Jeremy Szal was born in 1995 and was raised by wild dingoes, which should explain a lot. He spent his childhood exploring beaches, bookstores, and the limits of people’s patience. He’s the author of the Common trilogy from Gollancz, a dark space opera series that includes STORMBLOOD, BLINDSPACE, and WOLFSKIN, about a drug harvested from alien DNA that makes users permanently addicted to adrenaline and aggression.

His short fiction has appeared in Nature, Abyss & Apex, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, the Drabblecast, and multiple anthologies.He was the editor for the Hugo-winning StarShipSofa until 2020 where he has worked as audio producer with George R. R. Martin, William Gibson, Harlan Ellison and others. He is represented by John Jarrold of the John Jarrold Literary Agency, and his film/TV rights are with Julie Kane-Ritsch of The Gotham Group. He holds a rather useless BA in Film Studies and Creative Writing from the University of N.S.W. e carves out a living in Sydney, Australia with his family. He loves watching weird movies, collecting boutique gins, exploring cities, cold weather, and dark humour. Find him at http://jeremyszal.com/ or @JeremySzal

Josh Brown is a writer living in Minneapolis, MN. He has dedicated his life to sporadic rants and ramblings about comic book continuity, superhero superiority, and Han shooting first. His childhood was filled with comic books and Star Wars toys. Ironically, his adulthood is filled with comic books and Star Wars toys.

I'm an award-winning (isn't everyone these days?) author and all around strange sort. If that sounds like something you'd be into, follow me on Twitter @Notagoth.

Zach Lisabeth is a Los Angeles-based speculative fiction author and Weirdo. He was born on Long Island and took a circuitous route west by way of Brooklyn, NY, Burlington, VT and Chicago, IL. He is a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop at UCSD, an experience he credits with exacerbating his Weirdness. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Gaia: Shadow & Breath vol. 2 (Pantheon Press), Burningword Literary Journal and the anthology RealLies (The Zharmae Publishing Press).

After studying classics, rhetoric, theatre, philosophy, business institutions and English, Zach graduated from Northwestern University in 2006 with a BS in Communications Studies and a transcript that reads like a choose your own adventure novel. He left Chicago immediately after graduation and never looked back, relocating to Brooklyn where his writing career began in earnest.

In August of 2010, Zach joined Americorps, serving with alternative educator Matt Schlein's Willowell Foundation through the Vermont Youth Development Corps. During his term of service, Zach regularly assisted with Matt's outdoor high school, the Walden Project, set on 200+ acres of preserved land in bucolic Monkton, VT. As a service-member, he was supposed to assist with writing instruction during the class' weekly workshop in Burlington, VT, but he admittedly learned far more than he taught. It was the Walden approach to place-based education and Matt's Thoreau-inspired pedagogy that Zach credits with solidifying his unique voice and approach to fiction.

In 2013 Zach placed in the Zharmae Publishing Press New Writers Contest with the surrealist space cult story "Onward Into Dark." "Onward" was subsequently published in Zharmae's anthology RealLies (2013). In 2014 he was accepted to the prestigious Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop at UC-San Diego where he studied with many talented and well-known writers and editors including Greg Frost, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne Valente, N.K. Jemisin, Jeff VanderMeer & Ann VanderMeer. Since Clarion, Zach's work has appeared in a number of publications, all of which are listed here.

Zach currently lives in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles with his partner Liz and zero pets. For regular updates, follow him on Twitter @zachlisabeth, Facebook and Goodreads or visit his official site: zachlisabeth.com