Sneha Mohidekar

Sneha Mohidekar reads queer space operas and indie TTRPGs on the train. Her work can be found in The Indianapolis Review, Ghost City Review, and Anvil Tongue and is forthcoming in Messy Misfits Club.

Hillary Monahan

Hillary Monahan is the New York Times bestselling author of Mary: The Summoning through Disney Hyperion. Her ten published novels span three pen names and incorporate everything from young adult horror to romance to adult urban fantasy. She lives in Massachusetts with her family of some parts people, too many parts hound dogs.

Sarah Monette

Sarah Monette and Katherine Addison are the same person.

She grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the three secret cities of the Manhattan Project. She got her B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Despite being summa cum laude, none of her degrees is of the slightest use to her in either her day job or her writing, which she feels is an object lesson for us all.

She has published more than sixty short stories, eight solo novels, and four collaborations with her friend Elizabeth Bear. Her most recent novel is The Grief of Stones (Tor Books, 2022). The Goblin Emperor (Tor Books, 2014) won the 2015 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award.

She is adjunct faculty for Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program.

You can find her on Patreon as pennyvixen.

She lives, with spouse, cats, and books, somewhere in the Upper Midwest.

Mimi Mondal

Mimi Mondal was born and raised in Calcutta, India. In various incarnations, she has been an editor with Penguin India, a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and an Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar at the Clarion West Writing Workshop 2015. Her stories, poetry and social commentary have appeared in The Book Smugglers, Daily Science Fiction, Podcastle, Scroll.in, Muse India, Kindle Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor of Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler, published in June 2017 from Twelfth Planet Press. Her first collection of stories is also forthcoming in India from Juggernaut Books. Mimi almost always enjoys the company of monsters.

Dawn Xiana Moon

Dawn Xiana Moon has appeared on Britain’s Got Talent and was named “Best Stage Performer” (twice), “Best Choreographer” (twice), and “Best Dancer” (twice) by the Chicago Reader. She is the Founder/Director of Raks Geek + Raks Inferno, a bellydance, circus, burlesque, and fire performance company that’s been featured in the Chicago Tribune, UK Channel 4 TV, and WGN-TV. “Never seen a sexy Wookiee bellydance? This can be remedied” (MSN).

In addition to her work as a dancer and fire performer, Dawn is a singer-songwriter who has sung the National Anthem for the Chicago Bulls, performed in 10 states, and released 2 albums; her music is a blend of folk/pop with influences from jazz and traditional Chinese music. She was named runner up for “Best Singer-Songwriter” (twice) and “Best International/World Music Act” by the Chicago Reader; her work has been exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center and Wing Luke Museum (Seattle).

She has also been published in TechCrunch, The Learned Fangirl, Invisible 3 (edited by Jim C. Hines and Mary Anne Mohanraj), and more.

When she’s not making art, you’ll find her managing teams of UX designers and researchers improving US government services (primarily Medicaid), giving talks at places like the University of Chicago and C2E2, or traveling the world (30 countries and counting!).

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Sunny Moraine

Sunny Moraine’s short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Nightmare, Lightspeed, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies, among other places. They are also responsible for the Root Code and Casting the Bones trilogies, and their debut short fiction collection Singing With All My Skin and Bone is available from Undertow Publications. In addition to time spent authoring, Sunny is a doctoral candidate in sociology and a sometime college instructor. They unfortunately live just outside Washington, D.C., in a creepy house with two cats and a very long-suffering husband.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of The Bewitching, The Seventh Veil of Salome, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Mexican Gothic, and many other books. She has won the Locus, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards.

Stephanie Malia Morris

Stephanie Malia Morris earned an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. She has received fellowships from Kimbilio, Periplus, and Voodoonauts, and is a graduate of the 2017 Clarion West writers workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in FIYAH, Nightmare, Apex Magazine, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her short story, “Bride Before You,” was adapted as a short film as part of the anthology Horror Noire on Shudder. You can find her at stephaniemaliamorris.com/.

Tiffany Morris

Tiffany Morris is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) writer from Nova Scotia. She is the author of the swampcore horror novella Green Fuse Burning (Stelliform Books, 2023) and the Elgin Award-winning horror poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars (Nictitating Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in the Indigenous horror anthology Never Whistle At Night (Vintage Books), as well as in Nightmare Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and Apex Magazine, among others. Find her online at tiffmorris.com or on twitter/bluesky @tiffmorris.

Lizbeth Myles

Lizbeth Myles is a Scottish writer and podcaster who’s written many audio dramas for Big Finish across the Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, and Survivor ranges. Along with five other women from around the globe, she co-hosts the award-winning Verity! podcast, as well as the Hammer House of Podcast with Paul Cornell. She’s a three-time Hugo finalist, and an infrequent updater of her website at http://lizbethmyles.com/.