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.
Jon Wesick has written over a million words in poems, short stories, and novels. He is a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual and host of the Gelato East Fiction Open Mic. He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire and longs for gene editing to bring giant wombats back from extinction.
"I am a retired environmental law professor living in Santa Fe, New Mexico with my wife and two dogs. I taught environmental law for many years at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas and published extensively on environmental topics, including articles, treatises and casebooks on hazardous waste law. Sounds boring, but it put my kids through college."
Donna Gum wrote nonfiction including several published articles and ghostwriting. Unable to resist the call of fiction, she enjoys writing flash fiction in the Appalachian Mountains.
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.
Gregory Smith is a retired medical social worker. He is active on social media, including Instagram, Facebook, X and Blue Sky. Greg enjoys oldies music ( especially The Beatles), classic movies, Baseball and Football ( Go Phillies & Eagles), and reading. He is married (Holly) and has two adorable dogs ( Katie & Cocoa).
Born in Cuba, Matias Travieso-Diaz migrated to the United States as a young man. He became an engineer and lawyer and practiced for nearly fifty years. After retirement, he took up creative writing. Over one hundred and seventy of his short stories have been published or accepted for publication in a wide range of story anthologies, magazines, blogs, audio books and podcasts.
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.
Elaine Lennon is a film historian. She is the author of CHINATOWNE: The Screenplays of Robert Towne and other books about cinema. She is widely published in several international journals. She writes novels and short stories.
Sam Robinson is a Liverpudlian writer inspired by all things eerie and unsettling. He currently lives in Stockport working as a web developer and hopes to release more strange fiction in the not-too-distant future.
Jonathan D. Scott has published a fantasy novel, a dense historical novel, a rom-com, a collection of short stories, and two middle-grade novels under the name Terry Baldwin. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky with award-winning author Mary Knight, and is trying to decide what he would like to do when he grows up.
Ethan is a writer from West Virginia. His work has been previously published by the Morgantown Writers Group in their River and Stone Anthology. He writes mostly short fiction and poetry and he has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy.
Mark Barlex began writing fiction in 2021. He was a semi-finalist in the Wergle Flump Humor Poetry competition, shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and runner-up in the Missouri Review Jeffery E Smith Editors’ Prize.
H. K. G. Lowery is a writer from Newcastle upon Tyne. He graduated from Lancaster University with a MA in Creative Writing (Distinction) where he was honoured to win the 2021/2022 Portfolio Prize for his work.
Patrick S. Smith lives in Columbus, Ga with his wife and daughters. He is a 20 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He enjoys knitting, playing video games, and watching a variety of sports.
