Natalie Luhrs

Natalie Luhrs writes about books and pop culture at Pretty Terrible and is co–founder of The Bias. She lost her first Hugo this year. Natalie can also be found on Twitter as @eilatan.

Scott Lynch

Scott Lynch was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1978, the first of three brothers. Early in life he worked as a dishwasher, a waiter, a graphic designer, an office manager, a cook, and a game supplement self-publisher before accidentally selling his first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, in 2004. From 2005 to 2016 Scott also served as a paid-on-call firefighter in Wisconsin. Scott currently lives in Massachusetts with his wife, award-winning SF/F novelist Elizabeth Bear, plus four cats (Duncan, Gurney, Molly, and Fafhrd) and a pair of Icelandic horses (a gelding named Ormr and a mare named Spola).

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Ewen Ma

Ewen Ma’s work can be found or are forthcoming in venues such as Uncanny, The Deadlands, Fusion Fragment, Haven Spec, Kaleidotrope, Anathema, and the anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, among others. Ewen is a graduate of Clarion West and Tin House, and was shortlisted for the Future Worlds Prize in 2020. They are a Hong Konger currently based between the UK, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Catch Ewen on Bluesky (@ewenmaer.bsky.social) or their website (http://ewenma.com).

Kari Maaren

Kari Maaren is a Canadian writer, cartoonist, musician, and academic whose first novel, Weave a Circle Round, was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award. She has a completed webcomic, West of Bathurst, and an active one, It Never Rains. She is fond of bewildering stories full of time loops, references to nineteenth-century poetry, and a cavalier defiance of the laws of physics. Visit her website, karimaaren.com, or find her on Twitter as @angrykem.

Kristian Macaron

Kristian Macaron resides in Albuquerque, NM, a land full of treasures, but is often elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook collection is titled, Storm. Other prose and poetry publications can be found in The Night Heron Barks, The Mantle Poetry, Luna Luna Magazine, Solstice Literary Magazine, Rust + Moth, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Gargoyle Magazine, and others. She is a co-founding editor of the literary journal, Manzano Mountain Review. View her work and updates at Kristianmacaron.com

Jennifer Mace

Jennifer Mace is a queer Brit who roams the Pacific Northwest in search of tea and interesting plant life. A four-time Hugo-finalist podcaster for her work with Be The Serpent, her short fiction and poetry may be found in magazines such as Baffling, Flash Fiction Online, and Reckoning. Find her other works online at www.englishmace.com.

Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and lives in Philadelphia with her partner.

M Evan MacGriogair

Writer, singer, artist. Evan sings and writes in Gàidhlig and in English. You can find their bilingual fiction at Tor.com, in Steall Magazine (summer 2020), and Uncanny Magazine (summer 2020), with poetry in Poets’ Republic and elsewhere. Evan sings with the Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association, the Alba Choir, and Fuaran. They live in Partick with two cats and dreams galore.

Toby MacNutt

Toby MacNutt is an author, artist, and teacher who lives in Burlington, Vermont with their partner and service dog. Toby’s poetry has recently been published in such magazines as Enby Life, Arsenika, and Twisted Moon; their debut collection If Not Skin was released in spring 2018 from Aqueduct Press. Find out more about Toby’s work at tobymacnutt.com or say hi on Twitter @tobywm.

Nilah Magruder

Nilah Magruder is the co-author of Creaky Acres, a middle-grade graphic novel. She is also the author of M.F.K., a middle-grade graphic novel and winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, and the picture books HOW TO FIND A FOX and WUTARYOO. She has published short stories in Fireside Magazine, FIYAH Magazine, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages, and Fiery Deeps. Nilah is the first Black woman to write for Marvel Comics, and she created the character Spider-Byte for Marvel’s Spider-Geddon event. She has also illustrated children’s books for Disney-Hyperion, Scholastic, and Penguin Random House. When she is not working, Nilah is baking, gardening, and herding her assortment of cats, dogs, and chickens.