Galen T. Pickett has been a member of the physics faculty at Cal State Long Beach since 1999. He lives in the greater LA area with his spouse, four grown children, and several canines. His writing is inspired by the grandeur of the physical world and the absurdity of the academic world, in nearly equal measure.
Peter Rustin and his wife Leslie recently moved from Los Angeles to Peter’s native Connecticut, with their three rather intelligent cats. Peter is an attorney practicing remotely with his firm in Los Angeles.
Zach George writes fiction of all lengths with surreal, dark, and mystical atmospheres. He lives in Southwest Ohio where he can often be found staring at blank pages while hoping words will spontaneously appear.
Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Utopia Magazine, MetaStellar, Milk Candy Review, Elegant Literature, The Stygian Lepus, Roi Fainéant, and others.
Matt Dennis is an English teacher and part-time author. When he’s not marking essays, he’s writing short stories and putting the finishing touches on a speculative fiction novel.
Tamanna Dhuppad is an Indian writer of speculative fiction from Raipur (C.G.). She is a member of Codex and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a Master's in Creative Writing.
Snigdha Agrawal (nee Banerjee) has an MBA in Marketing and Corporate work experience of over two decades. She enjoys writing all genres of poetry, prose, short stories and travel diaries.
G. V. Silva was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a bachelors and a masters degree in philosophy from the State University of Campinas and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Technical University of Berlin.
Liam A. Spinage is a former philosophy student, former archaeology educator and former police clerk who spends most of his spare time on the beach gazing up at the sky and across the sea while his imagination runs riot. Occasionally, this imagination has been known to spill out onto paper.
