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Rita Chen is a disabled cyborg witch who spends a lot of time worrying about the human condition. She lives with her partner, her fibromyalgia, and her autism in Edmonton, Alberta. Her poetry has appeared in Uncanny, Liminality, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, and Polu Texni. Find her on Twitter @expositionist.
Tania Chen is a Chinese-Mexican queer writer of living nightmares. Their work has been a finalist for the Ignyte Award, and appeared in Brave New Weird Anthology by Tenebrous Press, as well as Unfettered Hexes by Neon Hemlock, Apparition Lit, Strange Horizons, Pleiades Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Longleaf Review, The Dread Machine, among others. They are a graduate of the Clarion West Novella Bootcamp Workshop of 2021, Clarion West Workshop 2023, and a recipient of the HWA’s Dark Poetry Scholarship. Currently, they are assistant editor at Uncanny Magazine and can be found on twitter@archistratego or https://bsky.app/profile/archistratego.bsky.social
Gospel Chinedu is a Nigerian poet from the Igbo descent. He currently is an undergraduate at the College Of Health Sciences, Okofia where he studies anatomy. He is a 2021 Starlit Award Winner, runner up for the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize 2023, the Blurred Genre Contest (Invisible City Lit) 2023, Honorable Mention in the Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Prize 2023, and also a finalist in the Dan Veach prize for younger poets 2023. His works of poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, The Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Apparition Lit, Haven Speculative, and other places. Gospel tweets @gonspoetry
Joyce Chng lives in Singapore. Her fiction has appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future. Joyce also co-edited THE SEA IS OURS: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia with Jaymee Goh. Her alter-ego is J. Damask. Joyce’s pronouns are she/they.
Joyce Chng is Singaporean. She writes science fiction, YA and things in between. She can be found at @jolantru and A Wolf’s Tale.
Zen Cho is the author of Crawford Award-winning short story collection Spirits Abroad and editor of anthology Cyberpunk: Malaysia. Her debut novel Sorcerer to the Crown (Ace/Macmillan), about magic, intrigue, and politics in Regency London, won a British Fantasy Award and was a Locus Awards finalist. She lives in the UK.
Photograph by Jim C. Hines
Roshani Chokshi is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling series The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves, and Aru Shah and The End of Time, which Time Magazine named one of the Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time. Chokshi’s adult debut, The Last Tale of The Flower Bride, was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller. Her novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages and often draw upon world mythology and folklore. Chokshi is a member of the National Leadership Board for the Michael C. Carlos Museum and lives in Georgia with her family. Visit her online at roshanichokshi.com and on Instagram at @roshanichokshi.
May Chong is a bi Chinese Malaysian poet, speculative writer, and two-time Rhysling nominee whose work aims to tackle the heart and tickle the soul. Her verse has been featured in Strange Horizons, Anathema Magazine, Apparition Literary, and Fantasy Magazine. When she’s not at the keyboard, May enjoys birdwatching, spoken word (on both sides of the mic) and the worst possible puns. She is currently working on her first collection of speculative poetry. Find her on Twitter as @maysays.
John Chu is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer, and translator by night. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Tor.com, among other venues. His translations have been published or are forthcoming at Clarkesworld, The Big Book of SF, and other venues. He was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte Awards, won the Best Short Story Hugo for “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” and won the Best Novelette Nebula for “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You.”
Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and educator. A graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and the University of Kansas’s MFA, Nino’s fiction has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Lambda, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer.
One time, an angry person on the internet called Nino a verbal terrorist, which was pretty funny.
Nino’s 2019 story collection Homesick won the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize and was chosen as one of the top ten books on the ALA’s Over the Rainbow Reading List. Their novella Finna — about queer heartbreak, working retail, and wormholes — was published by Tor.com in 2020, and its sequel Defekt came out in April 2021. Nino’s YA horror debut, Burned and Buried, will be published by Holt Young Readers in 2022. They also write a sporadic newsletter, COOL STORY, BRO, about narrative storytelling and how cool it is.
C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award-winning writer, and the author of The Unbroken, the first book in the Magic of the Lost trilogy. They’ve been a personal trainer, an English teacher, and an editor, and are some combination thereof as they travel the world. When they’re not writing, they’re learning languages, doing P90something, or reading about war and [post-]colonial history. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in FIYAH, PodCastle, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
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