Liam Hogan is an award winning short story writer, with stories in Best of British Science Fiction 2016, and Best of British Fantasy 2018 (NewCon Press). He’s been published by Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and Flametree Press, among others. He helps host Liars’ League London, volunteers at the creative writing charity Ministry of Stories, and lives and avoids work in London.

B. Morris Allen is a biochemist turned activist turned lawyer turned foreign aid consultant, and frequently wonders whether it's time for a new career. He's been traveling since birth, and has lived on five of seven continents. When he can, he makes his home on the Oregon coast. In between journeys, he edits Metaphorosis magazine, and works on his own speculative stories of love and disaster.

Jude lives in Scotland and writes to fill the gaps between full time work, wrangling her kids and trying to wear out a border collie. She's currently studying for her black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has lived in Canada, USA, and Spain, and is now based in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of the novel ANNEX and the collection TOMORROW FACTORY, which contains some of the best of his +150 published stories. His work has appeared in numerous Year's Best anthologies and been translated into Polish, Czech, French, Italian, Vietnamese and Chinese.

Tiffany Morris is a Mi'kmaw speculative fiction and poetry writer from K'jipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. She is the author of the chapbooks Havoc In Silence (Molten Molecular Minutiae, 2019) and It Came From Seca Lake! Horror Poems from Sweet Valley High (Ghost City Press, 2019). Her work has also appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Room Magazine, and Prairie Fire, among others.

Konstantine Paradias is a writer by choice, with over 150 publications across 5 languages in videogames, anthologies and magazines. People tell him he has a writing problem but he can like, quit whenever he wants, man. His short story collection, Sorry Wrong Country, is published by Rooster Republic Press.

M. L. Clark is a Canadian SF&F writer based in Medellín, Colombia.

Diane Dubas is a speculative fiction author hailing from Ontario, Canada. When not writing, she spends time daydreaming about space, dragons, and dragons in space. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications, including Circuits & Slippers, an anthology of science fiction fairytale retellings, and Wings of Renewal, a solarpunk dragon anthology. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University.

David is a multiclass surgeon/writer with the time management feat. He's had stories published with Grim Dark Magazine, Flame Tree Publishing, Cast of Wonders, and others. He has published a novel-told-through-surreal-verse-and-art with Oscillate Wildly Press, called Queen To His King. He is editing his first novel, at somewhat slower than the speed of light. He's also a soul-gem carrying member of the HWA.

Kim Harbridge writes weird little stories from her home in Surrey, British Columbia. Her writing has appeared online and in print at Accenti Magazine and The Vancouver Observer, and has been awarded a Burnaby Writer’s Society Prize and a Chester Macnaghten Prize.

Ken Gerber and Brian Hirt are brothers who collaborate across an international boundary. Ken teaches math in Montreal; Brian is a transportation researcher in Missouri. Their stories have appeared in past issues of AE, and their work has also appeared in the New Decameron and in Daily Science Fiction.

Pearl Lorentzen is a reporter and photographer in Slave Lake, Alberta. She’s published seven poems and was third runner-up for the 2017 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. She has an MA in creative writing the novel and a BA in linguistics and creative writing.

Laura Theis grew up in a place in Germany where each street bears the name of a mythical creature or fairy tale character and now lives in Oxford with her little demon dog. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Abyss&Apex and Mslexia; and has been published in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, and the US. An AM Heath Prize recipient, she has also won the Mogford Short Story Prize, the Hammond House Literary Award and was a finalist in over twenty other international poetry and fiction competitions. Her forthcoming poetry debut was selected by Paul McGrane for the 2020 Brian Dempsey Memorial Pamphlet Prize.

ToJo digs scars and wouldn't mind having a cool one like Kakashi or someone from Dr. Stone.

Cait Gordon is a disability advocate who writes speculative fiction that celebrates the reality of diversity. She is the author of Life in the ’Cosm and The Stealth Lovers. Her short story, The Hilltop Gathering, appears in the Prix Aurora Award nominated anthology, We Shall Be Monsters (Derek Newman-Stille). Cait also founded The Spoonie Authors Network and co-edited Nothing Without Us, a collection of 22 stories whose authors and protagonists identify as disabled, Deaf, neurodiverse, and/or they manage mental illness.

David Whitaker is originally from the UK though has traveled around a bit and currently resides in Australia. He has a degree in Journalism, however decided that as he's always preferred making things up it should ultimately be a resource rather than a profession. His writing has found homes with, among others, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, AEscifi.ca, Helios Quarterly, and Andromeda Spaceways Magazine.

Vikram Ramakrishnan is a Tamil writer who was born in Bangalore, India and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He writes fiction, and programs computers in New York City now. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and is working on his first novel.

DJ Tyrer is the person behind UK small press Atlantean Publishing and has been widely published in anthologies and magazines around the world, such as Amok! and Stomping Grounds (both April Moon Books), and issues of The New Accelerator, Planet Scumm, Broadswords and Blasters, and Awesome Tales, and in addition, has a comic horror e-novelette, A Trip to the Middle of the World, available from Alban Lake through Infinite Realms Bookstore.

Kristina Ten is a Russian-American writer of short fiction and poetry, and a 2019 graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Black Static, Flash Fiction Online, Witness, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Colorado, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Stephen Case is a writer of speculative fictions and a historian of science living and working in the Midwest. He has published over thirty short stories in places like Shimmer, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Daily Science Fiction, and he reviews books at Strange Horizons. His book on nineteenth-century astronomy, Making Stars Physical, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press and shortlisted for the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award, and his essays have appeared at Aeon and American Scientist.

Priya Chand is a California transplant living in the Midwest. Her work is inspired by a background in biology and analytics, and has previously appeared in magazines including Analog SF and Clarkesworld.