Isabel Cooper Kunkle was educated in Rhode Island and currently lives in Cambridge, MA. In her spare time, she reads a lot, especially since she takes the subway everywhere; she also enjoys martial arts, video games, and watching trashy TV accompanied by a fair amount of alcohol. Other short stories of hers include "Higher Education," which appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Spacesuits and Sixguns Magazine, and "Stone and Fire," which appeared in the January 2009 issue of Allegory.

Melissa Carroll is a writer and poet living on a cattle ranch. She's the editor of the anthology Going OM: Real-Life Stories on and off the Yoga Mat (Viva Editions 2014), which features candid essays by NYT bestsellers Dani Shapiro, Suzanne Morrison, Neal Pollack, Claire Dederer, and many more, with a foreword by Cheryl Strayed (author of Wild). Melissa's nonfiction and poetry have appeared on MindBodyGreen.com and in Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, Creative Loafing, Poetry Quarterly, New South Review, The Literary Bohemian, and many other literary journals. Her poetry collection Body of Starlight was published in 2019 by Sweet Aperitifs Press. Her poetry chapbook, The Karma Machine (YellowJacket Press 2011) received the Peter Meinke Award, and her collection The Pretty Machine was published by ELJ Publications in 2016. Melissa received her MFA from University of South Florida in 2012 and taught college creative writing courses for a decade. Now she teaches yoga, mindfulness, and creative writing on Zoom and travels to lead workshops. Learn more at www.TheYogaWriter.com

R.B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe to the US. R.B.'s Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves (Tachyon, 2020) is a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy awards, as well as an Otherwise Award honoree. R.B.'s poetry memoir Everything Thaws will be published by Ben Yehuda Press in 2022. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, We Are Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and many other venues. You can find R.B. on Twitter at @rb_lemberg, on Patreon at http://patreon.com/rblemberg, and at their websites rblemberg.net and birdverse.net.

Kenneth Schneyer was nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Sturgeon Memorial Award for his story, "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer". His fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clockwork Phoenix 3 & 4, Escape Pod, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and elsewhere. This first collection, The Law & the Heart, appeared in 2014, and his second collection, Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices, appeared in 2020. He is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop, and a member of both the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop and Codex Writers. He studied theater at Wesleyan and law at Michigan, and is now Professor of Humanities and Legal Studies at Johnson & Wales University. Born in Detroit, he now lives in Rhode Island with one singer, one dancer, one actor, and things with fangs. He blogs, sort of, at http://ken-schneyer.livejournal.com.