born in the Philippines, raised in Southern California, and graduated from Columbia University. Her most recent speculative work also appears in Abyss & Apex, Flyway, Liminality, LONTAR, Reed Magazine, and Strange Horizons. She is a finalist for the 2018 Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2017 Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize, and a winner of the 2017 Oregon Poetry Association’s New Poets Contest. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she works on perfecting her hygge. You can find her on Twitter @gen_deg.
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