Contributors with Profiles — Page 22

Ali Abbas is an author, photographer and carpenter, all of which has to fit around a day job. His short fiction has been published widely. Ali maintains a blog at www.aliabbasali.com.

Alice Baburek is an avid reader, determined writer and animal lover. She lives with her female partner and four canine companions. Retired, she challenges herself to become an unforgettable emerging voice.

Alistair Blackledge is an emerging horror author based in Michigan. When he’s not reading or writing strange tales, he listens to the whispers of the trees and occasionally, when the fire burns low and the coyote howls die down, a softly seductive voice from the beyond. Can you hear it?

Almustapha Umar, a Nigerian poet based in Jalingo Taraba state, a member at Newborn Poet Forum and Hill-top Creative Arts Foundation Taraba chapter.

Alyssa Willeford is a Seattle-born, New York City-based new writer working in the fields of sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction.

Amit Chakraborty is an author from India whose daytime job is in IT. He writes humorous short stories which show the human side of the problems faced by people.

Amita Ray is former associate professor in English and Vice Principal of a college residing in Kolkata, India, An academic of varied interests she is a Translator, Short Story writer and Poet.

Andrew Fraknoi is a retired astronomer and college professor. He has had nine stories published so far, two in anthologies, seven in magazines. He is the lead author of the free, online book "Astronomy," published by the nonprofit OpenStax project, which is the most frequently-used introductory astronomy textbook in North America.

Andrew Loria is an author who dabbles in a little bit of everything. Born and raised in the colds of Manitoba, Canada, he keeps himself warm by writing about the romantic, the extraterrestrial, the horrific, and the absurd.

Andrew Westermann lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter and two too many cats. His fiction explores the edges of consciousness and identity, imagining the strange futures we build when we forget what we used to be.

Angela Townsend is a Pushcart Prize nominee, seven time Best of the Net nominee, and the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Angela has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 34 years, laughs with her poet mother every morning, and loves life affectionately.

Anna Murray is a nationally recognized technology consultant, speaker and blogger. One of an extraordinarily rare species -- a woman who owns a successful software-development company -- she loves to combine her two passions, technology and writing.

Anna Stolley Persky is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University.

Antonio Hopson has published short stories in The Harrow Magazine, The Subterranean Quarterly, Poor Mojo's Almanac and also NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse Magazine.

Aritra Basak is a physics student based in Kolkata, India. His work explores authorship, estrangement, and bodily unease through compressed, image-driven prose.

Arón Reinhold is a Texan who reads and writes. He studied English Literature at the University of North Texas until 2014. Afterwards, He took a long break from writing due to an intense focus on social justice activism.

Ashwini Shenoy is an Indian author best known for her debut novel, Shikhandini - Warrior Princess of the Mahabharata (Leadstart, 2019) which received critical acclaim worldwide, with its Tamil version released by Swasam in 2024.

Austin Arnold is the author of works no one has ever heard of, nor much care to. He spends his time manifesting an outlandish imagination that is overdue for therapeutic intervention. With any luck, one day his imagination will capture even just one reader’s heart the way countless others have captured his.

Ayush is a writer of low-key romances and slice-of-life fiction. A speculative theorist at heart, he can often be spotted at conventional nooks of isolation around the city—atop library shelves and behind coffee spoons.

Benjamin Wilson currently lives in central Texas, is a recent college graduate, and may or may not actually exist. He tends to write weird speculative fiction with a focus in horror.

Beth Miller lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she spends her time reading and writing.

Bevy Daniel has been composing short stories and working on plays for quite a while, with a particular draw to sci-fi and speculative fiction. She lives in Chicago, IL where she spends as much time as possible taking long walks, reading, community organizing, and spending time with the people she loves.

Bill Diamond lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where he writes to try and figure it all out.

Billy Forshaw lives and works in London. He was a police officer for several years before deciding he had exacerbated his fair share of emergencies, and now teaches English (excitedly) to Secondary School students.

Blake Wickham is a Technical Writer from the Chicagoland area. He writes horror and science fiction in the company of his wife and their two cats.