Gregory Marlow teaches animation at East Tennessee State University and works as a contract animator for various animation and game studios. Sometimes he also writes stories about robots, unicorns, and/or teleporters. His stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Every Day Fiction, and the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. He lives in East Tennessee with his lovely wife, Amanda, and adorable dog, Sadie.
Devin is a mass of uncooperative cells who occasionally get their act together enough to do things like editing, narrating, and sometimes even writing. Before signing on as Co-Editor, he was an Audio Producer here at PodCastle. He’s narrated for Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, and Far Fetched Fables. He lives in Cardiff with a brilliant scientist. He almost never posts on Bluesky @quietandscreaming and he has a wide range of disturbing cackles
Carlo Matos has published ten books, including The Quitters (Tortoise Books) and It’s Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments (Negative Capability Press). His work has appeared in such journals as Pank, Diagram, and Rhino, among many others. Carlo is a Disquiet International Literary Program and CantoMundo fellow and a winner of the Heartland Poetry Prize. He lives in Chicago with his partner and ten-year-old son. He is the editor of City Bank and a former MMA fighter and kickboxer.
Laurie McDougall is Red River Métis, born and raised in the heart of the Métis homeland. She is a beadworker seeking to live up to the legacy of her ancestors, the Flower Beadwork People, and is passionately reconnecting to the broken threads of her Indigenous culture. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada, with her spouse and two sweet cats.
Sarah is a native of Belfast and has lived in Holywood, County Down all her married life. She took early retirement from her work in the health service to go back to studying the sciences at the Open University. She has two grown up children and one rather fat cat. Sarah loves going to relax at the Spa and enjoys walks along the nearby beach in all weather. She travels widely and explores as much ancient history of every country she visits as she can. Her present interest is in the battlefields of World War 1, as she has a personal interest with three great uncles having lost their lives fighting in France.
Find a map of the United Kingdom. Look as far down and almost as far left as you can go. Zoom right in, and that’s where you’ll find David McGuire – a man with two teenage daughters and a grey beard, who writes strange adventures for children and other people who haven’t grown up. His debut middle-grade manuscript THE JETSAM won both Falmouth Fringe Book Festival’s first chapters contest and Litopia’s “Pop-Up Submissions”, as well as being runner-up in Skylark Literary’s “Soaring Stories” competition. However, this is the first time one of his stories has published.
Ian McHugh’s first success as a speculative fiction writer was winning the short story contest at the 2004 Australian national SF convention. Since then he has sold stories to professional and semi-pro magazines, webzines and anthologies in Australia and internationally. His stories have won grand prize in the Writers of the Future contest, been shortlisted five times at Australia’s Aurealis Awards (winning Best Fantasy Short Story in 2010), reprinted in Australian year’s best anthologies, honourably mentioned for world year’s bests and appeared in the Locus and Tangent Online annual Recommended Reading Lists. He graduated from the Clarion West writers’ workshop in 2006. His first collection of short stories, Angel Dust, was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Collection in 2015.
Ian lives in Canberra, Australia and is a member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild.
Maura McHugh is a prose and comic book writer living in Ireland. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the USA and Europe, and she’s had two collections published in the USA:Twisted Fairy Tales and Twisted Myths. Her web site is http://splinister.com and her Twitter handle is @splinister
Maureen McHugh has written four novels and two collections of short fiction. She won the James Tiptree Award for her first novel, China Mountain Zhang. She was a Finalist for the Story Award for Mothers & Other Monsters, and won a Shirley Jackson Award for her collection After the Apocalypse. After the Apocalypse was also named one of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of 2011.
She was born in a blue collar town in Ohio. She’s lived in New York City, Shijiazhuang, China, and Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California where she is trying desperately to sell her soul to Hollywood but as it turns out, the market is saturated.
Katie McIvor is a Scottish writer. She studied at the University of Cambridge and now lives in the Scottish Borders with her husband and baby daughter. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as The Deadlands, Interzone, and Little Blue Marble, and her three-story collection is out now with Ram Eye Press. You can find her on Twitter at @_McKatie_ or on her website at 
Katie McIvor .