Krystal Claxton (she/her) is a Cloud Security Engineer with unfortunate aspirations involving fiction, words, and publishing. Her work is available to read (for free!) at Cast of Wonders, Factor Four, Nature Futures, and many other fine venues. Her latest work is “Feint and Flourish” in The Colored Lens (issue Autumn 2020) and her story “Flight of the Silverbird” is forthcoming in Galaxy’s Edge. Keep up with her at KrystalClaxton.com.
Matthew Claxton is a reporter near Vancouver, British Columbia. His day job has, at times, involved biplanes, barn fires, toxic spills, live bears, and tricky grammar problems. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Mothership Zeta, and the 2017 edition of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.
Deborah Coates writes science fiction and fantasy short stories. Her first novel, Wide Open, was published by Tor in March, 2012. She’s been a been a farmhand, a factory worker, a statistician, a researcher, an educator and an IT professional.
She has dogs. She likes them lots.
Brie Code is the CEO and creative director of TRU LUV, a Toronto-based studio that makes companions—interactive experiences that aren’t quite apps and aren’t quite games. Companions are built on a framework of deepening friendship, not increasing challenge, to help you unwind and achieve your goals. Previously Brie was a lead programmer at Ubisoft Montreal on the soft, ethereal game Child of Light and three Assassin’s Creed games. TRU LUV’s first companion, #SelfCare, is one of Apple’s Best of 2018 Trends of the Year selections.
Alicia Cole is a working artist in Atlanta, GA. She works for Studio No. 7 and WonderRoot, and performs with the Atlanta Radio Theater Company. She’s a writer, editor, and interviewer, with work forthcoming in Torn Pages Anthology and Asimov’s, among other publications. She’s an active member of HWA and SFPA.
Alicia also runs Priestess & Hierophant Press. Their current publication is Darkly Told: An Audio Chapbook, a collection of dark/horror poetry by Alicia, with audio recordings by C.S.E. Cooney, and an original score by Memory Splice. “Rat Catcher”, a track from the audio chapbook, has been remixed by Memory Splice, Changes, and Stephane Badey, on Spain’s TFB Records, and is available here.
Ryan Cole is a speculative fiction writer who lives in Virginia with his husband and snuggly pug child. He is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, and his recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, MetaStellar, Voyage YA by Uncharted, Gallery of Curiosities, and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (Weird Little Worlds Press). Find him at http://www.ryancolewrites.com , and on Twitter/X at @ryancolewrites.
Tina Connolly is the author of the Ironskin and Seriously Wicked series, the collection On the Eyeball Floor, and the official Choose Your Own Adventure Glitterpony Farm. She has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. She co-hosts Escape Pod, narrates for Beneath Ceaseless Skies and all the Escape Artists podcasts, and intermittently runs the flash fiction podcast Toasted Cake. Find her at tinaconnolly.com.
Tina Connolly used to have three cats, but currently, sadly, has none. She did write a story about a small cat that ran, with her narration, on Beneath Ceaseless Skies. The title, “One Ear Back,” came from her beloved grey kitty’s habit of showing her internal conflict via her ear positioning. There’s really nothing about cats at her website, but you can go there anyway to learn more human stuff at tinaconnolly.com.
Her work includes Tor.com novella, Desdemona and the Deep, her short novel The Twice-Drowned Saint (found in Mythic Delirium’s most recent anthology The Sinister Quartet), and a poetry collection, How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes, featuring her Rhysling Award-winning poem, “The Sea King’s Second Bride.” Her forthcoming novel, Saint Death’s Daughter, will be out with Solaris in 2022. Cooney’s short fiction and poetry can be found in Jonathan Strahan’s Book of Dragons, Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and elsewhere.
