Ashanti Fortson is an illustrator and cartoonist with a deep love for kind stories and fantastical settings. They make a space fantasy webcomic called Galanthus, and they hope to one day see the Milky Way. Clients include First Look Media, Abrams Books, Medium, Fireside Press, and Narratively. Currently available for freelance work; please contact them at ashantifortson@gmail.com. Please direct publishing inquiries to Susan Graham (sgraham@einsteinliterary.com).

Publishes longer fiction as Hache Pueyo. H. Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She was nominated for two Utopia Awards, and has won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction. Her short stories were published in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, among others. Her bilingual collection A STUDY IN UGLINESS & OUTRAS HISTÓRIAS (Lethe) came out in 2022, and her novella BUT NOT TOO BOLD (Tordotcom) is scheduled to Fall 2024.

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer, trans author, a voracious reader, a kpop fan, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR and in eir other short comics, published by The New Yorker, The Nib, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies. GENDER QUEER won a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2020. It was also the number one most challenged book in the United States in both 2021 and 2022. Eir forthcoming book is SAACHI'S STORIES, written with Lucky Srikumar, due out from Scholastic Graphix in 2025. @redgoldsparks on instagram patreon.com/maiakobabe redgoldsparks.tumblr.com