Beth Cato hails from Hanford, California, but currently writes and bakes cookies in a lair west of Phoenix, Arizona. She’s the Nebula Award-nominated author of A THOUSAND RECIPES FOR REVENGE from 47North (summer 2023), plus the Clockwork Dagger duology and the Blood of Earth trilogy from Harper Voyager. Her short stories can be found in publications ranging from Beneath Ceaseless Skies to Uncanny Magazine. In 2019, she won the Rhysling Award for short speculative poetry.

Beth shares her household with her husband, son, and two feline overlords. Her website BethCato.com includes not only a vast bibliography, but a treasure trove of recipes for delectable goodies. Find her on Twitter as @BethCato and Instagram as @catocatsandcheese.

Laura VanArendonk Baugh is an award-winning writer of speculative fiction, mystery, and non-fiction. Though she has hiked to the summits of extinct, dormant, and active volcanoes on several continents, not one has yet accepted her sacrifice. Her work has earned numerous accolades, including the Realm Award for Best Fantasy, a semi-finalist spot in SPFBO's Best Fantasy, and praise from Publishers Weekly.

Laura speaks professionally on everything from her day job as a professional animal trainer and behavior consultant to award-winning costuming. She enjoys travel, many kinds of geekery, fair trade chocolate, and making her imaginary friends fight each other for imaginary reasons. Find her (and free stuff!) at www.LauraVAB.com.

Stephanie A. Cain grew up in Indiana, where much of her urban fantasy is set, but unfortunately has been unable to visit Amethir or Tamnen, where her epic fantasy novels are set.

She graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Creative Writing, with a Medieval Studies minor. She has two-thirds of a Master of Library Science, but ran out of money and enthusiasm for grad school at about the same time. Despite this, her years of work in libraries were not wasted--besides having a lot of librarian friends (everyone should have at least one) she also spent a great deal of time hanging out in the stacks at 398.2, which gave rise to many of her urban fantasy stories.

Stephanie's favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Elizabeth Moon, Tamora Pierce, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Garth Nix, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and Robin McKinley.

A proud crazy cat lady, Stephanie is happily owned by Eowyn, Strider, and Eustace Clarence Scrubb. In her free time, she enjoys hiking (except for the spiders), bird-watching, visiting wineries, and collecting anything with owls on it. She likes to unwind by playing Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Skyrim on her PC. She enjoys organizing things, is overly fond of notebooks, and visits office supply stores for fun. She owns way more movie scores and fountain pens than she can actually afford.

Like a magpie, Rhonda Parrish is constantly distracted by shiny things. She’s the editor of many anthologies and author of plenty of books, stories and poems. She lives with her husband and cats in Edmonton, Alberta, and she can often be found there playing Dungeons and Dragons, bingeing crime dramas or cheering on the Oilers.

Her website, updated regularly, is at http://www.rhondaparrish.com and her Patreon, updated even more regularly, is at https://www.patreon.com/RhondaParrish.

"Rhonda Parrish is a shapeshifter with talents to match her every incarnation- magpie tenacity for picking the shiniest submissions, nightingale notes for crafting tales, and bright, feline eyes for seeking out her photographic subjects. She balances on the knife-edge of darkness and light, a sorceress of both realms." - Sara Cleto

Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran (C.S. MacCath) is a PhD candidate in Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, a playwright, and a musician. Her long-running Folklore & Fiction Project integrates these passions with a focus on folklore scholarship aimed at storytellers. Ceallaigh’s research interests include vegan animal rights activism as a public performance of ethical belief, and she brings a deep appreciation of animism, ecology, and folkloristics to her own storytelling. Work from her two fiction and poetry collections has been shortlisted for the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and nominated for the Rhysling Award. Ceallaigh's podcast radio drama “The Belt and the Necklace,” was recently produced by the Odyssey Theatre in Ottawa. She lives on Unama’ki/Cape Breton Island.

L.S. Johnson lives in Northern California and is the author of over 40 dark fiction stories. Her first collection, Vacui Magia, won the 2nd Annual North Street Book Prize and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Her second collection, Rare Birds, was longlisted for the Stoker Award and won an IPPY Medal. She is the author of the Chase & Daniels series of gothic novellas and the ongoing vampire serial Prima Materia. Find out more about her and sign up for her mailing list at http://traversingz.com/.

Jeanne has been writing since she first got her hands on a typewriter at age 9. Since then she has worked as a software developer, traveled the world, and written poetry. She is currently an archivist by day and a writer, glass artist, and fan of board games by night. She especially enjoys fantasy, science-fiction, YA, and historical fiction. She lives in Maryland with her husband, son, sister-in-law, and cat.

Alexandra Seidel is a writer and editor, a poet and dreamer. Her stories and poems of dark and fantastical things pop up here and there, a bit like mushrooms really. You can follow her on Twitter @Alexa_Seidel.

BD Wilson lives in Edmonton, AB Canada, and works primarily in the speculative fiction genre. In addition to being a regular contributor to the Alphabet Anthologies from Poise and Pen, BD publishes novellas and short story collections at setyerselfdown.com.

You can also find BD on the web at bdwilson.ca, and infrequently retweeting on Twitter (@bdwilson).

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Rachel M. Thompson is a writer, mother, and geek–not necessarily in that order–living just outside of Austin, TX. She writes short fiction to maintain her sanity while working on novel-length manuscripts, with debatable results. When not buried at the bottom of an endless pile of laundry, she might be found doing something crafty or playing board games with her boys.