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Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award winner, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, Aurora, and BFSA Award finalist born in Changle, Fujian, currently residing in Markham, Ontario. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, Clarkesworld, The Masters Review, among others. She is the author of A Palace Near the Wind, Linghun, and I AM AI. Find her at aijiang.ca.
Emily Jiang is the author of Summoning the Phoenix: Poems & Prose about Chinese Musical Instruments, which won the Best Book of the Year from the Chinese American Librarian Association and was listed among the Best Children’s Books of the Year at Kirkus Reviews & The Huffington Post. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California and a BA in English from Rice University. Her poetry and prose have been published at Strange Horizons, Stone Telling, and Weird Tales, among others.
Alaya Dawn Johnson is an award-winning short story writer and the author of eight novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel, The Library of Broken Worlds, was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize. Her novel Trouble the Saints won the 2021 World Fantasy Award for best novel. Her debut short story collection, Reconstruction, was an Ignyte Award and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, most notably the title story in The Memory Librarian, in collaboration with Janelle Monáe. She is currently the visiting professor in the MFA program of Queens College (CUNY), and writes essays for her newsletter, A stranger comes home (alayadj.substack.com).
Rachael K. Jones grew up in various cities across Europe and North America, picked up (and mostly forgot) six languages, and acquired several degrees in the arts and sciences. Now she writes speculative fiction in Portland, Oregon. Contrary to the rumors, she is probably not a secret android. Rachael is a World Fantasy Award nominee and Tiptree Award honoree. Her fiction has appeared in dozens of venues worldwide, including Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and all four Escape Artists podcasts. Follow her on Twitter @RachaelKJones.
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT-bestselling author of thirty-five or so novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and Killer on the Road. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.
Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrosurreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya with a Literary Arts MFA from Brown. Shingai’s work has been featured in the Best American Sci-fi and Fantasy 2020, Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021, and Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2020. She has work in or upcoming in Omenana, FANTASY magazine, FracturedLit, Khoreo, Africa Risen, and Baffling Magazine. Her debut novella & This is How to Stay Alive was published by Neon Hemlock Press in October 2021. She is the co-editor of Podcastle Magazine and the co-founder of Voodoonauts. Shingai is a creative writing teacher, an eternal student, and a lover of all things soft and Black.
Juliet Kahn is an Eisner Award-winning writer and editor living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her short stories, poetry, and criticism have been published in Black Warrior Review, The Comics Journal, and Luna Station Quarterly, among other outlets. Her first graphic novel, Fabiola & Ylini, is forthcoming. Find her on Bluesky as sansromeo and as prynnette on Instagram.
R.K. Kalaw does a reasonable job, most times, when she plays at being human. Her work has previously appeared in Uncanny. Her writing is fueled by coffee, peanut butter, and the inevitability of death. She enjoys cursing and sculpting, watching weeds thrive in her garden, experimenting with lambanog infusions, and collecting the bones of small animals. Find her on Twitter at @rk_kalaw.
Cheri Kamei (she/her) is a Japanese-Okinawan American, queer writer. Her short stories have previously been published on Tor.Com and in Scott J. Moses’s horror anthology, What One Wouldn’t Do. She resides in Honolulu, Hawaii with her wife, plants, and a corgi named Charlie.
Theo Kane (they/he) writes about queer experiences that reflect the people they’ve been and the monsters that fill their fantasies. He has been published in Uncanny Magazine, Chicks Unravel Time, Chicks Dig Comics, Outside In Gains a Soul, and The Big Book of Quickies: 69 Erotic Stories. A lifelong Pacific Northwesterner, Theo lives in Seattle with their partner, two cats, and 400+ houseplants and is a co-founder of GeekGirlCon. Connect with him.
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