Sandra Ulbrich Almazan started reading at the age of three and only stops when absolutely required to. Although she hasn’t been writing quite that long, she did compose a very simple play in German during middle school. Her science fiction novella Move Over Ms. L. (an early version of Lyon’s Legacy) earned an Honorable Mention in the 2001 UPC Science Fiction Awards, and her short story “A Reptile at the Reunion” was published in the anthology Firestorm of Dragons. She is a founding member of BroadUniverse and a long-time member of the Online Writing Workshop for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror. Her undergraduate degree is in molecular biology/English, and she has a Master of Technical and Scientific Communication degree. Her current day job is in the laboratory of an enzyme company; she’s also been a technical writer and a part-time copyeditor for a local newspaper. Some of her other accomplishments are losing on Jeopardy! and taking a stuffed orca to three continents. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband, Eugene; and son, Alex. In her rare moments of free time, she enjoys crocheting, listening to classic rock (particularly the Beatles), and watching improv comedy.

Sandra can be found online at her website, blog, and Twitter. Future projects from Sandra include a standalone fantasy story called “The Fighting Roses of Sharon”; Twinned Universes, the second book in the science fiction Catalyst Chronicles series; and Scattered Seasons, the first book in the fantasy Season Lords series.

Holly Schofield's stories have appeared in Analog, Lightspeed, and Tesseracts and many publications throughout the world. For more of her work, see hollyschofield.wordpress.com .

R. Jean Mathieu is the fiction writer of all trades. From award-winning stories of the Peace Corps and meditators on Mars (“Gods of War”) to time-traveling mysteries of a Mexican detective solving his own murder (No Time: The First Hour), Mathieu revels in different genres, different voices, and cultural chop suey. Under other noms de plume, he writes romances, thrillers, pulp adventures, Westerns, and mysteries.

Mathieu grew up in Morro Bay, California. He enrolled in college at fifteen, where he would spend the next ten years. With an Associate’s degree in International Studies and $100 in his pocket, Mathieu traveled to China, alternately working as a teahouse server, organic farmhand, Hong Kong movie extra, and English teacher. Despite being deported thrice, he won his degree in Sociology (minoring in Business) over his five years in China, refining his craft along the way. From the streets of Shenzhen to the Thousand-Handed Bodhisattva to the color of industrial sunlight in a mountain town, he continues to draw on the experiences and life lessons he learned there.

He lives in Morro Bay with his wife Melissa and daughter Lyra, where they keep a good table when not writing side-by-side or chasing trains to the next adventure. A convinced Quaker, he attends Central Coast Friends Meeting in between writing and publishing his fiction, learning new languages, and practicing Uechi-ryu karate. Besides anthologies and magazines, you can find all his stories at Amazon.com and his commentary at RJeanMathieu.com.

Brian Burt writes both short and novel-length speculative fiction. His short story "The Last Indian War" won the Writers of the Future Gold Award and was anthologized in Writers of the Future Volume VIII. His debut novel, "Aquarius Rising: In the Tears of God," won the EPIC eBook Award for Science Fiction. Book 2 of the Aquarius Rising trilogy, "Blood Tide," won the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal for Science Fiction.

Sarena Ulibarri is a speculative fiction author and editor currently living in the American Southwest. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, DreamForge, GigaNotoSaurus, Solarpunk Magazine, and elsewhere, and nonfiction essays have appeared in Strange Horizons and Grist. Her novella, Another Life, was released from Stelliform Press in 2023. As an anthologist, she has curated and published several international volumes of optimistic climate fiction, and has also served as one of the story reviewers behind the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. Find her on Mastodon or Bluesky.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Analog, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Her series of time travel novellas, beginning with THE CONTINUUM, was published by World Weaver Press. For more info, visit wendynikel.com

Jennifer Lee Rossman (they/them) is a queer, disabled, and autistic author and editor from the land of carousels and Rod Serling. Their work has been featured in dozens of anthologies, and they have been nominated for Pushcart and Utopia Awards. Find more of their work on their website http://jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com and follow them on Twitter @JenLRossman

Shel Graves is a reader, writer, and utopian thinker who lives by the Salish Sea. She writes science fiction and fantasy and has a passion for utopias and optimistic science fiction — ecofeminism, afrofuturism and solarpunk. She loves to envision better futures and join the exciting conversations happening about our possibilities. Shel has been a hospice volunteer, a Peace Corps volunteer, a communications professional in education and health care, and a journalist. She works as a caregiver at Pasado's Safe Haven, a non-profit on a mission to end animal cruelty. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College. Talk to her @Utopianista on Twitter and see pictures of her furry companions @Sheltopia on Instagram.

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, and political organizer. He is a fellow at the Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination, as well as an associate editor of Oasis, a journal of anti-capitalist thought in the desert. His fiction won the 2016 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest and was runner up in the Writing the Future Health Sci-Fi contest. His writing has also appeared in Slate, Terraform, Little Blue Marble, Grist and more. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

Jerri Jerreat's fiction has appeared in a wide variety of literary journals including The New Quarterly, The Yale Review Online, The Penmen Review, The Antigonish Review, Feminine Collective, The Dalhousie Review, Toasted Cheese Literary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Everyday Fiction and others. Four stories are in anthologies: "Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers" and "Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters" (World Weaver Press), "Nevertheless: Tesseracts 21" (Edge Publishing), and in "Dalla disperazione alla strategia" (Future Fiction). One of her plays was a finalist at the Newmarket National Ten Minute Play Festival" just before covid.

Jerri fights for environmental and social justice; she lives on an ancient limestone seabed on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee people. Ontario.

Sarah Van Goethem is a Canadian Author who resides in Southwestern Ontario. She spent lazy childhood summers on the farm, reading on the old tire swing beneath the maple tree, believing in fairytales. Now she weaves that memorable enchantment into her own short stories & novels.

She’s also convinced she was born in the wrong decade, maybe even the wrong century. She’s a nature lover, a wanderer of the fields & forests, and gatherer of vintage. Inspired by the natural world and the past, she blends history with the magic of nature in her writing.

You can find her at auctions, thrift stores, the back of her farm, maybe an abandoned house. Always in a rocking chair.

Most recently, Sarah's novels have been longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award and in PitchWars. Sarah is represented by Dorian Maffei of Kimberley Cameron & Associates Literary Agency.

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Thomas Badlan has wanted to be a writer for as long as he can remember. He studied Creative Writing at Derby University and now works as a teaching assistant in a Manchester High School. He is a long standing member of Manchester's Monday Night Writer's Group. He has had several published short stories, both through MNG, but also with World Weaver Press, Eibonvale Press, Future Fiction, Brain Mill Press and Improbable Press.