DK Mok is a fantasy and science fiction author whose novels include Squid’s Grief, Hunt for Valamon, and The Other Tree. DK has been shortlisted for seven Aurealis Awards, three Ditmars and two Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Awards. DK grew up in libraries, immersed in lost cities and fantastic worlds populated by quirky bandits and giant squid. DK is based in Australia, and her favourite fossil deposit is the Burgess Shale.

Twitter: @dk_mok

Website: www.dkmok.com

Rajat Chaudhuri is a bilingual author, translator and anthologist. His works include novels, short story collections, translations from Bengali, and edited volumes of speculative and solarpunk fiction. His most recent novel, The Butterfly Effect was twice listed by Book Riot as a ‘Fifty must read eco-disasters in fiction’ and among ‘Ten works of environmental literature from around the world’. He is also a featured contributor to video game narratives.

He is a Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow (2014) at the University of Chichester, United Kingdom, a Hawthornden Castle Fellow (2015), Korean Arts Council Fellow-InKo (2013) at Toji Cultural Centre, South Korea and a past resident of the Sangam House International Writers Residency.

Chaudhuri has advocated for climate issues at the United Nations, New York and is involved in climate and sustainability activism with a number of international groups. He speaks on storytelling, positive futures and climate change fiction in a variety of national and international venues including libraries and universities. Chaudhuri writes the popular Eleventh Hour column on environment issues for the New Indian Express.

He lives in Calcutta, India. www.rajatchaudhuri.net Twitter/Instagram: @rajatchaudhuri

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Hugo and three-time Nebula Award finalist Caroline M. Yoachim is the author of over a hundred published short stories, appearing in Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Lightspeed, among other places. Her work has been reprinted in multiple year’s best anthologies and translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Czech. Yoachim’s debut short story collection, Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories, came out in 2016. For more, check out her website at http://carolineyoachim.com

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, is forthcoming 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 more at www.SarenaUlibarri.com or follow her on Twitter @sarenaulibarri.

Sarah's love of reading, writing, and all things fantasy started with her explorations of Narnia, Middle Earth, and Pern. She's a huge enthusiast of all fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction. Flying her geek flag early, she started D&D with the good old boxed sets (and still plays today).

Sarah, her husband Gary, their three kids, and three cats live in Evansville, Indiana. In addition to being a writer and a voracious reader of all things fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal, she is a board game geek, an artist, and a dabbler in making chainmaille jewelry.

Sarah loves to write about strong women and their friendships--combined with magic and love, of course.

PS. None of her kids are actually Werewolves.

I'm a former database nerd who grew up reading SFF and never got over it. After many years of wrangling data and databases, I'm now wrangling characters and plots. I live and write in Ottawa, Canada, with a spouse, a young child, a revolving menagerie of Things In Jars, and the affective ghost of my former cat.

Natsumi Tanaka is a writer living in Japan. Her short stories have appeared in journals such as Kotori no kyuden. She is the author of the short story collection Yumemiru ningyo no okoku (2017). Translations of her short fiction have appeared in Multispecies Cities, Japanese Fantasy Drabbles, The William& Mary Review, and others.

Joel is a writer, librarian, ex-teacher and part-time human from the UK. He is constantly planning stories, novels and screenplays, a very small number of which actually get written. His genres of choice are horror and sci-fi, although the odd bit of sentiment does manage to sneak in between the freakishness and disturbing twists.

To date, Joel's stories have found their way into anthologies such as the Multispecies Cities (World Weaver Press), With Blood and Ash (Eerie River Publishing), and the Dark Drabbles series (Black Hare press), as well as featured on sites including EveryDayFiction.com, RuneBear.com and CreepyPasta.com.

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Amin Chehelnabi is an Australian-born gay Iranian with a strong interest in the speculative fiction field. He has been a Collection/Anthology Judge for the Aurealis Awards, and a First Reader for Lightspeed Magazine. He's also an alumnus of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop at UC San Diego (2014), and a recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship Award. His Publications include a horror story published with Innsmouth Free Press, which received an Honorable Mention in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seven (Edited by Ellen Datlow), and was a panelist for a three-day conference called Shaping Change: Remembering Octavia E. Butler through Archives, Art, and Worldmaking, which took place in 2016 at the Cross Cultural Center at UC San Diego. He also has a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture, and loves cats.

Phoebe Wagner is a writer, academic, and editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation. Her debut novel A Shot of Gin is forthcoming from Parliament House Press. She currently teaches creative writing at Lycoming College.

Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from adventures appropriate to children to erotica but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way.

Meyari has been married for twenty years and has no children or pets. She lives in the Puget Sound, WA and enjoys the fog, rain and cool weather that are typical here. When vacation times come, she and her husband usually go somewhere warm like Hawaii or they go on their own adventures to Japan and other far away countries.

Her life has included jobs ranging from cleaning motel rooms, food service, receptionist, building and editing digital maps, auditing and document control.

Shweta Taneja is a bestselling author based in India. She writes fiction and science for kids and adults. She is a finalist in the prestigious French award, Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and was awarded the Editor’s Choice Award for best Asian SF. She was also awarded the Charles Wallace Writing Fellowship and has given talks at WorldCon, Eurocon and the Cartoon Museum London. 

Her best known work includes urban fantasy series Anantya Tantrist Mysteries, a children book on Indian scientists, called They Made What? They Found What? graphic novel Krishna: Defender of Dharma. You can connect with her on most social platforms with her handle @shwetawrites