Christine Lucas is a Greek author, a retired (disabled) Air Force officer and mostly self-taught in English. Her stories are her way to explore the universe as a queer and neurodivergent person who’s spent too much time in a closet already. Her work appears in several print and online magazines, including Future SF Digest, Pseudopod and Strange Horizons. She was a finalist for the 2017 WSFA award and the 2021 Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction. Her collection of short stories, titled “Fates and Furies” was published in late 2019 by Candlemark & Gleam.

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Will Ludwigsen’s work has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Strange Horizons, and the Interfictions 2 anthology–among many other places. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with writer Aimee Payne and two greyhounds, also possibly writers of some sort.

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Eric Luke is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film EXPLORERS, which is currently in development as a remake, the comic books GHOST and WONDER WOMAN, and wrote and directed the NOT QUITE HUMAN films for Disney TV. His current project INTERFERENCE, a meta horror audiobook about an audiobook… that kills, is now a Best Seller on Audible.com. His website for creative projects is Quillhammer.com.

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Kane Lynch graduated from UC Santa Cruz and now lives in Berkeley, CA.

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Scott Lynch is an American fantasy author who wrote the Gentleman Bastard series of novels. His first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, was purchased by Orion Books in August 2004 and published in June 2006 under the Gollancz imprint in the United Kingdom and under the Bantam imprint in the United States. The next two novels in the series, Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves, were published in 2007 and 2013, respectively.

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Cian Mac Mahon is an Irish Software Engineer who in a past life was the world’s youngest professional podcaster, ran a radio station and very nearly ended up being a journalist.

While he hopes to some day revive his show which podfaded many years ago, he now spends most of his free time playing about with cameras and cooking, as old microphones and sound-desks lurk in the shadows, right at the edge of eyesight.

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Alex Dally MacFarlane is a writer, editor and historian. When not translating from Classical Armenian or researching narrative maps in the legendary traditions of Alexander III of Macedon, Alex writes stories, found in Clarkesworld Magazine, Phantasm Japan, Solaris Rising 3, Gigantic Worlds and The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2014. Alex is the editor of Aliens: Recent Encounters (2013) and The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (2014), and in 2015 joined Sofia Samatar as co-editor of non-fiction and poetry for Interfictions Online. Questions of gender are vital to Alex in science fiction and history, particularly the relationship of both with each other and the present. Alex has written about post-binary gender in SF for Tor.com and in an increasing amount of fiction.

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Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was released by Graywolf Press in Fall 2017. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Calvino Prize, and nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and lives in Philadelphia with her partner.

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A.C. MacLachlan has felt a yen for both nature and adventure since age four, when she rolled down her window and invited a curious black bear into the family car. Today, armed with the crucial knowledge of when not to let bears inside (always), Anne spends her days managing social media for Ontario’s provincial park system. Anne writes fantasy and reads everything (except instruction manuals — she’s rubbish at those). Catch up with her on Twitter at @AnneMacLachlan.

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Lynne M. MacLean is a writer and health research consultant from Ottawa, Canada. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Stupefying Stories, On Spec Magazine, Tesseracts Fifteen, and Horrific History, among others. Previously, she also lived and worked as a mental health practitioner in Canada’s prairies and Northwest Territories, where much of her fiction is set. This one, however, takes place somewhere suspiciously similar to, but considerably less weedy than, her own Ottawa backyard.

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