Donna Glee Williams is a poet and writer of literary fantasy and science fiction. She was born in Mexico, the daughter of a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas Aggie large-animal veterinarian. She’s been a lot of places; now she makes her home in the mountains of western North Carolina, but the place she lived the longest and still calls home is New Orleans.
Jordan Price Williams, a distinguished folk singer and cellist, is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Their musical journey has been marked by a deep passion for Welsh folk traditions and an innovative approach to the genre. As a key member of the acclaimed chamber folk trio VRï, Jordan has helped the ensemble secure four prestigious awards at the Wales Folk Awards. Their artistry and dedication stand as a beacon, representing the vanguard of a fresh wave of Welsh folk musicians pushing the boundaries of tradition and exploring exciting new realms of musical expression.
Caleb Wilson’s fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series, and most recently D. F. Lewis’s anthology Horror Without Victims. He and his wife live in Illinois and work at a public library.
Kai Ashante Wilson is a writer living in New York City hoping to finish his novel one day soon.
Brigitte Winter is a writer, photographer, award-winning narrative game designer, and the Executive Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater, a DC-based nonprofit that inspires young people to realize the power of their voices through creative writing. She is a 2023 alumna of Viable Paradise, and her short fiction is published in City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, and New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention. Her unpublished novel, The Normal Monster Club, was a 2024 PNWA Literary Awards Finalist, and her game, Psychic Trash Detectives, won the 2024 CRIT Award for Best Indie TTRPG.
A.C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Uncanny, Shimmer, and the Best Horror of the Year Volume 10, among other places. She has two collections published with Lethe Press, and a novella published by Broken Eye Books. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice more being a finalist for the award, twice being a finalist for the Nebula Award, and being a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. In addition to her fiction, she contributes the Women to Read and Non-Binary Authors to Read series to The Book Smugglers.
John Wiswell is a disabled author who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He has won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for “Open House on Haunted Hill,” and the Locus Award for Best Novelette for “That Story Isn’t The Story.” His debut novel, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, is due out from DAW Books in 2024.
Short fiction snuck into Ziv’s life in his teens. It struck a tent, has been entrenched ever since, and sometimes throws parties. Outside the Castle, Ziv is a programmer, a source-control evangelist, and Assistant Editor at Diabolical Plots. He spends much of his time lovingly fending off his three children. Check out zivwities.com for Ziv’s expert overanalyses of Knives Out, Too Like The Lightning, and Star Trek: Discovery, for some writerly Q&A, and for whatever he does next. He tweets, vaguely, as @QuiteVague.
Aleks Wittkamp is out there every night making moves. People wonder how he can possibly kill it so hard, and the only answer he can give them is that he was born to slay. On the rare occasion that his body is tired, he guzzles down a gallon of pineapple juice and dashes off an atomic narrative bomb before getting back out there to crush it some more. He lives his massive life in Toronto, Canada.
Jason D. Wittman lives and works in Minnesota, USA. His story “Femme Fatale” is published in the hardcover anthology The Best of Baen’s Universe, and his story “A Game of Knight Court” got an Honorable Mention in the nineteenth Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. Jason would like to thank S.N. Arly (who read “The Train” when it took place in Germany and Olga was two characters), Corey Kellgren, Douglas Texter, Marc Drummond (who tolerated much from the author during this story’s gestation), and the Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network for their contributions to this story’s success.