Gary McKay is a speculative fiction writer from Northern Ireland. He’s had stories published in Kraxon Magazine, The Purple Breakfast Review and Tidbits, as well as in several anthologies. He’s currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Ulster, researching how contemporary Gothic novels engage with trauma and loss. He can be found on Twitter as @garycmckay.
Dafydd McKimm is a speculative fiction writer producing mainly short and flash-length stories. His work has appeared in Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, The Best of British Fantasy, and elsewhere. He was born and grew up in Wales but now lives in Taipei, Taiwan. You can find him online at www.dafyddmckimm.com.
Robin McLeavy is an actress best known for her work on AMC’s hit Western series HELL ON WHEELS. On the show she played the character of Eva, who was based on a real woman who was captured by Native Americans and given a chin tattoo to mark her as one of their own. On the show Eva starts as a prostitute who then forms a relationship with Elam, a freed slave, played by Common. By the end of the series Eva is running a brothel, and although relatively wealthy and independent, she eventually realizes that her true home is out in the wild with her horse, who she names Maat Kwissa Atev, meaning FREE SPIRIT in Mohave.
Originally from Australia, Robin trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and one of her career highlights has been performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire starring as Stella opposite Cate Blanchett as Blanche and Joel Edgerton as Stanley, and directed by the legendary Liv Ullmann.
Robin lives in Los Angeles, and is currently writing and producing a feature film about her late friend and Aussie rock’n’roll icon, Chrissy Amphlett of the DIVINYLS.
Lucy is visual designer from Ireland. She fell in love with audiobooks and narration as child, after discovering BBC world service broadcasts via long wave radio in the middle of the night. Lucy loves tropical houseplants, which you’d never guess, given how many of them she has killed.
Kathryn McMahon is a queer cross-genre writer who divides her time between the Puget Sound and southwest England. Her flash fiction has won or received nominations for various literary awards and her speculative fiction has appeared here in PodCastle as well as in places such as Luna Station Quarterly, Syntax and Salt, The /tƐmz/ Review, and the food and horror anthology Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up to No Good (Upper Rubber Boot, 2019). If she’s not writing, she’s probably in the woods with her wife and dog. Follow her on Twitter @katoscope and find more of her work at www.darkandsparklystories.com.
K.C. Mead-Brewer lives in a small green town, its dark lakes the shape of claw-marks. She’s a graduate of Tin House’s 2018 Winter Workshop for Short Fiction and of the 2018 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere.
John Meagher is the writer and narrator of Tales of the Left Hand, an ongoing fantasy series offering “swashbuckling, intrigue, and a dash of magic.” In his secret identity, he’s a graphic designer living outside Washington DC with his wife, daughter and two cats.
Simon Meddings is a freelance writer and scriptwriter, he is also an actor and has recently appeared in the horror film Polterheist directed by David Gilbank. Simon hosts the Waffle On Podcast all about classic television shows and films from around the world. Available on iTunes, Stitcher radio, and direct at Podbean.
Born and raised in India, Rati Mehrotra now lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the science fantasy duology Markswoman and Mahimata published by Harper Voyager. Her YA fantasy novel Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove is forthcoming from Wednesday Books in Fall 2022. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for The Sunburst Award and has appeared in multiple venues including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Apex Magazine, Podcastle, and Cast of Wonders. Find out more about her at ratiwrites.com or follow her on Twitter @Rati_Mehrotra.