Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical, and how a dialogue between these elements may offer us collective ways of seeing.

Her debut novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award. She was part of the Sangam House International Writers’ Residency (India) and was British Council Writer-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom).

In 2019, she participated in FIELDWORK 0.2, a multidisciplinary residency that explored alternative infrastructures for the future. She was commissioned by the Barbican (London) to create an artefact that captures the essence of the experience; On Unknown Things will be published in 2021. Recently, she has been invited to CERN IdeaSquare (Switzerland) alongside other writers and scientists to develop stories that can communicate new-age technologies to the public.

Her short story ‘Rulebook for Creating a Universe’ has been published in Magical Women and was shortlisted for the 2020 Toto Funds the Arts Award; two short stories are upcoming in Third Eye Anthology and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction: Volume II. She is currently working on her next novel.

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Dawn Meredith is an author for kids and YA in non-fiction and fiction, singer/songwriter, Specialist Literacy Teacher and Artist. She has always wanted to do voiceovers and narration and is excited to be a part of PodCastle! Dawn’s debut fantasy novel is due out later this year.

As a child, Dawn lived in England, Australia and Norway. She lives with her family in the Blue Mountains NSW. You can find her online at dawnmeredithauthor.blogspot.com.au.

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Sara S. Messenger is calling on you, dear reader, to join her in refusing and resisting the genocide of the Palestinian people. Wherever you are, throw what sand you can in the gears of genocide. Sara resides in the USA that is funding and manufacturing the bombs dropping on Gaza. A speculative fiction writer and poet, her work can be found in Fantasy Magazine; The Year’s Best Fantasy, Vol. 2; Apex Magazine; Diabolical Plots; and Strange Horizons; and her website is http://sarasmessenger.com . The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. With every breath we must resist, resist, resist.

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John Michnya is an actor, illustrator, and screen printer living in Pittsburgh PA.

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Matt Mikalatos is the author of the Sky Lantern letter and book. He works at a non-profit dedicated to helping people live better, fuller lives, and speaks at conferences all over the world.

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Anna was born and lives in Odessa. And Odessa lives in her stories and becomes the main hero in her novels “Win Can’t Lose” and “In a Cocoon”. In fictional reality Anna works in an IT company as a business system analyst. In real life she writes in the genres of mysticism, fantasy, science fiction, magic realism – everything that allows going beyond the boundaries of the ordinary. Her short stories in Russian were published in various magazines all over the world. Her novels became a diploma winner and an awardee of the prize named after Konstantin Paustovsky, Ukraine.

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Jo Miles writes optimistic science fiction and fantasy, and has stories in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and more. Jo lives in Maryland, where they help nonprofits use the internet to save the world, but mostly serve the whims of their two cats.

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Devin Miller is a queer, genderqueer cyborg and lifelong denizen of Seattle, with a love of muddy beaches to show for it. Their short fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies; their poetry can be found in Mermaids Monthly and on select King County Metro bus terminals. They have never enchanted cheese, but did once win a science fair by making feta. You can find Devin and their cat on Twitter @devzmiller.

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