When he was five years old, Jorge Luis Borges dreamed that he was an ineffective storyteller named Emile Ansers: a Colombian socialist enamored with Emersonian ethics and Nietzschean humor. The real Emile Ansers was born on June 6th, 1996, and since the age of twelve, he has been chasing after his original dreamer without success.
Shaun Anthony McMichael has taught writing to students from around the world since 2007, in classrooms, juvenile detention halls, mental health treatment centers, and homeless youth drop-ins.
Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred reviews and journals across Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA.
John Eric Vona first made waves with a controversial editorial in his middle school newspaper (pro-pizza). For years he taught writing at Trump University, most notably his post-doctoral course: “Sophisticated and Subtle Humor.” Reviewers unanimously describe his short fiction as “short.” His latest memoir, detailing his long battle with Zyrtec addiction, is titled “A Million Little Sneezes.”
Marlene Elaine Brasco is an undergraduate student at the College of William & Mary. Her greatest passion is writing and her quest to highlight the magic found within everyday life in her work. Aside from writing, she loves reading, spending time with her family, and playing with her chocolate Labrador.
Nadim Silverman is a Bangladeshi-Jewish writer and illustrator based in New York City. He is currently studying creative writing at SUNY Stony Brook's MFA program.
Luke Feeney enjoys exploring the strange and surreal in his writing. He spends his free time crafting short stories that blur the lines between reality and the unknown.
Saswat Gautam's attempt to mediate the three-way conflict between economy, environment, and efficiency while practicing Chemical Engineering has translated into his fondness for exploring conflicts — of nations, of ideologies, of people, in one’s mind — in the literary world.
Huina Zheng, a Distinction M.A. in English Studies holder, works as a college essay coach. She’s also an editor at Bewildering Stories. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her husband and daughter.
Noel Lis lives in Vancouver, B.C., where they work in a Post Office. Some of their interests include exploring local hiking trails, metal detecting, and building Aliexpress watches. Noel was homeschooled and whatever preconceptions of that you might have are probably true.
Ken Foxe is a writer and transparency activist in Ireland. He is the author of two non-fiction books based on his journalism and likes to write short stories of horror, fantasy, SF, and speculative fiction.
Evan Kaiser is a retired physician who practiced primary care medicine in southeastern New England for over twenty-five years. He currently lives with his wife in the Providence, RI area and enjoys painting, reading, cooking, and birding.
