Haddayr Copley-Woods is a scifi/fantasy writer, radio commentator, and essayist with pieces and performances in places such as Minnesota Public Radio, Apex, Story Club Minneapolis, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and Best American Erotica.
Andrea Corbin is an author, and the founder of the Speculative Boston reading series. Her short stories have appeared in Shimmer, Flash Fiction Online, Crossed Genres, The Sockdolager, and Recompose. Her interactive fiction has appeared in Sub-Q, and more interactive fiction projects are available on her website. She lives in the Boston area.
Stefani Cox is a speculative fiction writer based in Los Angeles, and an MFA student at Stonecoast. Her work has appeared on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, as well as in FIYAH, Speculative City, and the Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers anthology. Stefani has previously edited with the fabulous PodCastle team, and is also an alumna of the VONA/Voices workshops. She has another short story coming out in the anthology Black from the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing and is currently in progress on her first novel. Find her on Twitter @stefanicox or her website stefanicox.com. If you like her stuff, feel free to send some support her way through Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/stefanicox.
I’m primarily a science fiction and fantasy writer. I’ve been published in magazines and anthologies and have dabbled in things like RPGAs, chapbooks and other forms of writing. I’m shopping around novels, and I review fiction for BlackGate.com. And develop programming for Can*Con in Ottawa.
Other than writing, I’m also a high school teacher in Ottawa, Ontario, with a background in History, Social Studies and English. I don’t talk about it much here, but occasionally I feel compelled to reflect on my day job, which keeps me busy and entertained so much that I’m probably a teacher for life, too.
Photo by Jaclyn Canas.
Cécile Cristofari lives in South France, where she teaches literature by day and writes stories when her children are asleep. Her stories have been featured in various venues, from Interzone to Clarkesworld; her debut collection, Elephants in Bloom, is available from Newcon Press.
Marguerite Croft lives by the ocean just south of San Francisco. She has read stories for Podcastle and Escape Pod, and provided the audio narration for Tim Pratt’s The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl. She makes regular appearances on the Point Mystic podcast where she is also a story developer and script editor.
Vida Cruz-Borja is a Filipina fantasy and science fiction writer, editor, artist, and conrunner. Her short fiction and essays have been published or are forthcoming from F&SF, Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Expanded Horizons, and various anthologies. She won the 2022 IGNYTE Award for Best Creative Nonfiction for “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist.” She is the author of two illustrated fantasy short story collections: Beyond the Line of Trees (2019) and Song of the Mango and Other New Myths (2022).
Tori Curtis wrote this story on the bus rides to their job at a grocery store bakery. A migraineur with PTSD, they live in beautiful, scenic upstate New York with their unsinkable wife and incorrigible dog. You can follow them at toricurtiswrites.com or on Twitter @tcurtfish.
Drew lives in Ottawa, Canada. This is his third Escape Artists flash fiction contest win, having been among the winners of previous Pseudopod and Escape Pod contests. When he’s not working on his next contest entry, Drew can be found exploring Ottawa with his family. He can be found online at www.AllofAlgonquin.com where he writes non-fiction stories about paddling in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park.
