AJ Fitzwater is a glittery lava lamp from Christchurch, New Zealand. Their books are the World War 2 land girls shapeshifter novella “No Man’s Land” and the lesbian capybara pirate collection “The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper”. They like bow ties and soft pillows, and they tweet @AJFitzwater.
Summer Fletcher (they/them) has written for major and indie games, and narrated over 30 short stories for various fiction podcasts. More at summerfletcher.com
Dirk Flinthart is an Australian writer of speculative fiction living in north-eastern Tasmania. When he isn’t staring blankly at a computer monitor, Flinthart spends his time raising three kids, handling a fifty-acre rural property, teaching martial arts, cooking, drinking, and playing with swords and bows.
Courtney Floyd is a neurodivergent fantasy author who grew up in New Mexico, where she learned to write between tarantula turf wars and apocalyptic dust storms. She has a PhD in British Literature and a penchant for irreverent literary allusions. Her debut dark academia novel, Higher Magic, comes out with MIRA books October 7, 2025. Find her online at Courtney Floyd
Peter M. Floyd is a fiction writer and playwright. His stories have appeared in GigaNotoSaurus, the Arcanist, and Bards and Sages Quarterly. Absence, his first full-length play, has been produced in the U.S., Italy, Norway, and Sweden, and his shorter plays have appeared in the Smith & Kraus annual “Best 10-Minute Plays” anthologies. He lives in Chestnut Hill, MA, with his lovely and patient wife, Vinita.
Vanessa Fogg dreams of selkies, dragons, and gritty cyberpunk futures from her home in western Michigan. She spent years as a research scientist in molecular cell biology and now works as a freelance medical writer. Her fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, GigaNotoSaurus, Neil Clarke’s The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4, and more. She is fueled by green tea. For a complete bibliography and more, visit her website at www.vanessafogg.com. She is active on Twitter at @FoggWriter
Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales.
Tania Fordwalker is artist and writer hailing from Tasmania, the gothic little island beneath Australia. A former Disney animator, she now works as a freelance illustrator (portfolio at www.taniawalker.com) and studies Creative Writing Honours at the University of Tasmania. She lives to tell stories, swinging between pencil and keyboard to make it happen.
Prior publications include the short story “Lapis Lazuli” in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (writing as T L Fordwalker); contributing art to Anything That Loves and the Goblin Quest RPG rulebook; and cover art for fantasy anthology Defying Doomsday and The Mocklore Chronicles series by Tansy Rayner Roberts. Look for Tania’s tabletop card game Dracula’s Feast on Kickstarter in late 2016.