Meg Elison

Meg Elison is a Hugo, Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Nebula, Sturgeon, Eugie, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Scientific American, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She lives in the Berkshires. megelison.com

A. Kendra Greene

A. Kendra Greene is author of the illuminated essay collections No Less Strange or Wonderful and The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. She became an essayist during a Fulbright grant to Korea, and a book artist at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her work has been presented at the Smithsonian, exhibited at The Reading Room, translated into French and German, collected as far away as Qatar, and vended from the White Rock Zine Machine for 25 cents a pop. It has been supported by fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab, and The American Library in Paris. Her nonfiction appears in publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, including Freeman's, The Guardian, Nautilus, Orion, and The Wall Street Journal. Currently the Viebranz Visiting Professor at St. Lawrence University, she has also taught creative writing at the University of Missouri, UNC Chapel Hill, UT Dallas, and the University of Iceland

Ina Cariño

Ina Cariño is a 2022 Whiting Award winner for poetry originally from Baguio City in the Philippines. Their work appears in the American Poetry Review, the Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for Feast, published by Alice James Books in March 2023. Their forthcoming collection Reverse Requiem is slated for publication in April 2026 (Alice James Books). In 2019, Ina founded a poetry reading series called Indigena Collective, a platform that aims to center marginalized creatives in the community.

Claire Taylor

Claire Taylor is an award-nominated writer for both adult and youth audiences. She is the author of a children’s literature collection, Little Thoughts, as well as multiple chapbooks, including Mother Nature and One Good Thing. Her full-length poetry collection, April and Back Again, will be published by Publishing Genius in February 2026, and her debut picture book, Benjamin’s Sad Day, is forthcoming from Golden Fleece Press. In addition to her writing, Claire is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Little Thoughts Press, a print magazine for kids that features writing and artwork by both adult and youth creators. She also serves as a prose editor for Yellow Arrow Publishing. Claire lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland, in an old stone house where birds love to roost. You can find her online at clairemtaylor.com.

Heather Lang-Cassera

Heather Lang-Cassera served as the 2019-2021 Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate and was a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow. She teaches Creative Writing at Nevada State University where she co-developed the Creative Writing minor. Her poetry collections, Gathering Broken Light (2021) and Firefall (2025), both with Unsolicited Press, were written with the support of Nevada Arts Council project grants. Gathering Broken Light won the NYC Big Book Award in the category of poetry, social/political. Her science-fiction novel-in-progress, Flight, is also being written with support from a Nevada Arts Council grant. She is the poetry editor for Black Fox Literary Magazine and on editorial staff with Raleigh Review. Heather is a multidisciplinary artist who often works in ceramics, which have been shown in Nevada and Wyoming. She also loves hiking, swimming, motorcycling, and spending time with her dogs.

A.C. Wise

A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling, Hooked, and Ballad of the Bone Road, along with various novellas, collections, and short stories. Her work has won the Sunburst Award and been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, British Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, Aurora, Ignyte, and Lambda Literary Awards. In addition to her fiction, she contributes regular review columns to Locus and Apex Magazine.

Tyler Orion Glauz-Todrank

Tyler Orion Glauz-Todrank (they/them) lives in the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains. They have completed an MFA in Writing & Publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MA In Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies where they are currently pursuing a PhD in the same program. They have published writing and visual art in various journals and anthologies including Orion, Brevity, The Offing, Isele, and elsewhere, and have held the role of Assistant Editor at Split Lip, The Maine Review, and Hunger Mountain.