AJ Odasso is an editor, educator, and writer currently living in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. They have been editing and writing for over twenty years and working in higher education internationally and in the US for over a decade.

AJ's full-length poetry collection, The Sting of It, was published by Tolsun Books in 2019 and won Best LGBT Book in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. Their novel, The Pursued and the Pursuing, was published by DartFrog Blue in 2021 and won second place in the Adult Historical Fiction category of the Reads Rainbow Awards. They have served as Senior Poetry Editor at Strange Horizons magazine since 2012, for which they are a six-time Hugo Award Finalist (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022).

AJ holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and is a member of the full-time English faculty at San Juan College. They are also a current PhD Candidate in Rhetoric & Writing in the Department of Language and Literature at University of New Mexico. Their research is focused around support for LGBTQIA2S+ students and implementation of disability accommodations in the composition classroom.

AJ is a member of the Reform Jewish movement. An Autistic and intersex activist, they also identify as a nonbinary member of the trans community. They have published work and served as a speaker on issues relevant to these communities.

AJ is represented by Lucy Cleland, Principal Agent​, at Calligraph Literary Agency.

Mike Allen is an author, editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy and horror. He has written, edited, or co-edited thirty-eight books, among them his forthcoming dark fantasy novel TRAIL OF SHADOWS and his new horror collection SLOW BURN.

UNSEAMING and AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, his first two volumes of horror tales, were both finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Story Collection, and his dark fable “The Button Bin” was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Another collection, THE SPIDER TAPESTRIES, contains experiments in weird science fiction and fantasy. His dark fantasy novel THE BLACK FIRE CONCERTO combines sword and sorcery with a zombie apocalypse.

As an editor and publisher, he has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award: first, for his anthology CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 5, the culmination of the Clockwork Phoenix series showcasing tales of beauty and strangeness that defy genre classification; and then, for MYTHIC DELIRIUM, the magazine of poetry and fiction he edited for twenty years.

He’s a three-time winner of the Rhysling Award for poetry. His six poetry collections include STRANGE WISDOMS OF THE DEAD, a Philadelphia Inquirer Editor’s Choice selection, and HUNGRY CONSTELLATIONS, a Suzette Haden Elgin Award nominee.

With his wife, Anita, he runs Mythic Delirium Books, based in Roanoke, Virginia. Their cat Pandora assists.

Find him on Instagram and on BlueSky via his mythicdelirium handle.

Carina Bissett is a writer, poet, and educator working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in multiple journals and anthologies including What Remains, Upon a Twice Time, Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales, Arterial Bloom, Gorgon: Stories of Emergence, Weird Dream Society, Hath No Fury, and the HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. V, VI, and VIII. She has also written stories set in shared worlds for RPGs at Green Ronin Publishing and Onyx Path Publishing. In addition to writing, she has edited several projects; the most recent is in the role as co-editor for the award-winning anthology Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas.

As an educator, Carina has taught at Pikes Peak Community College, Glendale Community College, and Arizona State University. She also participated in the Colorado Writing Project and works with educators to develop writing instruction in college and secondary school classrooms. She currently offers workshops focused on story generation at The Storied Imaginarium. Her fiction has been nominated for the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award and was a finalist for the Ron L. Hubbard Writers of the Future Awards. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Sundress Publications Best of the Net Award. In her editorial capacity, she’s received recognition as a Winner at the Colorado Book Awards 2022 (Anthology) and as a Finalist in the Fiction: Anthologies category of the 2022 International Book Awards.

Sandi Leibowitz, author of GHOST LIGHT, THE BONE-JOINER, EURYDICE SINGS, and MAGOTU AND THE LEOPARD, writes poetry and fiction for adults and children. Her works appear in Verse-Virtual, Not Very Quiet, Trouvaille Review, Liminality, Mythic Delirium, Metaphorosis, Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, New York Quarterly, Cricket, Highlights, and other online and print magazines and anthologies. Her poems have won second- and third-place Dwarf Star Awards, and been nominated for the Rhysling, Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net awards. She is the editor of Sycorax Journal, which features speculative poetry, and Sycorax Press, a micropress publishing select volumes of mythic verse. A native New Yorker, she has worked as a ghostwriter for a monsignor; as an administrative assistant at the Museum of Natural History, stationed behind the caribou diorama; and as a children's librarian.

You may visit her at In the Raven's Wood, www.sandileibowitz.com.