Our Contributors

Herb Kauderer is a fifth generation native of Buffalo, NY, and currently lives on the east coast of Lake Erie near Hilbert College where he is an English Professor.  

He has been involved in medieval reenactment, gaming, comic books, and a favorite hobby of getting physicists drunk so he can understand them.

His publications include thousands of poems, hundreds of pieces of non-fiction, and eighty-five short stories.  

Jenna Hanan Moore loves to travel, take pictures, drink coffee, and immerse herself in nature or a good story. 

She lives with her husband and dog, currently in southern Illinois, but she left her heart in the Pacific Northwest. 

Her tales appear in places like Luna Station Quarterly, The Lorelei Signal, 365 Tomorrows, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, Friday Flash Fiction, and AI, Robot, an anthology from Jay Henge Publishing. 

Christopher was born and raised in Sydney Australia, still living here today. He has always been interested in literature particularly the science fiction classics (Asimov, Herbert, Jules Verne, many more…), which always offered an interesting forward-looking direction for the imagination, but also provided a great vehicle for playing with ideas and cultural nuances (which is what he likes to do in his writing). 

Paul Cesarini is a Professor & Dean at Loyola University New Orleans. Originally from the Boston area, he lives with his wife, sons, dogs, and leopard gecko in the greater New Orleans area.  

In his spare time, he serves as the editor / curator of Mobile Tech Weekly. He is a big fan of science fiction from the 1930s - 1950s.  

He has been published in numerous venues over the years, most recently including 365 Tomorrows, Antipodean SF, the Creepy Podcast, Aphelion, and Sci-Fi Shorts.

Nenad Pavlovic was born in 1983. in Niš, Serbia. 

He majored in English language and literature and eventually moved to the north of Norway, where he still resides, working as a teacher and scribbling away every Friday night with a pint of ale at his side. 

His short fiction (mostly fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and comedy) was featured in many magazines and short story collections published throughout the Balkans, and a few of them even managed to get published abroad. 

Ruben Horn is a computer scientist based in Hamburg, Germany.

Looking for a casual creative outlet, he took up writing fiction in 2021 and mostly focuses on Sci-Fi. Being disillusioned with “the state of things” particularly technology and the surrounding culture, he tries to find new meaning in his field by reading and writing fiction which, ignoring the futuristic technologies, mirrors some aspects of the status quo. 

Andrew Brenza is an American experimental writer, collage artist, and librarian. 

He is also the founder and managing editor of Sigilist Press, a micropress devoted to the publication of visual poetry. 

He currently lives in Southern New Jersey with his wife, son, and, the most demanding member of the family, a four-year-old Pomeranian. 

Andrew is the author of numerous 

Steven is a retired academic, living in West Yorkshire U.K., having previously worked in Brazil and the USA. I

He has been reading science fiction and fantasy for over fifty years now and have pretty eclectic tastes, from Philip K. Dick and Adrian Tchaikovsky, to Nnedi Okorafor, Aliete de Bodard and Anna Smith Spark. 

He also reviews books for The Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation and the British Science Fiction Association, which has introduced him to a lot of new authors.

Ryan is a graduate of the College of William & Mary and currently serve as an active-duty U.S. Army officer. 

He is originally from Virginia, and I’ve also lived in Georgia and the Republic of Moldova. 

He has always loved sci-fi, horror, and fantasy because of the unique storytelling possibilities they offer. He fervently believes that this genre reveals something about the human soul by asking the question “If something impossible was possible, how would it change who we are?” 

Paul Cesarini is a Professor & Dean at Loyola University New Orleans. Originally from the Boston area, he lives with his wife, sons, dogs, and leopard gecko in the greater New Orleans area.  

In his spare time, he serves as the editor / curator of Mobile Tech Weekly. He is a big fan of science fiction from the 1930s - 1950s.  

He has been published in numerous venues over the years, most recently including 365 Tomorrows, Antipodean SF, the Creepy Podcast, Aphelion, and Sci-Fi Shorts.

Vic has been a voice actor for over twenty years in 400 animated series & video games including very popular series like Dragonball Z, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Naruto, Pokemon and many more. 

Vic is also an accomplished singer/songwriter who not only has written for television, radio and film, but has released 6 original CDs of his own on iTunes. 

A.J. Flowers is a YA / NA Fantasy Romance author with books similar to Twilight / Fallen in terms of content and age rating. 

She retired her automotive engineering job at the ripe age of 36 and now lives in her fantasy worlds full time! She resides in Michigan with her Dutch husband, 3-year-old daughter, and her fur assistants including a Pomsky pack and two princess cats. She has 5 pen names and still isn’t quite sure how she keeps it all straight.

Tim has taught at NYU and CUNY, delivered public talks around the world on a variety of topics pertaining to science and technology, and is the founder of the Dark Data Project (darkdataproject.org), which helps humanitarian- and conservation-focused organizations tackle difficult data problems. 

Timothy Quinn's work has appeared in The New Orleans Review, The Antigonish Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Whiskey Island Magazine and The Portland Review, among others.

E A Carter is a multiple award-winning, Amazon #1 bestselling author of epic alternate historical fiction, sci-fi, and high fantasy love stories. 

She grew up in the Canadian countryside, the daughter of a reverend of modest means, with only her bicycle, her cat, and her imagination to occupy her.

Ever since she could talk she has been crafting stories. 

She writes of the complexities of love and mortality against evocative backdrops and seeks to test the perceived limits of love, death, and time.

Robert Pettus is an English as a Second Language teacher at the University of Cincinnati. 

Previously, he taught in a combination of rural Thailand and Moscow, Russia. 

This global exposure has not only influenced his teaching but also deeply informed the rich cultural and character dynamics in his writing.

His short stories have been published in numerous magazines, journals, and podcasts, including previously on Savage Planets (The Trillionaires). 

He lives in Kentucky with his wife, Mary, and his

Ejay started her author career in 2014 self-publishing a steampunk series called the Last Prophecy. 

In 2019 she wrote Behind the Veil, signing a contract with Literary Wanderlust, released on the October 1st 2021. Her second novel with Literary Wanderlust, Echo of the Evercry, will be out on July 1st 2023. 

She also released scifi series, Queen of Spades, now an award-winning series. 

Studying a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing at Deakin University, she is also a mentor for Write Hive, and

A lifelong literary enthusiast, Daniel Lenois graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Central Connecticut State University in 2023. 

In his spare time, Daniel enjoys listening to audiobooks, playing videogames, and only occasionally venturing out from his comfortable hobbit hole to explore the wide world both near and abroad, while also simultaneously enduring the soul-consuming grind of living the life of a graduate student.

Ranging in genre and style, his work has appeared i

A.J. Flowers is a YA / NA Fantasy Romance author with books similar to Twilight / Fallen in terms of content and age rating. 

She retired her automotive engineering job at the ripe age of 36 and now lives in her fantasy worlds full time! She resides in Michigan with her Dutch husband, 3-year-old daughter, and her fur assistants including a Pomsky pack and two princess cats. She has 5 pen names and still isn’t quite sure how she keeps it all straight.

Raiff Taranday was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. 

He has spent most of his adult life as an elementary school teacher, first in Massachusetts, then in locations as diverse as Kyiv, Ukraine, and Shenzhen, China. 

Now he is back in the US with his family. During the pandemic, he used writing as an outlet to stay (mostly) sane. 

Ruben Horn is a software engineer from Germany with a passion for creative side projects within and outside his domain. 

Recently, he discovered a passion for writing poetry and fiction, predominantly science fiction. His work is heavily influenced by socioeconomic and technological developments, which he explores through their stories. While drawn to the dark and gritty world of cyberpunk, Ruben is constantly striving to incorporate a more positive outlook into his work. 

K.M. Hotzel is a fantasy, science fiction, and horror author, working up the courage to share the stories hidden in her cubby. 

Born in Austria, she moved to the U.S. in her twenties where she earned two master’s degrees and a PhD. When she is not busy writing, she either plays boardgames with her family or teaches Taekwondo. 

DW Milton is a pen name. 

The author has a day job but would rather spend her time writing. 

A transplant from the East Coast to the desert of the Southwest, the author misses the beach but ten years later still finds the views of the mountains and sunsets inspiring. 

An avid artist, hiker and cyclist, the author loves movies, video games and reading any and all kinds of speculative fiction from Cyberpunk and Splatterpunk to Horror and, of course, Science Fiction.

Holly is a novelist, podcast creator, and poet, originally from England. 

Now residing in New Jersey with her wife and their three cats, they indulge in playing Dungeons and Dragons, binge-watching Doctor Who, and enjoy world building together. 

In addition to these hobbies, she has a passion for learning languages and aspires to create her own one day. She finds words deeply intriguing, believing them to be quintessential to the human experience. 

A.J. Flowers is a YA / NA Fantasy Romance author with books similar to Twilight / Fallen in terms of content and age rating. 

She retired her automotive engineering job at the ripe age of 36 and now lives in her fantasy worlds full time! She resides in Michigan with her Dutch husband, 3-year-old daughter, and her fur assistants including a Pomsky pack and two princess cats. She has 5 pen names and still isn’t quite sure how she keeps it all straight.

A.J. Flowers is a YA / NA Fantasy Romance author with books similar to Twilight / Fallen in terms of content and age rating. 

She retired her automotive engineering job at the ripe age of 36 and now lives in her fantasy worlds full time! She resides in Michigan with her Dutch husband, 3-year-old daughter, and her fur assistants including a Pomsky pack and two princess cats. She has 5 pen names and still isn’t quite sure how she keeps it all straight.

Originally from Venezuela, M.G. Viterbo traveled the world for several years until settling in Texas. 

His background in engineering allows him to pay most bills and lie convincingly when writing hard science fiction. 

He lives with Patricia, kids one to four, a big dog, and a small one. He cherishes the silence of the early morning and fills it with the noise of the keyboard. The rest of the day, he dreams.

Jeffrey Sturm. is a graphic artist in a screenplay writer from Hartford, CT, USA. Since December 2018, he has owned 7376 films located at 20 Church St in Hartford, CT, in the historic Stilts building. 

Since 2012 he has been involved with different indie film productions, which got him into script writing.

He has a passion for science-fiction storytelling. 

He is working on a new book, The Time Traveler Handbook, 4th edition which is part of the “Time Loop Saga.”

His work is published on Amazon. 

Michael Fowler writes humor and horror in Ohio, USA. He enjoys spending time with his grandkids who will definitely not be soccer players. He adores hot sauce and is gearing up to take the "one chip" challenge. 

His ideal vacation spot is the wine region near Lake Erie in northern Ohio, where shuttles convey intoxicated guests from one vineyard to another. Alternatively, a trip to the Big Easy to eat po'boy sandwiches and listen to zydeco sounds cool. 

Jay Toney was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. As a child, he always had an interest in aircraft, and with growing up during the space race—spacecraft. He joined the USAF in 1981, and got his dream job as a Tactical Aircraft Maintenance Technician. He is a veteran having served in the Gulf War. He has always been an avid reader, and started reading at an early age, reading fantasy and science fiction. 

Joe Jablonski is twice pushcart prize nominated writer based out of North Carolina, in a little town just south of Charlotte. 

He has work published in around 40 markets including K-Zine, Strange Constellations, Collective Realms, and Liquid Imagination. 

He’s been writing, as well as playing music and painting abstract works for over twenty years, though this is his first story back after nearly a five year hiatus away from the written word. 

K. A. Williams lives in North Carolina and writes speculative, mystery/crime, general fiction, and poetry. 

Writing since she was a child, none of the stories had much depth until she took a creative writing class.
 

Over 250 stories and poems have now been published in many different magazines. 

Primarily a short story author and poet, she finds writing novellas and novels difficult, but a few are available on Amazon.
 

The author enjoys 70s and 80s rock music, animated movies, and CYOA games.

Arón Reinhold is a Texan who reads and writes. 

He studied English Literature at the University of North Texas until graduating in 2014, working subsequently as a grassroots organizer to effect a just and sustainable society. 

Recently, he returned to fiction out of a love for the craft and its inherent promise to envision a different world. Reinhold has published scifi, horror, and western short stories in Wicked Shadow Press, Bewildering Stories, Black Petals, Frontier Tales, and Schlock! 

Thomas Koperwas is a retired teacher living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada who writes short stories of horror, crime, fantasy, and science fiction. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in: Anotherealm; Jakob’s Horror Box; Literally Stories; The Literary Hatchet; Literary Veganism; Bombfire; Pulp Modern Flash; Savage Planets; Dark Fire Fiction; The Sirens Call; Blood Moon Rising Magazine; Corner Bar Magazine; Free Bundle Magazine; The Chamber Magazine; Suburban Witchcraft Magazine.

Ria Rees writes from her cosy cottage in Wales, praying that her creations will never become sentient. 

She writes Science Fiction, Horror, and most often a healthy mixture of the two. 

She's especially fascinated with stories that originate in Wales and Welsh culture, and themes of abandonment and loss. 

Her work is published or forthcoming in Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Bag of Bones Press and Wyldblood Magazine.

Christopher T. Dabrowski is writer and scriptwriter from Poland. He was orn in Łódź and lives in Cracow. His passions: Writing, travelling, cinema, meditation, reading books. 

He has written numberous books pulished in the US, Spain, Germany, Poland and Canada.

His most recent works include "The Prisoner of Infinity" published in 2022 and "Escape" published in 2020.

In addition to written works, he has a number of audiobooks as well. 

E.B. Gula is a former audiologist and science major who ultimately turned to the arts side, now a PhD student in French specializing in Québécois literature, narratology, and the cognitive processes involved in reader reception. 

As a writer of both contemporary and speculative fiction, she dabbles in a broad range of story genres and forms. 

When she's not reading, writing, or studying literary theory, she enjoys cos-play, learning languages, and watching Korean dramas. 

Born and raised in the South of France, J.F Sebastian is a queer, neurodivergent science fiction writer who has been living and teaching in Toronto, Canada, for the last 18 years. 

Writing in English, and under different pen names, is a way for them to better explore and express their identity beyond their social and professional “established self”. 

Their latest stories in English have been published in Interzone (January 2023) and Tree and Stone Magazine (Queer as F* issue, October 2022). 

Robert Pettus is an English as a Second Language teacher at the University of Cincinnati. 

He was most recently accepted for publication at The Horror Zine, Allegory Magazine, The Horror Tree, JAKE magazine, The Night Shift podcast, Libretto publications, 

White Cat Publications, Culture Cult, Savage Planet, Short-Story.me, Yellow Mama, Apocalypse-Confidential, Mystery Tribune, Blood Moon Rising, and The Green Shoes Sanctuary. He lives in Kentucky with his wife, Mary, and his pet rabbit, Achilles.

Connor Fisher is the author of The Isotope of I (Schism Press, 2021) and three poetry and hybrid chapbooks including Speculative Geography (Greying Ghost Press, 2022). 

He has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Georgia. 

His poetry has appeared in journals including Denver Quarterly, Random Sample Review, Tammy, Tiger Moth Review, and Clade Song. 

He currently lives and teaches in northern Mississippi.

Bruce Boston is an American speculative fiction writer and poet, known for his awardwinning work in both genres.

He has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry also seven times. Boston has published over a hundred short stories, several novels, and his work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies.

He is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Awards and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

Andy Graber was born and raised in the northeast part of The United States.

Currently, living in the Western part. Besides writing stories and creating various types of art, He finds magicians and illusionists to be very fascinating. He is also a big fan of most sports. And enjoys playing chess, and solving riddles. He has been known to sing. Rumor has it he was actually born and raised in another galaxy in our never ending mysterious universe. 

Ben Coppin is a talented writer, editor, and web developer. 

In addition to his technical expertise, he has also written several short stories and is currently working on the third draft of his first novel. 

He has been published in a number of literary journals, including Altered Reality Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Short Fiction Break. 

In 2007, Coppin launched and edited Darker Matter, an online science fiction magazine that ran for five issues. 

Steven French is a semi-retired academic, living in Leeds UK. 

He’s been a fan of science-fiction for over fifty years but has only recently started writing stories himself. 

Assorted examples of his speculative fiction have appeared at eastoftheweb, Bewildering Stories, Land Beyond the World, Liquid Imagination, 365Tomorrows, Literally Stories and Idle Ink. 

Alex Foster was born and bred in Melbourne, Australia. 

He has experienced everything from living overseas, to being nearly blown-up in a car. Alex has been known for hosting parties and where cops have been called in… uninvited. 

Alex currently is a first year student at Deakin University where he studies both journalism and history, and hopes to go volunteer in South America soon-ish as a newspaper intern.

Greg Bear was the author of The Unfinished Land (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021), Killing Titan (Orbit 2015), Hull Zero Three (Orbit 2010), City at the End of Time (Del Rey 2009), Mariposa (Perseus paperback November 2010), Halo: Cryptum, Halo: Primordium, and Halo: Silentium (Tor, 2011, 2012, and 2013). He was the father of two young writers, Erik and Alexandra, and is married to Astrid Anderson Bear, who has written for San Diego Noir. Sadly, he passed away in November 2022. 

John Grey is Australian born, US resident, poet. Has been published in numerous magazines including Weird Tales, Space and Time, Speculative Poetry, Christian Science Monitor, Greensboro Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Prism International, Poetry East, Agni, Poet Lore and Journal Of The American Medical Association. 

Winner of Rhysling Award for short genre poetry in 1999. 

J. W. Benford's last publication was for the literary magazine Occam's Razor. He won 2nd in the Helen Jackie DeClercq competition that same year. He lives, works, and writes in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia where camel meat is a delicacy and the princes are handsome.

When Eddie D. Moore isn’t playing with his grandchildren, he is driving and visiting strange new worlds via audiobooks, or he is lost in his imagination writing his own tales. Pick up a copy of Misfits & Oddities today! You’ll be glad you did. 

John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. 

His work has appeared in Harvard Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, gorse, DecomP, Verbatim and Bad Robot Poetry.

D.M. Woolston enjoys writing the wrongs he finds while trekking across the only planet he knows as home. He is also the indentured webmaster for his local writer's group, so that keeps his hands from becoming too idle. You can find his small slice of the Universe.

 Born and raised in the South of France, Cass Richards has been living and teaching in Toronto, Canada, for the last 17 years. 

Even though they have dozens of unfinished stories in French, it was during a creative writing course that they realized that writing in English was much more enjoyable. 

Using different pen names is also a way for them to discover more about their identity beyond the limitations of their “imposed” and established self (work, family, friends). 

 Based on Boston’s South Shore in the USA, Avram Lavinsky writes character-driven novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction. 

He has placed in the Writers of the Future contest and was a recent semifinalist in Ruminate Magazine’s VanderMey Prize competition. 

His work has appeared in or has been accepted to appear in Boston Literary Magazine, the San Antonio Review, and Mystery Tribune. 

Tim Minneci is a Columbus, Ohio-based writer, musician, and personal assistant. 

He co-hosts the weekly 1990s alternative music-centric podcast ‘Dig Me Out’ and spends as much time in the garden as possible.

 Michael Fowler has contributed stories and humor to countless zines and webzines that now are mostly defunct, among them Kittenpants and Raging Face. 

He has short science fiction stories upcoming in Schlock! and Piker Press. 

K. A. Williams has published over 110 speculative, mystery/crime, and general fiction stories in many magazines including Theme Of Absence, 365 Tomorrows, Aphelion, Mystery Tribune, Yellow Mama, Trembling With Fear, Corner Bar, Altered Reality, and The Rockford Review winning one of their Editor's Choice Awards for prose in 2009. 

In 2010, the North Carolinian began submitting poetry which was published in various magazines such as Nuthouse, The Creativity Webzine, Tigershark, and others.

Anthony D Redden is a science fiction and horror writer from England. He has been writing for over twenty-five years building up a list of publishing credits including Ether Books, Kyanite Publishing, Schlock webzine, Crystal Lake Publishing and Terror Tree Publishing to name but a few. 

He works nights as a therapy assistant and carer, and in his spare time managed to graduate from the University of Teesside in 2018 with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing. 

Jamal Hodge is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer who is a sitting Board Member of Harlem Film House and Axs Lab. Since May of 2016, Jamal Hodge's films have been an official selection in over 100 Film Festivals, and have won over 50 awards including The Vanguard Award (Best of The Fest) at the Hip Hop Film Festival (2020), Best Director at The Chelsea Film Festival (2020) and Best Director at GenreBlast (2020), screening at Tribecca Film Festal, Sundance, and others.

Devin Vandriel has been or will soon be published in Academy of the Heart and Mind; Down in the Dirt; Children, Churches, and Daddies; an Essential Anthology; and, The As You Were: The Military Review Literary Journal. 

She recently graduated with degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. 

Although dyslexic, she was encouraged to write by her 8th-grade history teacher. 

Check out her website at DevinVandriel.com

Thomas Koperwas began his professional teaching career in the high arctic working several years in Canada's Northwest Territories. 

He is at present a retiree living in Windsor, Ontario with his wife (his # 1 editor) and enjoys writing short stories of horror, crime, fantasy, and science fiction. 

His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in: Anotherealm; Jakob’s Horror Box; Literally Stories; The Literary Hatchet; Literary Veganism; Bombfire; Pulp Modern Flash; Savage Planets; Blood Moon Rising Ma

Emma Louise Gill is a British-Australian speculative fiction writer and coffee addict.

  She has two cats and two kids, all of whom strive to sit on her keyboard way too often, so she is usually found writing in random cafes instead.

Emma's short fiction has been published in AntipodeanSF and Flash Fiction Magazine, and is forthcoming in Curiouser Magazine and others.

Mike Waller is a multi-award winning author and independent publisher who has written in some form or other for many years in relation to other occupations, but has only recently turned to writing fiction. 

During his life, he has been many things, ranging from public servant to computer programmer to boat designer, and has now decided to do that for which he has a great passion. His books FALCON'S CALL and HAWK: HELLFIRE are B.R.A.G. Medallion Honorees in the genre of Science Fiction 2019 and 20

Paul Ballard is an author and security professional who writes fiction and non-fiction. 

He was born in New England and holds formal degrees in the fields of History, Security, and Law. 

Ballard’s favorite genre is Speculative and Science fiction but enjoys and practices writing in any genre.