Derek Des Anges is an emerging multigenre author living and working in London, with an interest in local and not-so-local folklore. You can find his stories in anthologies from Water Dragon Publishing, LaGrange Books, Parsec Ink, Other Worlds Ink and a few others, or search him on Amazon for full-length novels.
Brendan Detzner lives, works, and writes in Chicago. His work is sometimes funny, sometimes scary, and usually very strange. His work has appeared in Pseudopod, Bizarrocast, Tales to Terrify, and other places. He still needs to get into Escape Pod to complete the hat trick. Check out his short story collection “Beasts”. He also runs a monthly reading series in Chicago called Bad Grammar Theater.
Cartoonist Barry Deutsch lives in Portland, Oregon, in a bright blue house with bubble-gum pink trim. His 2010 graphic novel Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword was the first graphic novel to win the prestigious Sydney Taylor Award, and was also nominated for Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz, and Nebula awards. His second Hereville graphic novel, Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite, won the Oregon Book Award. The third Hereville book, Hereville: How Mirka Caught A Fish, was released in late 2015.
By day, Evan studies old Japanese Maps and crunches data for all manner of medical research at the Ohio State University. By night, he does neither of these things. His short fiction has most recently appeared in: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, and Strange Horizons. Feel free to visit him at: evandicken.com.
Kris Dikeman lives and works in New York City. Her stories have appeared in All Hallows, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Sybyl’s Garage. She is currently working on her first novel. For more about the author, see her website.
Diana Dima is a writer and neuroscientist living in Canada. Her speculative fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, khōréō magazine, The Deadlands, and elsewhere. You can find her online at http://www.dianadima.com/
Moustapha Mbacké Diop is a speculative fiction writer from Dakar, Senegal. He studies medicine and is obsessed with African mythology, animation and horror films. His work has appeared in Omenana, If There’s Anyone Left: Volume 2, and is forthcoming in the Africa Risen anthology.
Woody Dismukes is a Brazilian-American poet, author, and social advocate. He is a Clarion West graduate and was awarded an inaugural Ignyte Award. He is the author of The Way the Cowries Fall, a poetry chapbook from the American Poetry Journal, and has work featured or forthcoming in Lightspeed, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Apex, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @WoodyDismukes or on his website woodydismukes.com.
S.B. Divya (she/any) is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is a Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte, and Locus Award finalist and the author of novels Meru and Machinehood. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she is a former editor of Escape Pod, the weekly science fiction podcast. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing. Find out more at http://www.sbdivya.com .