Lisa M. Bradley grew up in South Texas, before the construction of the Border Wall. She writes about boundaries and those who defy them in works ranging from haiku to novels. Her latest book is Climbing Lightly Through Forests, a tribute poetry anthology for Ursula K. Le Guin, coedited with R.B. Lemberg (Aqueduct Press). Her debut novel is Exile (Rosarium Publishing). Her first collection of short stories and poetry is The Haunted Girl (Aqueduct Press). Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous venues, including Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Cicada, Weird Tales, Mothering, and The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry. She resides in Iowa with her spouse and teen. You can follow her on Twitter (@cafenowhere) or Patreon (Lisa M. Bradley).

Louangie Bou-Montes was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and grew up flitting back and forth between rural Western Mass and el campo in Guayama, PR, surrounded by countless cousins in both locations. Thanks to those cousins, she was raised on a healthy diet of everything from The Addams Family to Silent Hill to Pet Sematary, resulting in a love of telling stories about Puerto Rican kids with morbid hobbies and senses of humor. After graduating with a BA in English from UMass Amherst, she spent nearly a decade working as a high school educator, mostly focused in Special Education, Trauma-Informed teaching, and ELL. Currently, she works as an Anti-Oppression Consultant. On any given day, you can find Louangie at home playing video games or watching cooking shows and horror movies with her spouse.

Pedro Iniguez is a speculative fiction writer who also enjoys reading and painting. His work can be found in magazines and anthologies such as Space and Time Magazine, Crossed Genres, Dig Two Graves, Tiny Nightmares, Deserts of Fire, and Altered States II. His cyberpunk novel, Control Theory (Indie Authors Press,2016) and his 10-year collection, Synthetic Dawns & Crimson Dusks, (Indie Authors Press,2020) are available on Amazon. Originally from Los Angeles, he now resides in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he is currently working on his second novel.

Alex Temblador is the Texas-based author of the award-winning novel, Secrets of the Casa Rosada. Her second novel, HALF OUTLAW, is forthcoming from Blackstone Publishing (2022). Her debut novel has won such awards like the Middle Grade/ Young Adult Discovery Prize Winner of the 2018 Writers' League of Texas Book Awards, Kirkus' Best of YA Books of 2018, the NACCS Tejas Foco Young Adult Award 2019, the Texas Library Association's TAYSHA's Nomination, and received a Starred Kirkus Review. When she's not working on her next novel, Alex is a full-time freelance travel, arts, culture, and design writer and teaches the occasional seminar on creative writing. Alex loves literary fiction with a multicultural or diversity aspect and prefers to write about family dynamics, race, ethnicity, and identity.

Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos’s critically acclaimed and award-winning works can be found in numerous anthologies, magazines, co-creator platforms, and artists’ book form. Her creative mediums are principally prose, comics, graphic novels, and zines. She creates visual art as ANDROMEDA. Stephanie’s a Manhattanite of Nuyorico, with a heart that sails the Aegean sea. Stephanie is the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize for her story “Jean” first published in Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology and her work has been highlighted by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Kore Press, Broken Pencil Magazine, and as a Canzine2021 finalist. Featured at the 2021 AWP Conference & Bookfair as a new voice “transforming the genres” of science fiction and fantasy, Professor Latinx noted her work as “revitalizing the short comic form”. Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back is her genre-bending, multi-medium debut short story collection and multi-artist collaboration (Janus Point Press, 2024) which had a stellar preorder campaign on Kickstarter. As a novelist she writes literary and speculative fiction, though ask her and she’ll say she writes comic book realism. Many of her works have been for benefits, including: #GetUsPPE; INSIDER ART: Female & Non-Binary Comic Book Retailer Fund; and the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. She’s the creator of Zine100, a public health benefit zine she successfully funded on Kickstarter. In 2022 she launched Janus Point Press, an imprint with her selected works and a boutique publisher to artist commissioned pieces, artists’ books and print collections. Other fun facts: Stephanie’s roots are in the waters of El Fanguito Santurce Puerto Rico and the Epirot mountains of Greece, prominent themes of her works. She’s reviewed comics submissions for CEX Publishing, and she’s currently a board member of Graphic Mundi (imprint of Penn State University Press) where she reviews graphic novel submissions. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan (including a year with College Year in Athens, Greece) and Columbia University. Kweli keeps her sharp. Stephanie volunteers as the lead librarian fill-in for a public elementary school. She’s a mom to Amazons. Books, magazines and organizations with her work include: From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides (Ohio State University Press, 2025); Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back (Janus Point Press, 2024); Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mounthfeel Press, 2024); Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism (Janus Point Press, 2023); The Funeral Singer (Janus Point Press 2022); Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (Mad Creek, 2021); COVID CHRONICLES: A Comics Anthology (Graphic Mundi Feb 2021); Women in Comics Magazine (Issue #1: Dear Summer June 2021 “51 Solstice”, Issue #4 Blooming March 2022 “Gumercinda’s Flower”); Mermaids Monthly (February 2021 Issue #2, “Andromeda”); Elsewhere, Volume 2 (Unlikely Heroes Studios, June 2021, “A Real Selfie”); DR163 (WEBTOON); Insider Art (November 2020, “Little Island”); Heroes Need Masks; Salud America! featured her comedic essay on breastfeeding.