Adriana Kantcheva writes speculative tales of life’s emotional conundrums, often with a pinch of idealism. Born in Bulgaria, she lived in six countries before settling in Germany. She holds a PhD in molecular biology and has also worked as a science editor, scuba diver, and flight attendant. Her fiction appears in Short Édition, Stupefying Stories, Escape Pod, and elsewhere. Learn more about Adriana at CatchingWords.com or subscribe to her newsletter at sendfox.com/CatchingWords.

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Karim Kattan is a Palestinian writer from Bethlehem. He holds a doctoral degree in comparative literature. He writes in French and in English. In English, his work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Baffler, Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, khōréō, +972 Magazine, Translunar Travelers Lounge, The Funambulist, Words Without Borders, and more. His latest novel in French, L’Eden à l’aube, was published in 2024 by Éditions Elyzad.

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Nathaniel Katz blogs about genre at The Hat Rack. When not blogging, he pretends he can write fiction.

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Helen Keeble is not, and never has been, an angel. She has, however, been a teenager. She grew up partly in America and partly in England, which has left her with an unidentifiable accent and a fondness for peanut butter crackers washed down with a nice cup of tea. She now lives in West Sussex, England, with her husband, daughter, two cats, and a variable number of fish.

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Keffy R. M. Kehrli is a speculative fiction writer who currently lives on Long Island, where he’s working on a PhD in Genetics. He attended Clarion UCSD in 2008 and since then, his fiction has appeared in magazines such as Lightspeed, Apex, and Uncanny. In 2015, he launched GlitterShip, a podcast featuring LGBTQ short fiction.

He is also a former editor of Shimmer Magazine.

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Katherine Kendig lives in Champaign, IL, where she completed an MFA in Fiction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign earlier this year. She’s written plays, screenplays, poems, short stories, and most of a YA fantasy novel. Her story “The History of Women’s Suffrage” was recently published in The Cincinnati Review.

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Evan Kennedy is an Alabama native who reads so many fantasy novels that it took him twice as long as normal to earn his PhD in Psychology. He has been previously published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine and Daily Science Fiction. He lives in Alabama with his wife and his passive-aggressive rescue dog.

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Marguerite Kenner is a dual-national American living in the UK. She’s the President and CEO of the Escape Artists Foundation, the US 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to bringing free and accessible audio short fiction to a global audience. She’s a multiple Hugo Award nominee alongside Alasdair Stuart for their weekly pop culture newsletter The Full Lid, and was the editor of Cast of Wonders from 2013 to 2019.

A practicing technology lawyer, Marguerite loves performing in audio dramas and playing video games, often where people can watch. When she’s not at genre industry events advocating for the power and value of audio short fiction, she’s mentoring and teaching legal and business skills to independent creatives.

You can follow her adventures and see photos of her cat on Bluesky.

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Soila Kenya is an Africanfuturist womanist award-winning data journalist from Kenya. She is an enthusiastic reader of African SFF and the curator of @‌africansffhype on X and Bluesky. Find her at soilakenya.com.

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