Adventure fantasy writer Marina Ermakova has degrees in genetics and history, and the heart of a lifelong geek. She loves writing about outsiders, loners, and thinkers.

She’s publishing two series: The urban fantasy Terrestrial Magic, set in a post-apocalyptic Italy where a scientist researches legendary animals and dodges assassination attempts. And the YA epic fantasy Chains Carried on Wings, featuring four teenagers who navigate their broken relationships to protect their city from supernatural monsters.

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Louis Evans met the love of his life on the street and they eloped this past summer. Meet cute, happy ending. It’s good work, if you can find it. His writing has appeared in Nature: Futures, Analog SF&F, Interzone and more. He’s online at evanslouis.com and tweets @louisevanswrite

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Willow Fagan lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he reads tarot and cultivates dreams. This is his third story appearing in Fantasy Magazine. His fiction has also appeared in Behind the Wainscot.

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Cindy Fan (she/her) is an illustrator and night owl who specializes in bringing stories to life in a dreamy and thoughtful manner for print and digital media. When she’s not drawing she loves walking slowly and aimlessly admiring the textures around her. Her work can be found at www.cind.ca

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E.M. Faulds is an Australian who now calls Scotland her home. She’s an ADHD hot mess who has somehow been published in Strange Horizons, ParSec, and Shoreline of Infinity magazines, co-edited the Gallus anthology with her writing group, the Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle, and won the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. She was teased for being ‘weird’ as a child and now realises that was always her best feature. Find out more about her at her website at emfaulds.com.

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Rafaela Ferraz is a writer of short stories, articles, and essays focused on strange, macabre, and often overlooked chapters of Portuguese history. Her fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, while her non-fiction has appeared in Atlas Obscura and The Order of the Good Death. She tweets as @RafaelaWrites

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Sam Ferree reads stories.

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Writer: Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and other awards. Translated into fifteen languages.

Editor: Fantasy & Science Fiction | F&SF Online Submissions Form | Locus Award and World Fantasy Award finalist.

Teacher: Clarion, Clarion YA, Alpha Writers, and Odyssey Online Writing Classes. Former resident editor for the Online Writing Workshops (OWW).

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Jason Fischer is a writer who lives near Adelaide, South Australia.  He has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, won an Aurealis Award and the Writers of the Future Contest, and received the Colin Thiele Literature Scholarship. Jason is also a workshop faciliator, enthusiastic mentor, and a lover of anything to do with the written or spoken word. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Spectrum Writing, a creative service for autistic/neurodiverse people. Jason is powered by Earl Grey tea, Dungeons & Dragons, godawful puns, karaoke, and the Oxford Comma.

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