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Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication. She’s sold close to 60 stories to various markets, and her most recent novella, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, was released by Stelliform Press in May. A poetry collection, Mary Shelley Makes A Monster, was published by Aqueduct and nominated for a Bram Stoker award. She attended Clarion West 2016, and was the writer in residence at Massey University in 2020.
Christopher Caldwell is a queer, Black American who lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, and an alumnus of Clarion West. His work has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Fiyah Literary Magazine, as well as the anthologies New Suns 2, Trouble the Waters, and Glitter and Ashes, among others. His debut collection of short stories Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is published by Neon Hemlock Press.
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Rae Carson is a Hugo and Nebula finalist, and the New York Times best-selling author of numerous novels and short stories published by HarperCollins, Del Rey Star Wars, and Disney-Lucasfilm Press. Literary honors include the Spur Award, Morris Award finalist, Indie Next List, National Book Award longlist, and ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults, among others. Rae lives in Arizona with editor C.C. Finlay and their three rescue cats.
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Cecil Castellucci is the award winning and New York Times Bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Shade, The Changing Girl, Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, The Year of the Beasts, Female Furies, Batgirl, Star Wars: Hyperspace, and Odd Duck. Her newest graphic novel is the cli-fi hopepunk book Shifting Earth. Her short have been published in variety of literary magazines and other anthologies. She has written three opera librettos incorporating comics Les Aventures de Madame Merveille (w/ Andre Ristic) Hockey Noir: The Opera (w/ Andre Ristic), and Metternich! (w/ Charlotte Marlowe). Currently they are adapting their graphic novel Soupy Leaves Home into a play and researching an unknown World War 1 soldier. They live in Los Angeles and spend time in Montreal.
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Eleanna Castroianni is a writer, poet, and oral storyteller from Greece. Eleanna’s writing has appeared in various publications such as Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld Magazine, Fireside, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, Fantasy Magazine, and The Stinging Fly, and has been reprinted in year’s best collections. In 2025, Eleanna was selected as an Aspen Words SFF Fellow. Lives in Athens with too many books, art supplies, and string instruments. For more, visit eleannacastroianni.com.
Nebula Award-nominated Beth Cato is the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge from 47North (June 2023) plus two fantasy series from Harper Voyager. She’s a Hanford, California native now residing in a far distant realm, usually with one or two cats in close orbit. Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.
Keidra Chaney is a writer, editor, and professional social justice digital rabble-rouser. She has been published in Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, Chicago Reader, Paste, and a bunch of publications that no longer exist.
She is online at keidradchaney,com and on Twitter @kdc
Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has published over fifty short stories in magazines and anthologies including Analog, Black Static, and Clarkesworld, among others, and his short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors is out now.
Andrea Chapela (Mexico City, 1990) has a degree in chemistry from the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the author of a fantasy YA series, two books of short stories, and a book of essays. She is part of Mexicona, the Mexicanx Initiative and a member of the 2017 class of Clarion West. In English translation, her publications include poems in The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation, an essay in Tupelo Quarterly, and short stories in Lightspeed and Samovar. Andrea was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021. She lives in Mexico City with her cat Pandemia. Her essay collection The Visible Unseen is forthcoming with Restless Books in the Fall of 2022.
Megan Chee is a Singaporean author who has lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, and is currently based in Singapore. Her debut science-fantasy novel The Archaeology of Falling Worlds will be published in early 2027 by Daphne Press (UK) and Bindery Books (US). Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed Magazine, and other venues. Her work has been translated into Chinese in Science Fiction World, and has been featured in The Year’s Best Fantasy anthology (Pyr Books). Her short story “The God of Minor Troubles” was narrated by Wil Wheaton on Season 1 of his audiobook podcast It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton. You can find her online at meganchee.carrd.co, @meganflchee on X and Bluesky, and @megancheewrites on Instagram and TikTok.
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